Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
PBIS is a positive, proactive, school-wide approach to helping all students learn how to manage their behavior so that they can be socially, emotionally and academically successful.
Diplomat Expectations:
- Be Responsible
- Be Respectful
- Be Safe
The DES expected behaviors are taught and reinforced to all students through classroom, school-wide activities, and frequent positive reinforcement through our PBIS program.
Positive strategies to help all students learn and practice expected behaviors.
- Be Responsible, Respectable and Safe are taught (and re-taught as needed) for all school settings, including the classroom, halls, bathroom, cafeteria, recess, and bathrooms. Posters and reminders are posted in all classrooms, entrance to school and bus ramp.
- DES students earn points for showing expected behaviors. Points can be used to earn classroom or school-wide celebrations.
- Classroom rewards are different for all classrooms and vary from, Fun Friday time, prize cart/box, lunch with teacher or friend and many other options.
- School-wide Celebrations are to come…
- Ready to Learn Reset is a spot in every school setting where kids can go to regulate themselves when they are having difficulty managing their behavior. Reset is a strategy/tool for students. It is NOT a "time-out" punishment.
Additional Supports
Sometimes students need extra support to help them manage behaviors that interfere with their own and/or other students’ ability to learn. Targeted and Intensive supports help students learn and practice the skills that will enable them to consistently show Responsible, Respectful and Safe behaviors toward themselves and others. Supports are provided depending on a particular student’s needs; some students may have only one support; others may have several. Students receiving Targeted and Intensive supports spend almost all their time in their regular classrooms. Parent permission is required for students to receive Targeted and Intensive supports.
Targeted supports help students with persistent, low-level behavior or self-confidence issues. (Examples of low-level behavior issues include refusing to work, not following directions, disrupting your own or others' learning, and being unkind to others.) Targeted supports at DES include Check-in/Check-out, Scheduled/Earned Breaks, Processing Breaks, Reward Lunch Groups, Recess Planning, and Social Skills/Self-Regulation Groups.
Intensive support is provided to students who need additional support beyond Targeted supports. Intensive support is provided in addition to any Targeted supports a student may be receiving. Intensive supports include Individualized Behavior Support Plans and Wraparound plans that involve community resources to help the child, family, and school team be more successful.
PBIS Rewards (Get Connected)
Download the family app to get connected with your child’s class.
App allows you and the teacher to have direct conversations, see what points your child has earned and what they are purchasing with their points. It also notifies you when they receive a referral.
How to use family app video here
PBIS Rewards YouTube link here