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Checklist for Analyzing Discipline Policies and Procedures for Equity (CADPPE)

equity
The CADPPE can help identify policies and procedures emphasizing proactive, evidence-based strategies to support students’ social-emotional-behavioral and academic needs. The CADPPE can also help the district leadership team identify reactive, punitive policies for review and revision.
Last Updated:
10/2/2024

Resources to Support Systematic Screening in K-12 Schools

data-based-decision-making
school-wide
Assessment
Behavior
Screening
Tier 1
Systematic screening is a proactive way to inform instruction across the tiers of PBIS, including how to look for students who might be in need of additional support beyond what is offered at Tier 1 and to assess overall levels of student performance at the school. This infographic provides an overview of screening resources developed for district leaders, educators, communities, and families to support systematic screening efforts along with links to download each resource from pbis.org. 
Last Updated:
9/11/2024

Plan for Creating Effective Schoolwide Environments Template

coaching
school-wide
Behavior
Climate
Implementation
PBIS Foundations
Social skills
Tier 1
School leadership teams can download this template and create their own plan to teach schoolwide expectations. The template includes opportunity to develop a schoolwide teaching matrix, create lesson plans to teach expected behavior across settings, including non-classroom settings, script prompts or reminders for desired behavior, and plan praise and corrections within and across all settings.
Last Updated:
9/3/2024
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Lesson Plan: Co-creating Classroom Expectations with Students (Elementary Schools)

classroom-pbis
equity
school-wide
Implementation
PBIS Foundations
Tier 1
Trauma
Youth Voice
The purpose of this lesson is to partner with elementary students to create a classroom matrix together, based on existing schoolwide expectations.
Last Updated:
10/3/2023

TIPS Fidelity Checklist Tier 2—Brief

data-based-decision-making
Fidelity
Implementation
Targeted
Tier 2
Tier 3
TIPS
The Team Initiated Problem Solving Fidelity Checklist Tier 2 (TIPS-FC -T2) is a progress-monitoring tool for a team and their coach to use as a guide for planning, implementing, and sustaining best practice meeting foundations and using data for problem solving and decision-making for teams coordinating and implementing supplemental and intensive supports.
Last Updated:
4/7/2022

TIPS District Readiness Checklist

data-based-decision-making
Fidelity
Implementation
Systems Alignment
Training
TIPS
This checklist identifies critical district-level system features that will help support initial adoption and ongoing sustainability of TIPS. This checklist can be used as a self-assessment or coaching tool prior to a district adopting and implementing the TIPS model.
Last Updated:
4/7/2022

TIPS School Readiness Checklist

data-based-decision-making
Fidelity
Implementation
Systems Alignment
Training
TIPS
This checklist identifies critical school-level system features that will help support initial adoption and ongoing sustainability of TIPS. This checklist can be used as a self-assessment or coaching tool prior to a district adopting and implementing the TIPS model.
Last Updated:
4/7/2022

Tiered Decision Guidelines for Social, Behavioral, and Academic Behavior: Guidance for Establishing Data-Based Teams Across the Tiers

coaching
data-based-decision-making
school-wide
Fidelity
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
TIPS
The decision making guidelines outlined, are organized with academic, behavioral, and social student outcomes in mind. The purposes of data-based teams across the tiers are described and a set of decision guidelines, decision-making cycles, and goals/benchmarks are provided for each team. Guiding questions for systems implementation are also provided.
Last Updated:
3/10/2022

Family Resources

family
Behavior
Individual
Intensive
Special education
Tier 3
Family, school, and community members are critical partners in developing an effective and responsive support system where all benefit. The OSEP Technical Assistance Center on PBIS has developed several resources to support these partnerships.
Last Updated:
1/7/2022

