PBIS/SEL/PBSS
School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management
Through Project ACHIEVE, Howie has been working (and writing–see his best-selling Corwin Press book) in the area of school discipline since 1990, and Project ACHIEVE’s Positive Behavioral Support System (PBSS) model is used by thousands of schools–in every state across the country–as their PBIS, SEL, or school-wide discipline approach.
With ESEA/ESSA’s greater emphasis on the social, emotional, and behavioral student outcomes, schools and districts need to more explicitly focus on the following areas:
- School safety and prevention
- Positive school culture and classroom climate
- Classroom discipline and behavior management
- Student engagement and self-management
- Teasing, bullying, harassment, and physical aggression
- Office discipline referrals and suspensions/expulsions
- Disproportionality and effective approaches to replace abandoned zero tolerance policies
- Providing multi-tiered interventions for students with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges
- Preventing and responding to students’ mental health status and needs
Project ACHIEVE’s evidence-based PBSS approach involves students, staff, administration, and parents. Together, we build and strengthen (a) students’ interpersonal, social problem-solving, conflict prevention and resolution, and emotional control and coping self-management skills and interactions; (b) positive, safe, supportive, and consistent school climates and settings; and (c) school and district multi-tiered capacity such that the entire process becomes self-sustaining.
VIDEO: Educators Describing their Successes with Project ACHIEVE’s Positive Behavioral Support System
School Discipline and PBSS (PBIS/SEL) Services:
- Strategic Planning and Organizational Readiness activities
- School Discipline Team Involvement
- Parent and Community Outreach and Involvement
- Classroom, Grade-level, and Staff Buy-in and Consistency
- Student Engagement, Buy-In, and Involvement
- Creating Safe and Positive School (Common Area) and Classroom Settings and Climates
- Setting Behavioral Expectations linked to Social Skills (SEL) Training and Implementation
- Student Motivation and Accountability
- Prevention and Intervention for Teasing, Taunting, Bullying, Harassment, Hazing, and Physical Aggression
- Crisis Prevention, Intervention, and Response
- Strategic and Intensive Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Interventions for Challenging (including 504 and IEP) Students
- School-based or linked Mental Health Services
- Evaluation, Data Management, and Outcome Assessments