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What is School-Wide
Positive Behavior Support?

School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) is a team-based approach for creating and maintaining safe learning environments.

School discipline is different using SWPBS because the focus changes from punishing, controlling, and excluding troubling students to preventing
problem behaviors and teaching appropriate behavioral skills as needed.

In SWPBS, schools develop a 3-tier model with:
Primary Preventions for All Students
Identifying School-Wide Rules and Teaching
Behavioral Expectations for all Settings
Developing a reinforcement/reward system
Clear procedures for addressing rule violations
Secondary Interventions for students at risk
Student assistance teams for at-risk students
Teach appropriate skills for particular behaviors/settings
Tertiary Interventions for students at high risk
System-level wraparound team
In-depth functional behavior assessment
Targeted skills instruction with accommodations
Routine follow-up to gauge progress

SWPBS uses DATA to track discipline referrals so we can answer questions:
Where are the problems happening?
When are they happening? Who is at risk?

Cannon County has a District Leadership Team to guide and support the implementation of SWPBS in the schools. School teams are trained in implementing the Primary Preventions and Secondary Interventions, and a System-Level Team assists with Tertiary Interventions.

For more information, please contact Barbara Parker, Director of Schools
at 563-5752