Screening Resources

school-wide
districtstate-pbis
data-based-decision-making
Screening
Behavior
Training
This resource provides a list of presentations, videos, webinars, articles and websites that give an overview to universal screening as well as more in-depth resources that answer the what and the how.
Last Updated:
10/28/2020
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References for the Evidence Base of PBIS

data-based-decision-making
districtstate-pbis
school-wide
Assessment
Research
Tier 1
This spreadsheet is a searchable reference list for selected studies regarding PBIS and its effectiveness.
Last Updated:
9/8/2020
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Spreadsheet

Tips for Communicating with Your Community about Systematic Screening: What does your district and school leadership team need to know?

school-wide
districtstate-pbis
data-based-decision-making
Screening
Behavior
Training
This resource provides a list of presentations, videos, webinars, articles and websites that give an overview to universal screening as well as more in-depth resources that answer the what and the how.
Last Updated:
5/8/2020
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The Student/Teacher Game

classroom-pbis
school-wide
Behavior
The Student/Teacher Game is a quick and easy strategy to prompt and acknowledge students for following expectations in the classroom. The Game encourages appropriate behaviors by “catching” students engaged in expected behaviors and has been shown in research and practice to improve behavior.
Last Updated:
2/5/2020

The Interconnected Systems Framework 201: When School Mental Health is Integrated within a Multi-tiered System of Support

mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF)
Systems Alignment
This series to deepen knowledge and understanding of the ISF by highlighting key features illustrated by case examples that reflect the diversity of school communities in the region and demonstrate how data-based decision making occurs in a local context. This fact sheet will focus on the core features of an ISF approach.
Last Updated:
8/8/2019

Fact Sheet—Interconnected Systems Framework 101: An Introduction

mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF)
Alignment
An introduction to the Interconnected Systems Framework including a review of the benefits
Last Updated:
8/8/2019

Fact Sheet ISF 201—When School Mental Health is Integrated within a MTSS: What's Different

mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF)
Alignment
Describes what will be different for educators andmental health providers when school mental health is integrated into a Multi-Tiered System of Support
Last Updated:
8/8/2019

Fact Sheet ISF 301: Installing an Integrated Approach

mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Alignment
Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF)
Describes how to use school and community data to determine what interventions to select and implement to meet the diverse needs of all students
Last Updated:
8/8/2019

Systematic Screening Tools: Universal Behavior Screeners

data-based-decision-making
school-wide
Screening
Assessment
A compilation of various screener tools used to assess behavior, social, and/or academic risk.
Last Updated:
5/18/2019

PBIS: A Brief Introduction and FAQ

school-wide
PBIS Foundations
Systems Alignment
An introductory document of PBIS and the PBIS Center. PBIS is clarified and common misconceptions have been addressed.
Last Updated:
6/29/2018

Resources for Facility-wide PBIS Implementation in Juvenile Corrections and Residential Settings/Facilities: From Adoption Consideration to Initial Implementation to Sustained Implementation

juvenile-justice
PBIS Foundations
Taking the lead from the many juvenile and residential facility staff and teams we work with across the country who ask for resources for their teams and staff, we have organized this FW-PBIS resource list by those resources addressing all tiers, Tier 1, Tier II, Tier III, tools, websites, journal special issues, conferences-professional development, and voices from the field in alphabetical order.
Last Updated:
2/13/2018

Consider Context: Implementation in Secondary Schools

high-school-pbis
Tool to guide implementation adaptations to High School Context
Last Updated:
1/1/2018
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Tier 1 Coordination and Problem Solving Team Meeting Foundations

data-based-decision-making
Tier 1
Implementation
TIPS
Defines the purpose, members, schedule, and decision guidelines of a Tier 1 school team.
Last Updated:
9/18/2017
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Pyramid Equity Project: Defining Disproportionate Discipline—Understanding Common Measures

early-childhood-pbis
equity
Assessment
Defining risk ratio, risk index, and how those are used in reporting.
Last Updated:
3/16/2017

Social Emotional and Behavioral Screening Instruments

districtstate-pbis
mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Assessment
List of social emotional and behavioral screening instruments separated by age to be used with children.
Last Updated:
1/18/2017

