PBIS

Schools that implement school-wide systems of positive behavior support focus on taking a team-based system approach and teaching appropriate behavior to all students in the school. Schools that have been successful in building school-wide systems develop procedures to accomplish the following:

      1. Behavioral Expectations are Defined. A small number of clearly defined behavioral expectations are defined in positive, simple, rules. Reedley High School’s Pirate Pride Commitments are:
         Respect for self, others and surroundings
         Honorable to self and others
         Success for All

      2. Behavioral Expectations are Taught. The behavioral expectations are taught to all students on campus, and are taught in real contexts. Teaching appropriate behavior involves much more than simply telling students what behaviors they should avoid. Specific behavioral examples are:

• Being respectful means raising your hand when you want to speak or get help.
• Being respectful means using a person’s name when you talk to him or her.
• Being respectful means following dress code guidelines.
• Being honorable means to be on time.
• Being honorable means cleaning up after yourself.
• Being successful means to be prepared with assignments and materials.
• Being successful means to follow and respond appropriately to adult direction.
• Being successful means using appropriate language in and out of the classroom.

Behavioral expectations are taught using the same teaching formats applied to other curricula. The general rule is presented, the rationale for the rule is discussed, positive examples (“right way”) are described and rehearsed, and negative examples (“wrong way”) are described and modeled. Students are given an opportunity to practice the “right way” until they demonstrate fluent performance.

      3.  Appropriate Behaviors are Acknowledged. Once appropriate behaviors have been defined and taught, they need to be acknowledged on a regular basis. RHS has designed a formal system that rewards positive behaviors. “Caught demonstrating Pirate Pride” are immediate forms used by the individual teacher, as a tool of encouragement and a student motivator. “Pirate Bucks” are awarded to encourage and reinforce positive behaviors demonstrated on a consistent basis.
     4.  Behavioral Errors are Corrected Proactively. When students violate behavioral expectations, clear procedures are needed for providing information to them that their behavior was unacceptable, and preventing that unacceptable behavior from resulting in inadvertent rewards. Students, teachers, and administrators all should be able to predict what will occur when behavioral errors are identified.

In general, SWPBIS emphasizes four integrated elements: (a) data for decision making, (b) measurable outcomes supported and evaluated by data, (c) practices with evidence that these outcomes are achievable, and (d) systems that efficiently and effectively support implementation of these practices.

These four elements are guided by six important principles:

• Develop a continuum of scientifically based behavior and academic interventions and supports.
• Use data to make decisions and solve problems
• Arrange the environment to prevent the development and occurrence of problem behavior
• Teach and encourage pro-social skills and behaviors
• Implement evidence-based behavioral practices with fidelity and accountability
• Screen universally and monitor student performance & progress continuously

Reedley High School will provide a positive, safe, healthy, nurturing and respectful environment in which all students have the opportunity to progress academically and to become productive members of society.  PBIS aims to decrease behavioral infractions showing year-over-year improvement. PBIS assists towards this end as it is based upon the concept of teaching behaviors that will prevent noncompliance. We will provide this through the implementation of PBIS, which promotes the following:

• Development of clearly defined and consistent student expectations            and accountabilities which reflect RHS’s themes;
   
  •         Respect for self, others and surroundings
  •         Honorable to self and others
  •         Success for All
     
• Communication and collaboration between administration, staff,                families and community.
• Maintenance of an open ended flexible approach through the use of a            data driven informational system.
• Educationally sound methods that foster student character, safety,                  academic excellence and individual citizenship.
   

Classroom Teacher Responsibilities

  1. Teachers will define, teach, model, and practice each of the Pirate Pride behavioral expectations.
  2. Teachers will display and use the classroom expectations based upon the Pirate Pride expectations. (Classroom expectations are to be posted in the classroom)
  3. Teachers will implement targeted classroom interventions consistently and with fidelity every day.
  4. Teachers will develop and/or use PBIS established strategies for recognizing students who meet and/or exceed Pirate Pride behaviors school-wide and classroom expectations using informal and formal recognition programs such as Positive Pirate Points, and Best on the Ship nominations.
 

Staff Personnel Responsibilities

  1. Staff personnel are defined as all adults with supervisory authority, including those assigned to hall duty, lunch duty, bus duty, and all teachers whose students are in attendance at assemblies.
  2. All classroom teachers are involved as supervisors at various points within the school day and/or school year.
  3. Staff personnel will circulate among students and observe students to see that they are meeting school-wide expectations in all non-classroom settings of the school.
  4. Staff personnel will talk with students and provide feedback based on the school -wide expectations.
  5. Staff personnel will develop and/or use PBIS established strategies for recognizing students who meet and/or exceed school-wide and classroom expectations such as Positive Pirate Points.