Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS)
We’ve got some exciting news to share with you
The DJJ School System is implementing school-wide PBIS. PBIS, a systematic framework, utilizes a data-driven decision-making framework to improve school climate and culture, including a range of systemic and individualized strategies to reinforce desired behaviors and diminish the recurrence of problem behaviors to achieve improved academic, emotional, and social outcomes, including those with the most complex and intensive behavioral needs. Teachers will work with youth to learn education-specific expectations for the classroom, restroom, classroom transitions, and the media center/library. These education specific expectations will be taught briefly at the beginning of the school day and prior to transitions so that everyone understands them.
When youth display the education-specific expectations, education staff will reinforce them for this behavior and provide bucks or sign their buck card.
Students will be able to use their bucks to purchase education PBIS events. These events are listed on the PBIS calendars that teachers have placed in their classrooms along with the set criteria for event attendance. There will also be Pop-Ups just like we are all used to for behavior specific concerns.
PBIS Program Plan
- Mission statement
- Purpose
- Expectations and acronyms
- Behavioral matrix
- Lesson plans/resource guides
- Youth Reinforcement System
- Staff Reinforcement System
- Supporting materials (data collection checklists, youth handbook, brochure, etc.)
CONTACT THE DJJ PBIS TEAM
To learn more about PBIS at the Department of Juvenile Justice,
Contact:
Jennifer Cannington - Statewide PBIS Administrator
478-231-1214
3408 Covington Highway
Decatur, Georgia 30032