Project Description:
The OSEP-funded National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports was established to address the behavioral and discipline systems needed for successful learning and social development of students. The Center provides capacity-building information and technical support about behavioral systems to assist states and districts in the design of effective schools.
The overall goals of the TA Center on PBIS are to:
-Identify and enhance knowledge about, and practical demonstration of, school-wide PBS practices, systems and outcomes along the three-tiered continuum (primary, secondary, tertiary); and
-Develop, conduct and evaluate technical assistance and dissemation efforts that allow evidence-based practices to be implemented on a large scale with high durability and effectiveness.
The PBIS Center activites include:
-Expanding school-wide PBS technical assistance to allow large-scale implementation;
-Emphasizing effective education and support for students with more intense and individualized support needs;
-Expanding school-wide PBS to urban schools and high schools;
-Increasing accessibility to the concepts, outcomes and research associated with school-wide PBS;
-Establishing a network of resource agents to build local capacity; and
-Utilizing state-to-state communities of practice to facilitate PBS implementation.
To accomplish these goals, the Center operates as a consortium of researchers, advocates, family members, teacher educators, professional association leaders, and model developers, and receives guidance from an external evaluation team. A network of researchers has been established to provide feedback on Center-related products and activities, receive and disseminate Center-related products and information and participate in Center-sponsored events.
