PB+IS

History of KCUSD PBIS:

Since 2010, Kings Canyon Unified has involved cohorts of schools in Fresno County Office of Education’s 3-year training cycle for Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports, also known as PBIS. Across the United States, educational professionals and research groups have begun to seek out more effective means of shaping student behavior. Zero Tolerance policies, which may be necessary for violent, serious, or criminal offenses on school campuses, simply do not include a process for instilling better decision making in students. Schools implementing PBIS are trained to teach behavior expectations to students, reward the abundance of positive examples students demonstrate, and intervene immediately when negative behaviors warrant negative consequences.

In 2013, the California Education Code 48900.5 was updated to include PBIS as a reasonable, useful alternative to previous practices of automatic removal from school. PBIS also involves careful school-wide monitoring and reporting of student behaviors, which is shared regularly with staff so that staff can provide feedback in adapting how consequences – positive and negative – can better serve the entire campus in providing a safe, healthy learning environment.

KCUSD Schools	Grades	Links to school site PB+IS webpages
Al Conner	K-5	PB+IS
Alta	K-5	PB+IS
Citrus	6-8	PB+IS
DLA	9-12	PB+IS
Dunlap	K-8	PB+IS
General Grant	6-8	PB+IS
Great Western	K-5	PB+IS
Jefferson	K-5	PB+IS
KCHS	9-12	PB+IS
Lincoln	K-5	PB+IS
McCord	K-5	PB+IS
Navelencia	6-8	PB+IS
OCHS	9-12	PB+IS
RHS	9-12	PB+IS
Riverview	K-8	PB+IS
RMCHS	9-12	PB+IS not yet...
Sheridan	K-5	PB+IS
Silas Bartsch	K-8	PB+IS
TL Reed	K-8	PB+IS
Washington	K-5	PB+IS

What is PB+IS @ KCUSD...

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports

PB+IS is an overarching term used to explain how schools:

Teach behavior expectations
Promote positive behavior
Respond with interventions when students don’t follow behavior expectations

PB+IS Works to “Establish a Positive Social Culture”

Student expectations are defined, taught and acknowledged
Student behavioral errors have immediate and consistent interventions, supports and/or consequences
Faculty and staff behavior is positive, predictable and consistent

PB+IS Data:

Schools routinely gather behavior data, summarize it and use it to inform decision-making

Tier 3 (Intensive Interventions)

Functional Behavior Assessment
Individual behavior plans
Individual Counseling
Parent Collaboration

Few Students need to receive Tier 3 PB+IS (When students need more than Tier 1 & 2 interventions & supports to follow expectations.)

Tier 2 (Interventions)

Check-in Check-out
Mentoring
Individual and/or small group Social Skills and/or Social Emotional Learning (Social Worker/Onsite Counselor)
Increased Parent involvement
Interventions
Data-based decision making and monitoring

Some students need to receive Tier 2 PB+IS

(When students need more than Tier 1 supports to follow expectations.)

Tier 1 (School Culture...)

Established School-wide expectations (posted)
Regular teaching of expectations
Systematic social skill teaching
School-wide recognition systems
Firm, fair and corrective responses to discipline
Evidence-based curriculum
Strong classroom management

All Students Receive Tier 1 PB+IS

Much time and support is put into teaching expectations & encouraging positive behaviors.

This is a 3 tiered pyramid. Tier 1 is the bottom and representing all students. Tier 2 is the upper middle representing some students. Tier 3 is the top tip, representing few students.

PB+IS

is the Culture & Climate of your school!

When a student doesn't understand or follow the school rules (expectations)... then schools provide Interventions & Supports

to help him or her understand and learn.

It is all about...

Relationships

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Gold Award Plaque for 2017-18