Sustain and resource statewide PBIS scale-up with emphasis on advanced-tier implementation support¶

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Description¶

Based on finding that only a minority of trained schools implemented all three tiers with fidelity, the authors recommend that "statewide scale-up efforts need to continue to find ways to support PBIS implementation." State technical assistance successfully helped most schools implement Tier 1 with fidelity, but more work is required for advanced tiers, and a key barrier is "the resources to provide ongoing intensive coaching and feedback" across a geographically large state whose regions contain schools often located several hours apart.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Ongoing intensive coaching and feedback resources; regional organization of technical assistance; adherence to the PBIS Implementation Blueprint

Constraints¶

• Implementing all three PBIS tiers with fidelity is difficult and requires widespread commitment throughout a school; geographic spread of schools complicates coaching delivery

Target Learners¶

• Schools and districts statewide implementing or scaling PBIS, spanning elementary, middle, and high schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• Building school capacity to implement all three PBIS tiers with fidelity to reduce disciplinary exclusions

Affordances¶

• Pbis Three Tiered Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
• Positive Behavior Interventions And Supports
• Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
• Positive Behavior Support
• Implement multi-tiered supports focused on acceleration, not remediation
• Sustain statewide MTSS by staying the course: invest in district-level capacity and an integrated three-tier model
• Invest state discretionary dollars in early intervention systems such as MTSS to reduce later intensive supports
• Organize integrated support systems as universal, supplemental, and intensive tiers

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Gage, N. A., Grasley-Boy, N. M., MacSuga-Gage, A. S., & Ulrich, T. G. (2025). Implementing Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Three Tiers of Prevention and Intervention as Protective Factors. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED673553