Implementing the Pyramid Model to Address Inequities in Early Childhood Discipline

early-childhood-pbis
equity
Ethnicity
Overview of early childhood suspension rates and how the pyramid model is addresses inequities in early childhood discipline.
Last Updated:
1/1/2017

Tips for Responding to Challenging Behavior in Young Children

early-childhood-pbis
Behavior
There are several strategies you can use when responding to challenging behavior but these should always be combined with more intentional promotion and prevention practices. The use of these response strategies is intended to reduce the likelihood of challenging behavior, but will not be effective without careful and intentional attention to teaching social skills and emotional competencies.
Last Updated:
1/1/2017

Embedding Mental Health into SWPBIS ISF Practice Guide

mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF)
Alignment
This paper serves as a summary document from the Mental Health presentation strand and Roundtable Discussion for the Interconnected Systems Framework that took place at the 2016 Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Leadership Forum in Rosemont, Illinois. It was developed based on input and discussion from presenters and participants at both the sessions and RDQ session. Its purpose is to share strategies to effectively implement ISF by outlining its rationale, procedures for implementation, a site implementation example, frequently asked questions about ISF, and additional resources. The authors aim to provide practitioners, leaders, and policy makers with a useful guide to implement the ISF, so as to best provide mental health services to children, families, and community members.
Last Updated:
12/1/2016

Supporting Children & Families during a Difficult Time

early-childhood-pbis
Social relationships
Climate
Many early educators and program leaders are concerned about the impact of the recent election on children and families. Young children might have been witness to disturbing media, heated conversations between adults, and/or reports of community unrest. Some children might be confused, feel anxious, or have behavioral issues in the classroom. Some families might be feeling vulnerable or concerned about anticipated changes in national policies, national protests, and reports of community violence. The following are suggestions for program leaders and practitioners for addressing potential issues and supporting young children and their families.
Last Updated:
11/1/2016

TIPS Fidelity Checklist

data-based-decision-making
coaching
TIPS
Fidelity
The Team Initiated Problem Solving Fidelity Checklist (TIPS-FC) is a progress-monitoring tool for a team and their coach to use as a guide for planning, implementing, and sustaining best practice meeting foundations and using data for problem solving and decision-making.
Last Updated:
10/26/2016
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The Pyramid Equity Project: Promoting Social Emotional Competence and Addressing Disproportionate Discipline in Early Childhood Programs

early-childhood-pbis
Systems Alignment
This fact sheet was developed to raise awareness of the issue of implicit bias and preschool suspensions/expulsions. The purpose is to provide information to change adult responses to challenging behaviors in order to reduce preschool suspensions/expulsions and create safe and nurturing environments for young children, particularly children of color.
Last Updated:
9/1/2016

Tier 2 Systems Readiness Guide

school-wide
districtstate-pbis
Tier 2
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to district- and school-based leadership teams that are considering implementation of Tier 2 systems. This document is not intended to be a prescriptive list of requirements and individual decisions about school readiness. Tier 2 implementation decisions should be based on the local context and in coordination with local coaches and TA providers.
Last Updated:
5/13/2016
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Referral Form Definitions

data-based-decision-making
Behavior
Tier 1
Mutually exclusive definitions for terms used on referral forms.
Last Updated:
5/5/2016

ISF Action Planning Companion Guide to SWPBIS-TFI

mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF)
Fidelity
Alignment
A tool to assist schools in implementing and using Tiered Fidelity Inventory to enhance current implementation to include ISF approach.
Last Updated:
2/1/2016
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TIPS Meeting Minutes Template

data-based-decision-making
TIPS
Action plan
Fidelity
Meeting form to be used by school teams using the Team Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) method. Useful for keeping the conversation focused to problem solving. Meeting minutes serve as documentation and guidance for decisions made during problem-solving and/or coordination/planning team meeting includes sections and prompts to guide and prompt recording of relevant, accurate, and succinct information across the following areas: demographics, systems status update, problem solving, action planning, evaluation, and housekeeping items
Last Updated:
10/6/2015
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Data Analyst's Worksheet

