What is PBIS? Positive Behavior Intervention Supports is a process for creating a safer and more effective school environment. PBIS is a systems approach to enhancing the capacity of schools to educate all children by developing research based, school wide, and classroom discipline systems. The full implementation of this program is a three to five year process. The process focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach and support positive behavior for all students. Rather than a prescribed program, PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student specific discipline plans. PBIS includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for:
 

• All students, all staff, and in all settings
• Non-classroom settings within the school environment;
• Individual classrooms and teachers, and
• Individual student supports for the estimated 3-7 percent of students who present the most challenging behaviors. PBIS is not a program or a curriculum; it is a team-based process for systemic problem solving, planning, and evaluation.