PBIS

PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) is a process for creating safer and more effective schools.  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. 

Primary Prevention

Primary Prevention involves system-wide efforts to prevent new cases of a condition or disorder. As a system-wide Primary Prevention effort in schools, positive behavior support consists of rules, routines, and physical arrangements that are developed and taught by school staff to prevent initial occurrences of problem behavior.

For example, to prevent injuries to students caused by running in hallways, schools may develop Primary Preventions by 1) establishing and teaching the rule, “walk in the hallways;” 2) creating a routine in which staff station themselves in the hallways during transition times to supervise the movement of pupils; or 3) altering the physical arrangement, such as making sure that an adult is with any group of students when they are in the hallways.

To learn more about Primary Primary, review these "Primary Prevention: Frequently Asked Questions."

The CORE Team

CORE Team is a professional learning community that uses problem-solving processes to provide secondary and tertiary students who present academic and/or behavioral challenges that cannot be solved by the classroom teacher or a teacher team.  In some cases, the CORE team will address concerns of student groups; at other times, it will address individual students.

PBIS Resources on the Web

To learn more about PBIS, please visit these websites.

• www.PBIS.org
• www.cber.org
• www.SWIS.org
• www.PBISMaryland.org
• www.PBSSurveys.org

PBIS in CCSD Schools

See information on CCSD's exemplar PBIS schools.

To learn more about how PBIS is implemented in Charleston County public schools, please contact Dr. Bob Stevens.