data-based-decision-making
Action plan
TIPS
A worksheet to be used by the data analyst role before a team meeting using the Team Initiated Problem Solving Framework (TIPS). Use your academic or behavior data to create a snapshot view of your school’s performance overall (e.g., by grade level, intervention status, race/ethnicity, gender).
Last Updated:
4/1/2015
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The High School Behavior Education Program (2nd edition)

high-school-pbis
Academics
Tier 2
Social skills
Academic Seminar is a 45 minute daily class designed to address work avoidance behaviors for middle and high school students at risk of poor school outcomes. The curriculum targets teaching, practicing and reinforcing organizational and self-advocacy skills, termed “academic self-management.”
Last Updated:
2/18/2015

Description of Wraparound and Case Example with Suggested Readings

mental-healthsocial-emotional-well-being
Intensive
Wraparound has become a predominant tool for implementing interagency systems of care. The system of care concept was developed in the mid-1980s as a response to (a) a dearth of mental health and other services for students; (b) the fragmentation of services across mental health, education, child welfare and juvenile justice services; and (c) the history of poor outcomes for students with emotional disturbance and their families. The key idea behind the development of a system of care was a coordinated network of community-based services that is organized to meet student and family needs rather than agency needs.
Last Updated:
4/9/2014

Classroom Family Engagement Rubric

family
classroom-pbis
This tool provides specific guidance on steps teachers can take to improve family engagement at the classroom level.
Last Updated:
2/27/2014

Education and Treatment of Children

equity
juvenile-justice
PBIS Foundations
Tier 1
Special Issue: PBIS as Prevention for High-Risk Youth in Alternative Education, Residential and Juvenile Justice settings. The goal of this special issue is to provide empirical and practical information on the PBIS framework to educators and a wide-range of service providers (e.g., behavior specialists, counselors, mental health, advocacy, and policy organization personnel) who work with high-risk youth in AE, residential and JJ setting to improve youth outcomes and teacher effectiveness.
Last Updated:
8/1/2013

Bullying Prevention in PBIS: Expect Respect (Middle & High School Level)

bullying-prevention
high-school-pbis
school-wide
Implementation
Social relationships
The purpose of this handbook is to improve the success of schools as effective learning environments.
Last Updated:
2/18/2013

Restorative Questions

classroom-pbis
school-wide
Restorative Practices
Restorative question card formatted to print. Questions used to respond to challenging behavior and to help those harmed by other’s actions.
Last Updated:
9/11/2012

Bully Prevention Manual (Elementary Level)

bullying-prevention
school-wide
Behavior
Implementation
Social relationships
This handbook focuses on reducing bullying behavior through the blending of school-wide positive behavior support, explicit instruction, and a redefinition of the bullying construct.
Last Updated:
8/30/2012

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: History, Defining Features, and Misconceptions

districtstate-pbis
coaching
PBIS Foundations
This resources provides a historical look at PBIS as well as clears up some common misconceptions about PBIS.
Last Updated:
6/19/2012

Classroom Problem Solving

school-wide
classroom-pbis
Tier 2
Some students do not respond to tier 1 universal academic and behavioral instruction. These students who need additional support display minor and fewer major misbehaviors than students getting tier 3 supports. The goal is to provide support to these students to meet their needs, to keep them in class learning and to avoid escalation to more intensive services. This is a manual for implemting tier 2 supports in the classroom.
Last Updated:
6/1/2012

A Descriptive Study of Office Disciplinary Referrals in High Schools

high-school-pbis
Discipline
Behavior
PBIS Foundations
The purpose of this paper is to share descriptive data about Office Discipline Referrals (ODRs) in a sample of 112 high schools that used the School-wide Information System (SWIS) database to collect discipline data during the 2005-2006 academic year.The findings were that tardies, defiance/disrespect and skip/truancy were the most common types of ODRs generated at the high school level. Those in the freshman class were the most likely of all students to receive an ODR, and the majority of those students who generated multiple referrals requiring intensive behavior supports (e.g., 6 or more ODRs), did so by mid-winter of the academic year.
Last Updated:
12/15/2011

