Once the first day of school has come and gone, it’s time to get down to the real work of teaching and learning. The first week of school is a great time for reinforcing the plan you taught on the first day. After all, your students had a lot of information to absorb on the first day. You will spend some time in the coming days reinforcing PBIS expectations, ... Read More
PBIS Rewards Blog
Set the Tone for a Positive School Year
The great thing about the beginning of a new school year is that it’s a clean slate. All the old challenges from the previous year have faded into the past, and you’ve got a whole classroom of fresh new faces expecting you to bring your best. You’ve decorated your door and your PBIS bulletin board, and have some getting-to-know-you activities planned for the ... Read More
What is PBIS?
If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to swim, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to multiply, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to drive, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to behave, we... teach? ...punish? Why can’t we finish the last sentence as automatically as we do the others? It's happened so often ... Read More
Benefits of a Digital Token Economy System
How does your school use the time and talents of its parent volunteers? Parent volunteers are invaluable for the assistance they give as field trip chaperones, story time readers, and cafeteria monitors. In some schools, however, parent volunteers spend a lot of time cutting out paper tickets for the school’s token economy. Paper tickets are a mainstay in ... Read More