Positive Behavior Support (PBS)
Contact:Jean Nakasato,
Educational Specialist (735-8250)

Basic to developing the Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS) is the need for a continuum of positive behavioral supports and interventions, which addresses the behavioral needs of all students. PBS has helped to build the foundation for schools to establish and sustain positive, preventive, and proactive teacher and student practices to maximize academic achievement and character development for all students.

As a result of applying the PBS process, schools are developing the local capacity to:

  1. develop proactive behavioral practices,
  2. use school discipline as an instrument for student success,
  3. formalize team-based problem solving for addressing behavioral concerns and challenges,
  4. develop a continuum of procedures for acknowledging appropriate behaviors,
  5. develop a continuum of procedures for discouraging inappropriate behaviors,
  6. have on-going monitoring and evaluation procedures,
  7. develop the local expertise and capacity of the school leadership team to address simple to complex behavioral challenges of students.