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Pulse Check: Bringing Life to the Practices at the Heart of Your Learning Environment
When was the last time you did a “health check” on your learning environment? Are you progress monitoring PBIS implementation in your school? Just as we monitor the progress of individual students, it is equally important that we progress monitor the implementation of evidence based practices, and even teams, within our schools. Read more toRead More Pulse Check: Bringing Life to the Practices at the Heart of Your Learning Environment
Providing Academic and Behavioral Feedback: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Too often, adults assume that all students arrive to school equipped with the social, behavioral and work-related academic skills necessary to meet social expectations that will serve them in the school environment and beyond. Most students acquire these skills through support and models available from school, family, and community experiences. However, not all students haveRead More Providing Academic and Behavioral Feedback: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Cool Tools for Classroom Management
Research More schools are moving toward a proactive, preventative system of positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) to cultivate more effective and efficient learning environments (Horner, 2015). As that transition happens, it is important for teachers to establish clear, concise classroom rules and procedures and to anchor them to school-wide expectations for consistency and predictability.Read More Cool Tools for Classroom Management
About
About
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) of Virginia is a Commonwealth of Virginia initiative to support positive academic and behavioral outcomes for all students. This web site is a collection of resources, tools, training opportunities and similar guides for educators and school administrators.
We work closely with public school teachers and administrators throughout Virginia to help them learn about and implement discipline approaches that reduce disruptive behavior in the classroom.
The program is based on extensive research and utilizes a preventative and proactive approach to discipline that reduces the amount of time spent dealing with office referrals, thereby increasing time spent teaching and learning. PBIS ultimately impacts the very culture of the school to shift attention to positive behavior and successful learning systems for children, teachers and administrators.
For more information, visit Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports of Virginia.
Behavior Modules
Behavior Modules
The Virginia Department of Education is committed to providing all students the best possible education, in collaboration with the Training and Technical Assistance Center at Old Dominion University, we have developed a series of modules that relate to 25 strategies of proven effectiveness.
Learn more and register to view the modules by visiting the PBIS of Virginia website.