PBIS--Behavior Management
PBIS IN OUR SCHOOL
AES will be implementing a new positive discipline program this year known as PBIS or Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Our goal is to teach standard expectations or behaviors and celebrate positive behaviors in our school. Rewards are used to celebrate and reinforce the great demonstrated behaviors.
THREE BASIC RULES
We have Three basic school rules:
Act Responsibly
Be Engaged
Be Safe
Many elements are in place to promote our use of these rules in our school and classroom.
PBIS BEHAVIOR MATRIX
Throughout our building are PBIS Behavior Matrix posters. These posters define expected building behaviors. (See the matrix below)
INDIVIDUAL REINFORCEMENT
To track and reinforce student behaviors we use a clip chart system. This is also hanging in each homeroom classroom. Each student has a clip with their name on or their number on it. The clips are placed on the white square which means “Ready to Learn”. This is a great place to be! Ready to Learn means I am following the behavior matrix and I am doing what I am supposed to do. However, throughout the day students may move up or down the clip system based on their behaviors.
For positive behaviors, students can move up the clip system one step at a time from green (good day), to Blue (Great Job), to Purple (Outstanding!). Behaviors may include helping others, picking up messes one did not create, using manners, getting ready right away without reminders, recognition by others for great choices, etc.
One may also move down the clip system one step at a time. Moving to yellow (Think About It) to orange (Options) to red (Contact Home). Yellow indicates I have not been making good choices, have been given warnings, and still am not making good choices – I need to think about it. Orange indicates I have continued to make bad choices, therefore, I must clip down and the teacher may decide the type of consequence I need: walking laps, a time-out in ISS or silent lunch. Red indicates a contact home. Any behaviors after this are referred to the office.
It is very important to note that students can move up and down the clip chart one step at a time throughout the day!!! If a student is asked to clip down, but turns around their behavior, they can clip up. At the end of the day, each student’s behavior will be noted in the planner.
OFFICE REFERRAL PROCESS/PROCEDURES
Student clips to red
Office referral completed and sent to office with student
Administration meets with student and consequence is assigned
Copy of referral sent home with student
Copy of referral sent to teacher
IN SCHOOL SUSPENSION (ISS)
• Opportunity for student to process action and problem solve how to change behavior
• Staffed by teacher assistant every day
REWARDS/INCENTIVES
Angel Bucks
Angel bucks will be given school-wide to reinforce positive behaviors. The angel bucks will be color coded: classroom teachers will use yellow, administration will use white, and encore teachers will use blue. The bucks will be given out on an individual basis as the behaviors correlate to the AES Behavior Matrix. Any students that ends the day in the good day, great job, or outstanding tiers will receive one angel buck for that day.
Angel Store
Students will have the opportunity to exchange angel bucks for rewards on a weekly basis. They may exchange as many bucks as they choose or decide to bank them to save for a greater reward at a later date.
PBIS IN OUR SCHOOL
AES will be implementing a new positive discipline program this year known as PBIS or Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Our goal is to teach standard expectations or behaviors and celebrate positive behaviors in our school. Rewards are used to celebrate and reinforce the great demonstrated behaviors.
THREE BASIC RULES
We have Three basic school rules:
Act Responsibly
Be Engaged
Be Safe
Many elements are in place to promote our use of these rules in our school and classroom.
PBIS BEHAVIOR MATRIX
Throughout our building are PBIS Behavior Matrix posters. These posters define expected building behaviors. (See the matrix below)
INDIVIDUAL REINFORCEMENT
To track and reinforce student behaviors we use a clip chart system. This is also hanging in each homeroom classroom. Each student has a clip with their name on or their number on it. The clips are placed on the white square which means “Ready to Learn”. This is a great place to be! Ready to Learn means I am following the behavior matrix and I am doing what I am supposed to do. However, throughout the day students may move up or down the clip system based on their behaviors.
For positive behaviors, students can move up the clip system one step at a time from green (good day), to Blue (Great Job), to Purple (Outstanding!). Behaviors may include helping others, picking up messes one did not create, using manners, getting ready right away without reminders, recognition by others for great choices, etc.
One may also move down the clip system one step at a time. Moving to yellow (Think About It) to orange (Options) to red (Contact Home). Yellow indicates I have not been making good choices, have been given warnings, and still am not making good choices – I need to think about it. Orange indicates I have continued to make bad choices, therefore, I must clip down and the teacher may decide the type of consequence I need: walking laps, a time-out in ISS or silent lunch. Red indicates a contact home. Any behaviors after this are referred to the office.
It is very important to note that students can move up and down the clip chart one step at a time throughout the day!!! If a student is asked to clip down, but turns around their behavior, they can clip up. At the end of the day, each student’s behavior will be noted in the planner.
OFFICE REFERRAL PROCESS/PROCEDURES
Student clips to red
Office referral completed and sent to office with student
Administration meets with student and consequence is assigned
Copy of referral sent home with student
Copy of referral sent to teacher
IN SCHOOL SUSPENSION (ISS)
• Opportunity for student to process action and problem solve how to change behavior
• Staffed by teacher assistant every day
REWARDS/INCENTIVES
Angel Bucks
Angel bucks will be given school-wide to reinforce positive behaviors. The angel bucks will be color coded: classroom teachers will use yellow, administration will use white, and encore teachers will use blue. The bucks will be given out on an individual basis as the behaviors correlate to the AES Behavior Matrix. Any students that ends the day in the good day, great job, or outstanding tiers will receive one angel buck for that day.
Angel Store
Students will have the opportunity to exchange angel bucks for rewards on a weekly basis. They may exchange as many bucks as they choose or decide to bank them to save for a greater reward at a later date.