School-wide Tier 1 Interventions
A key consensus-based strategy used by planning teams involves working with faculty and students to identify three to five positively stated expectations for the school. Once these expectations are identified, the team works with faculty to design lesson plans that everyone can use to teach these expectations to all students in all school settings (e.g., classroom, cafeteria, hallway). In addition, the team works with the school faculty to create a plan for the opening of the next school year. Strategies are identified for reinforcing students engaging in positive behavior and for recognizing staff members. Click here for a summary of an article describing how a school team can start the school year on a positive note.

Writing Lesson Plans
Writing lesson plans for teaching social skills to students can be done in a collaborative manner so that all faculty are involved in the process. The key to developing effective lesson planning strategies is to make the process easy and efficient for all faculty. In simplest form, lesson plans are designed to communicate a set of expectations for social-interpersonal behavior to students. A well written behavior lesson plan will include an overall objective, positive and negative examples of the expectations to be taught, as well as an opportunity to role play the desired behavior, receive feedback when practicing expected behaviors, and allow students to be actively engaged in the lesson.

Classroom Management
All educators are expected to teach examples (and non-examples) of school-wide behavioral expectations, as well as implement other components of effective school-wide behavioral support, such as rewarding expected behaviors, discouraging problem behavior, collecting data to enable data-based decision-making, etc., in all school settings. Since students spend the majority of their day in the classroom, every classroom should be an environment in which school-wide expectations are routinely taught, practiced and acknowledged. School behavior support planning teams and faculty should collaborate to share creative classroom behavioral support ideas and strategies, observe one another, and become more effective and purposeful prevention-focused (rather than reactive) classroom managers. All teachers need to gain fluency in effective classroom management strategies. The links in this section help support a school’s efforts in implementing school-wide positive behavior support in the classroom.