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106 Hancock Road
Peterborough, NH 03458
phone 603-924-3336
fax 603-924-6707
PBIS:
A major ongoing goal within the ConVal School district is to: “Create an environment that is safe and conducive to learning for all students and staff”. Toward achievement of this goal each school has a positive behavior expectation plan in place. Five ConVal schools have adopted the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework.
For additional information and about your child's school plan please visit the school web site.
What is PBIS?
Why Focus on Behavior?
How is PBIS Different from Other Discipline Systems?
What is Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)?
PBIS is a comprehensive, 3-tiered approach to implementing positive and consistent student discipline systems in schools and preschools. Unlike other approaches to student discipline, PBIS encourages a positive climate school wide by focusing systematically on the general school population, students at risk and students with intensive or chronic behavioral and emotional problems. PBIS also recognizes that student discipline systems, including the definitions of and responses to problem behavior, need to be consistent across classroom and non-classroom settings; thus, PBIS complements and extends the approach used in other programs such as Responsive Classroom.
Why Focus on Behavior?
Poor behavior in school can be costly to students and teachers alike.
• Lost teaching time
• Property damage
• Disrespect, discouragement, frustration
• Low student/staff morale
• Lower academic outcomes
• Divisions between administrators, teachers and parents
Addressing behavioral issues and improving school climate should form the core of any school improvement plan.
How is PBIS Different from Other Discipline Systems?
Typical discipline systems in schools have often relied on reaction to negative behavior and punishment of the offender. Hundreds of studies have shown, however, that this approach does little to reduce chronic misbehavior, nor does it produce positive long-term outcomes for school or student. The PBIS method of student discipline is based on four key principles:
1. Prevention - Correct behaviors are established, taught, modelled and acknowledged in a systematic way throughout the school. Students are "caught" engaging in the desired behaviors, and this behavior is regularly reinforced and recognized.
2. Response - The response to undesirable behavior is organized, systematic, consistent and careful. Considerable thought and effort goes into getting the entire school community on the same page with respect to common definitions of, and the most effective response to, problem behaviors.
3. Data-driven - Discipline data is collected school-wide in a user-friendly format. Entered and analyzed in an established on-line database provided for school use, the data provides guidance for understanding when and where problem behavior is more likely to occur. Strategies to address behaviors in these situations are developed, and the data then provides evidence for whether these strategies are working.
4. Process - PBIS is not a pre-packaged program. Rather, it is a framework that guides the school community through a process of addressing the unique culture, climate and behavioral issues within each school. The idea is to work smarter, not harder, to improve behavior and school climate.
Please visit individual school web sites or contact the following schools for additional information.
ConVal High School (CVHS)
Dublin Consolidated School (DCS)
Peterborough Elementary School (PES)
Pierce Elementary School (BES)
South Meadow Middle School (SMS)
Antrim Elementary School (AES)
First Friends, Antrim (FF-A)
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