Core Component 4: Positive Behavioral Support

Two websites with extensive resources on Positive Behavioral Support (PBS) are presented first, and then websites focusing on single topics, such as restorative justice, are presented in the third section.

1. PBS Web Resources from The Response to Intervention (RTI) Action Network
   This website is dedicated to the effective implementation of RTI in school districts nationwide. National Center for Learning Disabilities.
   
   
   • Implementing a Combined RTI/PBS Model Teacher Perceptions
     Provides steps for implementation based on case studies. Includes a school climate survey form because teacher perceptions are often important.
     
     
   • Integrating Academic and Behavior Supports Within an RTI Framework
     Provides a three-part framework for the integration of academic and behavior supports for each tier of intervention in a RTI model so that teams can work smarter, not harder. (2010).
     
     
   • School-Wide Positive Behavior Support and Response to Intervention
     Implementation introduction includes examples, charts, key concepts and guiding questions. (2007).
     
     
     
2. PBS Web Resources from Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
   This website provides capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices. US Department of Education Office (ED) of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
   
   
   • School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
     Provides information, checklists, examples for teaching behavioral expectations in the same manner as any core curriculum subject.
     
     
   • Classroom PBIS Resources
     Includes case studies, lesson plans, templates, fact sheets, publications, trainings, webinars, and more.
     
     
   • High School PBIS
     Includes lessons learned from research and case studies at high school implementation sites for Tier 1 and more intensive tiers, across all core components, and with extensive examples.
     
     
   • PBIS Evaluation Tools
     Includes case Studies, and Guides to Evaluate Status and Impact of school-wide PBIS at Multiple Tiers, School-wide Evaluation Tools (SET), School-wide Self-Evaluations, Checklists, Benchmarks Tools, Planning Guides, Surveys for Schools, Home, Parents, Students, Functional Assessments, Support Plans, Management Plans, Safety Plans, Leadership Assessments, Evaluations for Tiered Systems, Leadership and more, some in Spanish.
     
     
   • PBIS Evaluation Blueprint
     Provides a framework for selecting evaluation measures and using evaluation information for active decision-making at the school, district, region, and state levels.
     
     
3. School-wide Behavioral Support Approaches from other Web Sites:
   
   
   • Behavioral Intervention Strategies and Supports
     Provides information on how to keep students in school and hold them accountable through multiple internet sites such as PBIS, restorative justice, addressing disproportionality, exemplary programs, funding sources and California discipline reform leaders contact information.
     
     
   • Blueprints: For Healthy Youth Development
     Identifies prevention and intervention programs for behavior and early literacy problems that meet a strict scientific standard of program effectiveness, and provides an internet searchable format. (2013) Annie E. Casey Foundation; University of Colorado, Boulder.
     
     
   • Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
     Using Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and various types of data collection, the results from four local schools working with members of their communities to identify tensions within school, pose new solutions, and test their effectiveness are shared as resources for other educators in culturally diverse settings, such as Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Support Matters. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
     
     
   • Check & Connect Model
     Provides information and resources for implementing a dropout prevention strategy that relies on close monitoring of school performance, such as mentoring and case management. University of Minnesota.
     
     
   • Dropout Prevention: A Practice Guide
     Provides recommendations that focus on reducing high school dropout rates. Strategies presented include identifying and advocating for at-risk students, implementing programs to improve behavior and social skills, and keeping students engaged in the school environment. National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education (ED).
     
     
   • Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom: Practice Guide
     Offers prevention, implementation, and schoolwide strategies that can be used to reduce problematic behavior that interferes with the ability of students to attend to and engage fully in instructional activities. What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education ED.
     
     
   • Restorative Practices: A Guide for Educators
     Provides a toolkit of resources that aims to help educators better understand what restorative practices are and how they foster safe learning environments through community building and constructive conflict resolution. Opportunity to Learn Campaign, Advancement Project, American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association.
     
     
   • School-Based Mental Health
     Includes social emotional learning, school-wide prevention systems and treatment options for youth with more intensive mental health challenges.