PBIS Program

A small number of clearly defined behavioral expectations are communicated to students in positive terms. Each school develops its own expectations, typically communicated via short, easy-to-remember slogans.  

Franklin's schoolwide expectations are:

• Be Safe
• Be on Task
• Be Accountable 
• Be Respectful

Teachers and staff clearly and consistently explain the behavioral expectations for various settings. A behavioral expectation for a cafeteria might be "clean up your area," for instance, while an expectation for the playground might be, "take turns."  The behaviors are taught to all of the students in the school through direct teaching in the classroom and across other areas on campus.

Teachers and staff acknowledge appropriate behavior and efforts  when they see them.  A specific verbal acknowledgment ("great job cleaning up the

block area!") may be paired with giving an acknowledgment ticket.  Each school has its own ticket that reflects their school expectations and mascot.  The tickets are turned into the teacher or front office for a chance to win a larger award or activity prize.

Franklin staff use  "Franklin Falcon Feathers" to acknowledge appropriate behavior among students.

Office discipline and low-level (minor) discipline data are collected on school-wide behavior. The school's PBIS team reviews the data regularly to look for patterns that indicate a need for re-teaching expectations. 

Each site has a Coordination of Services (COS) Team that meets regularly and connects students with appropriate interventions in any area of need (e.g., behavior, academics, attendance, health, and social-emotional).  Parents are engaged as active partners to ensure that the best plan is created to foster student success.

In the most successful implementations of PBIS, the entire school community - including all teachers, staff, students, and families - understand, support,  and participate in the PBIS. The goal of school-wide PBIS is a school environment that is safe, predictable, inclusive and welcoming for students and families.

The PBIS framework incorporates three tiers.

Tier 1/Universal Support: This is the training that all students in all settings receive on the behavioral expectations and climate of their school.

Tier 2/Selected:About 10-20% of a school's students may need more focused support via, for example, social skills groups, daily check-ins with an adult, or behavioral interventions in the classroom.

Tier 3/Targeted: Some 3 to 5% of a school's students may need individualized behavioral interventions with, for instanced, a psychologist or behavioral interventionist.