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We speak student!

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What is PBIS?

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a la Shmoop

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

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

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make kids smarter.

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To foster good study habits,

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encourage a love of learning,

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and help prepare them for those nasty standardized tests.

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But mental intelligence

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isn't everything. If it were,

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there might be perfectly brilliant scientists

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and financial wizards out there

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dressing inappropriately to important meetings,

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robbing their own loved ones blind,

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or doing unsafe things on the roof

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of a moving vehicle.

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What it comes down to is that

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social behavior is every bit as important

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as growing those brain cells.

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

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but if you don't know how to conduct yourself

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

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And that's where PBIS comes in.

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

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what that acronym stands for,

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here it is: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support.

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Anyway, basically, PBIS is a framework that looks

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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

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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,

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each school can tailor its program to its needs,

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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 --

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eh, they can take it or leave it.

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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

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with all this stuff. We're big believers

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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

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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,

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and behavioral issues that PBIS focuses on

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

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or we get to China. Whichever comes first.

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So if a student needs particular help

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in certain areas - say they're getting into

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fights in the cafeteria or they're having

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a hard time wrapping their head around the idea of

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backpack ownership,

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Shmoop will be there to lend a helping hand.

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Or if a school simply wants to take

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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.

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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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