Spending a significant amount of time in education for more than a decade has provided a wide range of experiences with various systems that establish school-wide expectations for students and staff. PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention Systems) is a common implementation being seeing in schools across the country. PBIS establishes clear expectations and routines for supporting students and staff with creating effective relationships and procedures to ensure optimal learning environments. Although PBIS has been successful in a variety of learning environments, there are situations in which PBIS has failed to reach effectiveness in supporting student needs in schools I've worked in/with. These situations may be due to a number of factors including lack of consistent implementation, lack of student involvement in the development of action plans or growth steps, and the failure to effectively teach or model desired behaviors. With the successful implementation in some environments and failure in others, I've sought out additional models to support school-wide expectations with success.
