What is Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support?
Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support includes strategies for preventing problem behavior by changing routines and by teaching new social and communication skills.  The goal of PBS is to improve quality of life, not only for the child, but for all the individuals within the child’s social network.
Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support is a system that is developed by a school for improving student behavior.  It is used:

  • By all staff; with all students
  • Across all environments pertaining to school (classroom, lunchroom, restroom, playground, bus, etc)
  • To help schools to create effective learning environments

Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support consists of three steps:
Step 1:  Identify and Teach Expected Behavior

  • Identify four expectations for all environments.  Ours are Safety, Responsibility, Honesty, and Respect.
  • Provide examples of desired behaviors for each area.
  • Post expectations throughout the school building
  • Provide opportunities for students to learn and practice expectations across all settings.

Step 2:  Positively Reinforce and Recognize Expected Behaviors
When students meet schoolwide expectations, school staff will note their success with positive reinforcement.  This might include verbal praise, school tickets, special privileges, or recognition during student assemblies.


Step 3:  Enforce Meaningful Consequences for Violations
In addition to teaching and reinforcing positive behaviors, the school will identify a consistent way to respond to problem behavior when it occurs.  Problem behaviors typically fall into the categories of minor or major offenses.  Minor behaviors are dealt with by building staff or the classroom teacher.  Major violations are managed by administrative staff
Our SW PBS Purpose Statement

The purpose of Pleasant Valley’s school-wide discipline plan is to create a safe and positive learning environment where students can do their best work out of respect for one another.
How can PV parents support SWPBS?
  • Discuss the importance and honor of being recognized for demonstrating these important traits.
  • Reinforce the importance of the PAWS character traits when they are displayed at home.
  • Display the PAWS paws where everyone in the family can celebrate them.
  • When your child has accumulated a certain number of PAWS paws you can celebrate by going bowling, going out for ice cream, seeing a movie, having a friend over, extra privileges, etc.
Pleasant Valley Matrix of Expected Behaviors