Schoolwide Positive Behaviour
Tokomairiro High School has now adopting the SWP-B4L programme.
What is Schoolwide Positive Behaviour for Learning (SW-PB4L)
Schoolwide Positive Behaviour for Learning (SW-PB4L) is a school’s process for teaching social and behavioural skills so the focus can be on teaching and learning.
SW-PB4L is a framework or approach. It is a broad range of systemic and individualised strategies for achieving important social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behaviour with all students. SW-PB4L is not a specific “model” but a compilation of research-validated and effective practices, interventions, and systems change strategies. SW-PB4L provides an organisational approach or framework for:
- improving the social behavioural climate of schools
- supporting or enhancing the impact of academic instruction on achievement
- increasing proactive / positive / preventive management while decreasing reactive management
- integrating academic and behaviour initiatives
- improving support for all students, including students at risk and students with emotional behavioural disabilities
- Establish school discipline as an instrument for academic and behaviour success
- Consider and implement schoolwide practices and systems for all students, all staff, across all settings
- Emphasise prevention
- Utilize research-validated practices, interventions, and strategies
- Integrate initiatives, programmes, and interventions that have common outcomes
- Build and sustain a continuum of behaviour support
- Coordinate efforts with a schoolwide leadership team
- Use data to guide decision making
- Make decisions that are linked to important and measurable outcomes
- Evaluate continuously
- Emphasise an instructional approach to behaviour management
- Adapt products, activities, actions, etc. to align with cultural and demographic characteristics of the local community.