Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a proactive approach to establishing the behavioral supports and social culture needed for all students in a school to achieve social, emotional and academic success. PBIS is used by schools nationwide to help young people work through behavior challenges in order to suceed academically and socially in their schools and communities. PBIS focuses on the prevention, teaching, and use of postive reinforcements rather than punishiments to help students find ways to learn and demonstrate expected behaviors.

 Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary (school-wide), secondary (classroom), and tertiary (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results (personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) for all by making targeted misbehavior less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional. PBIS uses an evidenced-based three tiered framework for improving and integrating all the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day.

Data
Schools generate multiple pieces of data about students every day. Within the PBIS framework, schools use data to select, monitor and evaluate outcomes, practices and systems across all three tiers.

Systems
The way schools operate are their foundational systems. In PBIS, these systems support accurate, durable, implementation of practices and the effective use of data to achieve better outcomes.

Practices
Key to improving outcomes are the strategies to support students at every level. In PBIS, these interventions and strategies are backed by research to target the outcomes students want to see.

Outcomes
The outcomes from PBIS are what schools achieve through the data, systems and practices they put in place. In PBIS, outcomes might be improved student behavior, or fewer office discipline referrals.