Louisiana Positive Behavior Support Initiative
School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
Positive Behavior Support is a collaborative, assessment-based approach to developing effective interventions for problem behavior. It emphasizes the use of proactive, educative, and reinforcement-based strategies to achieve meaningful and durable behavior and lifestyle outcomes. PBS aims to build effective environments in which positive behavior is more effective than problem behavior.
When PBS strategies are implemented school-wide, students with and without disabilities benefit by having an environment that is conducive to learning. All individuals (students, staff, teachers, parents) learn more about their own behavior, learn to work together, and support each other as a community of learners.
Abney Elementary will implement the PBS program school-wide. On-going training and monthly, team meetings will provide support and guidance for all members of the Abney learning community.
CHAMPS PROGRAM
CHAMPs is a proactive and positive approach to classroom management. Champs will compliment the school’s current Positive Behavior Support program currently in place at the school. The goal of the CHAMPs program is to develop and foster in each classroom an environment where students are responsible, motivated, and highly engaged in meaningful tasks. The faculty has been spending the last few weeks attending various workshops to assist them in implementing the CHAMPs program in their classrooms. The Champs program is also school-wide with students' expectations being the same anywhere on the Abney Campus.