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When we left the school, the following were the most prominent areas that need to be retrained for the

teachers, placed in bullet form to be as concise and clear as possible:

➢ Framing things positively

○ Teachers would still put “badly behaved” students names on the boards

○ Teachers would still say “don’t talk,” instead of “listen” or “stop running” instead of “remember to

walk”

○ Although it is a big change, ideally negatively framed behavior management NEVER happens in a

PBIS classroom

○ Next Step: Train teachers to...

■ Very publicly recognize students positive behavior to motivate other students (useful

examples of teacher recognizing positive behaviors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ml1tih5zSY/. This is the goal.)

■ ALWAYS AVOID publicly ostracizing a student for behavior, conversations about bad

behavior should ALWAYS be in private if possible

➢ Prompting

○ Teachers almost always wait until behavior gets out of control/“bad” and put out the fire

○ The idea is to avoid behaviors from occurring in the first place

○ Next Step: Train teachers to…

■ Concretely review behavior expectations before beginning an activity, transition, or

essentially any change in the classroom. This can be as short as a sentence or two or as long as a

mini lesson.

➢ Utilizing the reinforcement systems tangibly

○ Teachers often forget to actually give prizes to students. Students still get the reinforcement of getting

their name on a ticket or, as a class, getting a marble in a jar - but it’s not the same as a tangible reward

(either material, i.e. a toy, or immaterial, i.e. free time in the computer lab)

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