What is PBS?

“Positive Behaviour for Success” (PBS) is a school systems approach to enhance the capacity of schools to teach and succeed with all students, especially students with social skills deficits and challenging behaviours. This is done by establishing a school-wide management framework which

• clearly defines outcomes that relate to academic and social behaviour
• has clear, consistent , durable systems that support the work of staff
• has effective efficient teaching practices that support student success
• uses relevant school data to guide decision making

 PBS is a broad range of systemic and individualised strategies for achieving important social behaviour and learning outcomes while preventing problem behaviour. PBS is an integration of:

• valued learning outcomes
• the science of human behaviour
• research validated school systems and practices
• organisational frameworks to maximise effective school systems change

 PBS is a proactive systems approach to school-wide behaviour management designed to be responsive to current social and educational challenges. It is implemented in 3 stages over a 3-5 year period.

PBS  is a process for developing whole school and individualised approaches to promoting positive behaviour to maximise learning engagement. PBS involves sustained planning, decision making, problem solving and the accurate implementation of school wide PBS elements.

PBS has a TEACHING focus where emphasis is placed on:

• Teaching behaviour expectations explicitly
• Teaching behaviour expectations like we do learning skills
• Maximising academic engagement and success
• Using teaching support to remediate behaviour errors before resorting to punishment