MTSS Implementation Components: Ensuring Common Language and Understanding

districtstate-pbis
coaching
school-wide
PBIS Foundations
Implementation
Fidelity
A guide offering definitions for the various components of a multi-tiered system of support. These definitions may serve as a place for schools and districts to develop common language for their own implementation.
Last Updated:
12/1/2011

Reducing the Effectiveness of Bullying Behavior in Schools

bullying-prevention
school-wide
Alignment
Implementation
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of how school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) as a framework for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and relevance of practices to prevent school violence and bullying behavior, in particular. This overview is organized around eight questions.
Last Updated:
4/19/2011

Practical Functional Behavioral Assessment Training Manual for School-Based Personnel

school-wide
students-with-disabilities
FBA/BIP/BSP
Tier 2
Tier 3
This participant’s guide presents specific procedures for school-based personnel to conduct practical functional behavioral assessments (FBA). Practical FBA training methods presented in this workbook are designed to train school-based personnel with flexible roles in a school (i.e. personnel not directly responsible for providing regular instruction for students). The Practical FBA training methods are specifically designed for use with students that exhibit consistent problems that are not dangerous and have not been adequately addressed through previous assessment and intervention.
Last Updated:
10/17/2010

Evidence­ based Classroom Management: Moving from Research to Practice

classroom-pbis
Tier 1
PBIS Foundations
Critical Features of Classroom Management: easy to follow list
Last Updated:
10/1/2010

Tiered Interventions in High Schools: Using Primary Lessons Learned to Guide Ongoing Discussion

high-school-pbis
school-wide
Alignment
Implementation
This report summarizes what we have learned thus far and how those lessons learned can advance the ongoing discussion about effective RTI implementation in high schools.
Last Updated:
5/1/2010

The High School Behavior Education Program (HS-BEP): A Secondary Level Intervention

high-school-pbis
Social skills
Academics
Tier 2
The HS-BEP is a secondary level intervention for high school students designed to decrease the instructional “punishers” a student is experiencing by providing explicit instruction in organizational, self-management skills, and homework completion assistance and increase positive adult interaction and specific behavioral prompts through use of the HS-BEP Card, a daily behavior report card.
Last Updated:
9/12/2009
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Safety without Suspensions

school-wide
Discipline
PBIS Foundations
Disruptive behavior consistently tops the list of teachers' and parents' concerns about education. ln an effort to address this concern, many U.S. schools began adopting zero-tolerance policies in the 1990s, which led to substantial increases m out-of-school suspensions and expulsions. These policies have sparked controversy because of racial disparities in suspension and expulsion rates, as well as incidents in which students have been suspended or expelled for seemingly trivial infractions, such as making a paper gun. If, as research suggests, exclusionary, zero-tolerance approaches to school discipline are not the best way to create a safe climate, how can school leaders maintain discipline and safety7 School-wide Positive Behavior Support is one effective, positive approach.
Last Updated:
9/1/2008

Positive Solutions for Families: Eight Practical Tips for Parents of Young Children with Challenging Behavior

family
early-childhood-pbis
Behavior
Training
Has life with your young child become filled with conflict and confusion? Does it seem as if even the simplest activity can turn quickly into disaster when your child’s behavior is out of control? Are you beginning to feel as if things are getting worse instead of better? You’re not alone. Many, if not most, parents find themselves struggling with the challenging behavior of their young child at some point in time. The good news is that there are evidence-based, effective strategies that you can use to create positive solutions for your family.
Last Updated:
8/1/2006

Action Planning Booklet for PBIS: Preparation for School-Wide PBIS, Initial Action Plan for Implementing Positive Behavior Support Based on Results of PBS-CAT

districtstate-pbis
school-wide
Tier 1
Action plan
Series of tasks to complete for implementing school-wide PBIS with space to identify actions that need to be taken, people and dates.
Last Updated:
5/21/2002
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