.:: 8 Features of PBIS ::.

1. It is a proactive systems approach to school-wide discipline designed to be responsive to current social and educational challenges.
2. It is based on three levels of prevention (a) primary (b) secondary, and (c) tertiary.
3. It is not a curriculum, discipline package, or product,...but a process for individualized and sustained decision making, planning, and problem solving.
4. It has an instructional focus where emphasis is placed on:
1. Teaching behavioral expectations directly
2. Teaching social behaviors like academic skills.
3. Maximizing academic engagement and success.
4. Considering the influence of instructional support.
5. It is based on empirically sound practices and applications in schools.  Research that is trustworthy, accessible, and usable.
6. It uses data to guide intervention and management decisions.
7. It increases the contextual fit between the problem context and what we know works.
8. It establishes a continuum of behavioral support.