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Tucson PBIS Training Packages

Are student behaviors at your school a barrier to learning?  Would you like to unite your staff with a consistent approach to behavior management? 

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a research-based, school-wide systems approach to improve school climate and create safer and more effective schools. Since 2003, the Tucson PBIS Initiative in the College of Education has offered training for school-wide PBIS. With grant funding support, the UA LINKS staff has trained over 80 schools in Southern Arizona. Of the schools trained in the past three years, about 90% of them are actively implementing PBIS.

To support schools, we have developed materials, trainings, workshops, online training modules, and webinars. We have found that several processes increase implementation success including a planning process, baseline assessment of school climate, an audit of the PBIS program every spring, a planning meeting in the summer to review the audit and regular celebrations for core teams and administrators.