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What is PBIS? Spoiler alert: It's Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports. Watch the video to learn more.

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We speak student!

00:04

What is PBIS?

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a la Shmoop

00:07

Ask someone on the street what a school's job is

00:09

and often you'll get the answer that it's to

00:11

make kids smarter.

00:13

To foster good study habits,

00:15

encourage a love of learning,

00:17

and help prepare them for those nasty standardized tests.

00:21

But mental intelligence

00:23

isn't everything. If it were,

00:24

there might be perfectly brilliant scientists

00:26

and financial wizards out there

00:28

dressing inappropriately to important meetings,

00:30

robbing their own loved ones blind,

00:32

or doing unsafe things on the roof

00:34

of a moving vehicle.

00:36

What it comes down to is that

00:37

social behavior is every bit as important

00:39

as growing those brain cells.

00:41

You can rack up a whole wall full of fancy-sounding degrees,

00:44

but if you don't know how to conduct yourself

00:46

in the real world, you're gonna have a rough time of it.

00:49

And that's where PBIS comes in.

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First of all, since you're probably dying to know

00:53

what that acronym stands for,

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here it is: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support.

01:00

Anyway, basically, PBIS is a framework that looks

01:03

to work with young learners,

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instilling in them from the get-go

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the important concepts of respect,

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responsibility, reliablity,

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safety, tolerance, and so on

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so that they grow up to be emotionally and socially

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well-rounded individuals

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rather than just walking, talking brains on a stick.

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Although that'd be kind of cool in a way.

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All right, well, the program is preventative,

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meaning teachers and admins don't wait for kids

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to develop issues before they step in.

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It's all about taking raw, unmolded human beings

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and giving them the tools to do well in life.

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And hopefully to stay out of prison.

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PBIS works with administrators, parents, and teachers

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to form a community within schools,

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a network of concerned adults

01:43

who are all on the same page when it comes to

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providing for their students' success.

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Because PBIS is so involved and hands-on,

01:51

each school can tailor its program to its needs,

01:53

focusing on the areas they deem most important.

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Maybe one school thinks tolerance

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is uber important, but safety --

02:00

eh, they can take it or leave it.

02:02

Well, their students will receive behavioral instruction

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when it comes to tolerance,

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provided they don't fall off the monkey bars and break a leg first.

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That's not good.

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Needless to say, Shmoop's totally on board

02:12

with all this stuff. We're big believers

02:14

in a person's education being a holistic thing.

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You can't just take a child,

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jam their minds full of facts,

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and expect them to have it all together

02:21

later in life.

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So to that end, we are offering a product that includes

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short courses as well as teaching guides.

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Students will be able to interface with the courses

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while the guides are more like scripted lesson plans

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that teachers can utilize in the classroom

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to supplement their teaching.

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We'll break down all the social, cultural,

02:38

and behavioral issues that PBIS focuses on

02:41

and drill down until we can't drill down any further

02:44

or we get to China. Whichever comes first.

02:47

So if a student needs particular help

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in certain areas - say they're getting into

02:51

fights in the cafeteria or they're having

02:53

a hard time wrapping their head around the idea of

02:56

backpack ownership,

02:57

Shmoop will be there to lend a helping hand.

02:59

Or if a school simply wants to take

03:01

more preventative action and introduce its students

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to all these concepts upfront,

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well, that works, too.

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As educators, we're thinkers.

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But let's not forget that we're all human beings, too,

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with complicated emotions, fears,

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anxieties, inhibitions,

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and backgrounds.

03:16

Shmoop and PBIS will uncomplicate them

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so that we can all be happy, whole,

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and well-balanced.

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