Introduction

Introduction
==Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is a data-driven behavior analytic approach to help schools to create and promote positive, respectful learning environments for all students, through encouragement and support of pro-social behaviors at various levels of the system. This is accomplished by developing consistency across staff and settings regarding expectations for student behavior, staff responses for unwanted behavior, staff responses for desired behavior, and staff responses to discipline. Through its hierarchical approach, PBS addresses a variety of issues within the realm of education, including over-representation of classified students as well as high rates of exclusion, suspension, expulsion, and out-of–district placement of students with disabilities, and those within specific racial/ethnic groups. ==

==**There are three Tiers to PBS. The purpose of Tier 1 is to create positive, respectful, and responsive learning environments for all students by developing consistency across staff and settings regarding behavioral expectations. This tier is implemented universally across the school setting. In Tier 2, the goal is early intervention and response for students who are beginning to display a chronic pattern of behavior problems, in order to decrease the need for more restrictive responses such as special education referrals, suspensions, and alternative school placements. Tier 3 is designed to provide intensive interventions for individual students who are at high-risk, based upon thorough and data-based assessment. Individual plans emphasize prevention, instruction reinforcement and quick diffusion of problem behaviors. **==


 * ==** Improvement of school climate **==


 * ==** Reduction of office referrals **==


 * ==** Reduction of number of students with chronic behavioral issues **==


 * ==** Reduction of students referred for Special Education services **==


 * ==** Increased number of students in generalized education settings **==


 * ==** Increased motivation and self-esteem for students and teachers **==


 * ==**Shift to corrective and proactive rather than punitive consequences **==


 * ==**Increased instruction time and student time on-task **==


 * ==**Increased achievement, participation, success **==