BOLTS PBIS

What is Schoolwide PBIS?

• Proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate student behaviors to create positive school environments.
• Instead of using a piecemeal approach of individual behavioral management plans, a continuum of positive behavior interventions and support for all students within a school is implemented in areas including the classroom and non-classroom settings (such as hallways, buses, and restrooms).
• Positive behavior interventions and support is an application of a behaviorally-based systems approach to enhance the capacity of schools, families, and communities to design effective environments that improve the link between research-validated practices and the environments in which teaching and learning occurs.
• Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary / core (school-wide), secondary/ supplemental (classroom), and tertiary / intensive (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results (personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) for all children and youth by making targeted behaviors less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional.

What are the benefits of PBIS?

• Development of a leadership team in your building that focuses attention on social emotional needs of students and improvement of climate and culture of the building.
• Focuses attention and resources on prevention of problem behaviors.
• Prioritizes resources and staff development to increase all staff skills in dealing with problem behaviors.
• Supports the use of a common language across staff, students, families and the community.
• Teaches staff to implement a system for data based decision making.
• Decreases discipline referrals and thus decreases administrative time devoted to problem behavior.
• Increases instructional time and student achievement.
• Fosters a calm, safe environment and improves the climate and culture of the building.
• Can increase both student and staff attendance.

District staff are responsible for providing proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate student behaviors to create positive school environments for all students, identifying those students who need additional supports, and implementing interventions based upon student need. If you feel that your child needs additional supports in the area of behavior, please contact your child's teacher, guidance counselor, and/or principal. Together we will work with you to ensure that your child is successful.

Liberty High PBIS Mission Statement

Dedicated to fostering an effective learning environment by establishing positive behavioral supports and the culture needed for all students in our school to achieve social, emotional, behavioral, and academic success. 

Did you know that Liberty High is a PBIS School?

The following information is designed to provide you with an overview of what PBIS is, what it looks like at Liberty, and how you can support and reinforce our PBIS mission with your student(s) when they are at home. Please feel free to contact Principal Justin Colbert with any additional questions you may have.

Liberty High School’s PBIS expectations are based on providing clear expectations for student behavior. The goal of PBIS is to ensure the right of all students to a productive educational environment in which they may learn the social skills necessary to develop into mature, responsible young adults, accountable for their own actions. Students are in control of their own behavior and therefore must take ownership in the consequences that accompany.

An important part of the educational process is helping students become aware of their rights and the responsibilities that accompany those rights. Liberty High School has the duty to create a respectful environment where students learn how to work as a team and begin to lead. These core values will be recognized both positively and productively.

Throughout the school year, students will be exposed to different behavioral expectations that are transferable across the various environments they experience as a Liberty High student, and out in the community. Liberty High students and staff have created videos and lessons that demonstrate expected positive behaviors in each of these spaces. Signage is also displayed throughout the building that will help in reminding students of actionable behaviors that represent Liberty High’s core values: Belonging, Ownership, Leadership, Teamwork, Safety.