Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline Resource Database

Educational systems cannot be considered effective until they are effective for all student groups. PBIS provides an ideal framework for increasing equity in student outcomes. Schools implementing PBIS with fidelity have greater equity in school discipline, specifically for Black or African American students. However, most PBIS teams will need to include equity-centered strategies in their action plans to achieve equitable outcomes for all student groups. Multiple research studies show that schools implementing the Center on PBIS's equity approach have significantly increased racial equity in school discipline.

This series of webinars focuses on collecting, analyzing, and using data through virtual engagement and highlights the importance of meaningful engagement of stakeholders to state and local data efforts.

This 4-part call series supports collaboration between Part B, Section 619 Coordinators and Part B Data Manager or data staff responsible for preschool special education data. Participants will gain strategies necessary for using an equity mindset within the full data life cycle, such as analyzing data to identify and remove barriers to equitable access, experiences, and outcomes.

This resource provides State Leadership Teams with guidance on the collection and analysis of behavior incident report data from programs. This guidance includes critical questions about programs’ use of exclusionary disciplinary practices, considerations for using the data appropriately and effectively, and sample table shells demonstrating how state leadership teams could present behavior incident data answering each of the critical questions.

The Digging into Data recorded webinar series offers guidance on the use of data tools related to implementation fidelity of systems and practices and the use of the Behavior Incident Report System (BIRS). The sessions on the use of the BIRS can be used to guide programs in the implementation of the sysem and use of data for decision-making related to child challenging behavior and the use of exclusionary discipline.

This recorded webinar describes differences in how children from different backgrounds experience school discipline. It also explores an intervention for making school discipline more equitable.

Research shows that disproportionality in school discipline is related to implicit (unconscious) bias. This presentation provides an overview of this concept and describes a training approach for reducing the effects of implicit bias in discipline decision making.

Racial and ethnic inequities in school discipline are widespread and persistent, even in schools implementing PBIS with fidelity. Yet integrating components of a multicomponent equity-centered approach into existing tiered frameworks is showing promise for improving equity in student outcomes. This brief describes the Center on PBIS’s 5-Point Equity Approach and the evidence for its positive effects on discipline disproportionality.

These high-leverage practices help special educators and teacher candidates use effective practices for collaboration, assessment, social/emotional/behavioral supports, and instruction.

The IRIS Center develops and disseminates free, engaging online resources that help educators, leaders, and families use evidence-based instructional and behavioral practices to support the education of struggling learners and those with disabilities. These resources can be used in professional development activities for practicing professionals, as well as in college teacher preparation programs. Training modules include: Addressing Challenging Behaviors for early childhood, elementary and secondary aged students.

This document helps families of children who have an IEP ask questions to learn more about their child’s behavior in school. Sample questions and resources are included.

Use this list to find PBIS resources for families.

This fact sheet illustrates ways to improve communication and collaboration between schools and families to support students’ needs. Strategies include engaging families in decision-making processes around student supports, discipline, and school climate. A key strategy is providing family engagement training to all district and school leaders and educators and establishing family engagement councils.

This website helps families to understand and navigate IDEA's discipline policies.

This webinar provides panel discussions related to equity, inappropriate discipline practices, and effective strategies. This session will discuss preschool suspensions.