School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS): Targeting School Systems and Procedures to Prevent and Respond to Disruptive Behavior

School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) is a three-tiered prevention framework that integrates a universal system of supports with targeted and intensive preventive interventions to address student behavior problems. SW-PBIS is based on behavioral, social learning, and organizational behavioral principles that aim to shift the school environment to shape student behavior in a positive way. The program focuses on teaching clear behavioral expectations, implementing a system to respond to the meeting of behavioral expectations, and creating a consistent response system to behavioral infractions for all students across all school settings. SW-PBIS training specifically focuses on data collection regarding implementation of core features of the model, data on behavioral infractions, and other data points that can be used to assess when students respond positively to the universal behavioral supports or may need additional targeted or intensive supports.