Acronyms that focus on helping students and teachers achieve success in and out of the classroom. SWPBS - school-wide positive behavior supports It is very possible this will look different at each school within a single school district. Some schools use simple statements such as "Live by the Golden Rule" treat others how you want to be treated or as complex as acrostic of obey, respect, help, etc. If students are found to be exhibiting these character traits they might receive tickets to redeem prizes. The classroom teacher manages his/her room daily with rules they have decided work for them. Anyone in the school can reward students with the school-wide positive behavior support and students in every grade are taught and understand the school's model. PUBS- positive unified behavior supports This is similar yet different to SWPBS. It is similar in that there is a school-wide model and expectation for correct behavior and ways to earn and be recognized for achieving targeted behavior. The way it differs from SWPBS is the "unified" part. This requires direct teaching and learning for all staff. Staff, from the principal to the recess attendant are taught specific expectations of students and when expectations are not met staff are to provide specific responses to violations. It gets even more specific, delivery is unified, with warm tone voices. It would go like this: John starts yelling answers out inappropriately to the teacher's question. Teacher responds by calmly stating school-wide rules for speaking out of turn, "John you spoke without raising your hand, you must wait until I call on you". The teacher uses a warm calm tone to reply to the student. Students are taught specific classroom rules provided by behavior management development team from kindergarten on. The benefits to this unified approach are: each year as a student moves to a new teacher the rules are the same rules are enforced the same, with the same verbal response staff are not left to make up their own rules emotions are taken out of the equation because staff are provided responses there is accountability through data collection and observation for compliance Teachers at schools who use PUBS report a calm in the entire school they have not experienced before. Students feel a sense of consistency and fairness. The negative: 100% compliance is required from all staff New staff members may question the need for extreme unity Essentially, SWPBS are great, PUBS goes a few steps farther to provide consistency in expectations from both teachers and students. Below is a video of schools that use PUBS.
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