Educational researchers such as Robert H. Horner believe that PBIS enhances the school staff's time for delivering effective instructions and lessons to all students.
[1] In contrast to PBIS, many schools used exclusionary discipline practices including detentions, suspensions, or expulsions to separate students from the classroom and from peers.
PBIS emphasizes preventing problem behaviors before they happen to increase the opportunity for students to learn by keeping them in the classroom.
[2] PBIS emphasizes the integrated use of classroom management and school-wide discipline strategies coupled with effective academic instruction to create a positive and safe school climate for all students.
PBIS follows research showing that punishing students inconsistently without a positive alternative, is ineffective and only offers short-term solutions.
The academic and behavior goals are often defined and supported by the students, families, and teachers in tandem for the program to succeed.
This component refers to the evidence-based curriculum, instruction, interventions, and strategies implemented within the school, and are meant to create a common and shared understanding of expectations.
Secondary prevention provides intensive or targeted interventions to support students not responding to the primary efforts.
The BST should consist of teachers, administrators, school social workers, psychologists, counselors and/or a licensed behavior specialist.
[13] The aims of CR-PBIS is to merge strategies deployed in culturally relevant teaching with PBIS, often to explcitly reduce disproportional exclusionary discipline rates for African American children.
CR-PBIS tries to address these concerns that are left untouched by the traditional PBIS framework by including families and the outside community as a large piece of creating an environment for teaching and learning.
[15] Just like PBIS, responsive classroom (RC) centers on research-based approaches and strive to ensure high quality education to all students.
Responsive classroom is a for-purchase-program that staff can be trained in at multiple levels and has published tools and strategies for meeting these goals with students.