What is PBIS?
What is PBIS?
PBIS is a research-based decision-making framework that explicitly teaches students behavioral expectations, acknowledges and celebrates those who demonstrate consistent, socially appropriate positive behavior, and provides interventions to those students in need.
Our PBIS program aligns with our core values: Respect, Responsibility, and Safety. Students who demonstrate these values are rewarded in many ways. On Class Dojo, students can earn individual points for prizes and a chance to win our raffle. Whole classes also earn rewards in their classrooms and cafeteria.
Please talk with your student at home about our core values and PBIS program. We would love to hear your feedback on how to improve it. Together, we can foster change in our school and our community!
For more information about PBIS and what it is, please click here for an article.
A Parent’s Guide To Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports
Intervention and Support
As a PBIS school, we recognize that not all students have the skills to demonstrate our core values on a consistent basis. A part of the PBIS process is providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention and supports to these students. If students are in need of additional supports, we will be working with them to re-teach our behavioral expectations based on our core values of Respect, Responsibility, Safety, and Leadership.
In addition to being a PBIS school, we are also working with the Responsive classroom approach to teaching. Responsive Classroom is an approach that believes how children learn is as important as what children learn. We will be working to include “engaging academics, positive community, effective management, and developmental awareness.
Parent Communication Students, with teacher guidance, will be communicating their successes with home each day. Their successes may be about a behavior, social, and/or academic successes that they experienced throughout the day.
Minor Incident Report (MIR) This is a teacher-managed consequence given to a student when they have not followed one or more of the school-wide expectations. Chronic MIR’s may lead to an Office Discipline Referral (ODR).
Office Discipline Referral (ODR) This is a discipline report that is handled by school administration and goes into the student’s cumulative school file.
Reflective Sheet This is a teacher-managed document for students to use if they needed to reflect on a behavior displayed in the classroom.
It is our goal to help each child reach their full potential here at GMES. Together, with your help, we can promote a positive learning environment!
Here are a few of our Gilpin Manner expectations:
