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PBIS              Picco PBIS gets Honored by the MSDE for its Exemplar Status

What is PBIS?

PBIS Stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Its purpose is to create a better working and learning environment for the school and it does that by setting clear behavioral expectations for all students and staff.

PBIS is a systems approach to enhancing the capacity of schools to educate all children by developing research-based, school wide, and classroom discipline systems.  The process focuses on improving a school's ability to teach and support positive behavior for all students.  Rather than a prescribed program, PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student specific discipline plans. 

Through PBIS, there are four school wide behavioral expectations. Piccowaxen calls these the 4 Picco Paw-sitive Behaviors. These behaviors are Pride, Respect, Responsibility and Safety. Code of Conduct Matrixes, which display these four behaviors, are displayed throughout the building. 

PBIS includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for:

• ALL students, ALL staff and in ALL settings
• Non-classroom settings within the school environment
• Individual classrooms and teachers, and
• Individual student supports for the estimated 3-7% of students who present the most challenging behaviors.

Ways that Appropriate Behavior is Acknowledged:

• Picco Paws (3="Picco Pawl of Fame")
• Postcards Home for Positive Behavior.
• Panthers on the Prowl (teacher recognition of students)
• Quarterly "Big Reward" events (ie. Battle of Classes)
• Agenda Book checks (encourages responsibility)
• Peace Competition Between Grade Levels
• Picco Paw Derby (race between grades 50 paws= 1 print) 

Teaching Behavioral Expectations to All Students:

• Monthly lessons on Respect, Pride, Responsibility and Safety
• Code of Conduct Matrixes displayed throughout the building

Consequences for Violating Behavioral Expectations:

• Minor Incident Reports (3=referral)
• Office Referrals (administration)
• Loss of Privileges (reward events)

Use of PBIS Data for Decision-Making:

• Monthly Analysis of Discipline Patterns
• Recommendations/Decisions Based Upon Data

Supports Put in Place for Students with Chronic Problem Behavior:

• Check-In/Check Out program
• Student Support Team
• Mentoring Program

Positive Outcomes of a School-wide PBIS Initiative: 

• Decrease in office discipline referrals
• Increase in instructional time
• Decrease in administrative time spent on discipline
• Efficient and effective use of scarce resources
• Increase in perceived school safety
• Sustainability through team approach
• Increase in positive interactions between students/faculty

For more information on PBIS, visit one of the following websites:

• WWW.PBIS.ORG
• WWW.MARYLANDPBIS.ORG