Academic and Emotional Support

PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports.

It’s a way that schools or systems organize their behavioral supports and expectations. In many schools, this looks like a motto or expression that states the school’s values for behavior and learning. For example, “Harrington Huskies are safe, responsible, and respectful.”

In MTSS language, interventions fall under the component called a Layered Continuum of Supports.  

To ensure that every student receives equitable academic and behavioral support that is culturally responsive, matched to need, and developmentally appropriate, educators and families provide students with instruction and support that can increase in intensity from universal practices (for every student) to targeted (for some students) to intensive (for a few students).

F​amily, school and community partnering is one of the five components of MTSS.  This means that everyone has a role in the process.  School based teams work together to support student learning at home, at school, and in the community.  Ask your school how to join the work of the MTSS leadership team.

As school based MTSS teams meet and plan interventions or progress monitoring for students, they include educators and families in the process.  Information may come in the form of informal communication, meetings, conferences or email.  Contact your student’s teacher, counselor, or the school’s MTSS leadership team for more information.

Here are a few ways families can support what their student is doing in school:

 Make reading an everyday habit at home

 Communicate with your student’s teacher

 Monitor and assist with homework assignments

 Review progress monitoring data

 Share your student’s successes

 Help your student set personal goals

 Help your student understand how to perservere through the tough parts of school

 Learn more about the curricula and interventions being used in your student’s school

 Attend parent/teacher conferences and other school meeting about your student