HKPBSD Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) Report

Background Information:

The primary goal of PBIS is to establish a positive teaching environment and school climate that is safe and predictable for students. PBIS is an evidence-based framework used to support students’ behavior, academic, and social emotional needs in school. The first step is developing school-wide behavioral expectations for all students, teaching those behaviors to students, and positively acknowledging students who are using correct behaviors. By teaching behavior and positively acknowledging students, PBIS helps to impact the climate of a school and increase staff and student connectedness. It also increases academic engaged learning time for students, increases school attendance rates and decreases incidents of bullying and office discipline referrals. Our PBIS schools have been creative in ways to utilize the PBIS framework to support related initiatives.

The following schools were implementing PBIS this school year: Homer Flex, K-Beach Elementary, Nikiski North Star Elementary,  Razdolna, Redoubt Elementary, Seward Elementary, Soldotna Elementary, Sterling Elementary, Tebughna, Voznesenka, and West Homer Elementary/Fireweed Academy. We were thrilled to host a training/collaboration this year to reinvigorate our PBIS Schools.