Positive School Culture |
| Brief Description: Positive School Culture is an approach to discipline
which focuses on developing and sustaining schoolwide
as well as classroom approaches to discipline.
It aims to prevent inappropriate behavior through
teaching and reinforcing appropriate behaviors.
Positive School Culture is a version of Positive
Behavior Supports, which is consistent with the
core principles of response to intervention (RTI).
Based on the tiers of support, Positive School
Culture offers a range of interventions that are
applied systematically to the needs of individual
students. Positive School Culture helps to redirect
the old system of discipline and focuses on positive
approaches in managing behaviors of students. Each
school and community generates expectations
that apply to all students and adults in the school.
The expectations are taught on a regular basis
and booster sessions are provided when the need
arises. Consistent encouragement is provided
through systemic recognition. Schools use a process
for collecting and analyzing data in order to make
decisions that inform building action planning.
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| Audience:
K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals and other personnel
working in the school-community
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| Evidence Base for Training: Positive School Culture is based on Positive Behavior Supports, a nationally recognized program that provides a systemic approach to establishing the social culture and behavioral supports needed for all children in a school to achieve both social and academic success. With over twenty-five years of research, Dr. Rob Horner acquired a history of helping school administrators develop ways of embedding school-wide systems of positive behavior support. Dr. Sugai’s research emphasized effective applications of applied behavior analysis principles and school-wide PBS procedures. |
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