Positive Behavioral Supports for Safe, Healthy,
and Effective Schools
Bibliography
Irvin, L. K., Tobin, T. J., Sprague, J. R., Sugai, G., & Vincent, C. G. (2004). Validity of office discipline referral measures as indices of school-wide behavioral status and effects of school-wide behavioral interventions. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 6(3), 131–147.
This paper outlines the logic supporting the use of office discipline referrals as an outcome measure, and describes the basis for using office referral data as a basis for program improvement or change.
Scott, T. M., & Barrett, S. B. (2004). Using staff and student time engaged in disciplinary procedures to evaluate the impact of school-wide PBS. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 6, 21–27.
This paper provides a simple demonstration of the relationship between reduced office discipline referrals in a school, and gains in time spent in classrooms for students.
Sprague, J. R., & Golly, A. (2004). Best behavior: Building positive behavior support in schools. Longmont, CO: Sopris West Educational Services.
Best Behavior: Building Positive Behavior Supports in Schools (Sprague & Golly, 2004) provides a standardized staff development program aimed at improving school and classroom discipline in schools, and associated outcomes such as school violence, and alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. It is based on the School wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) (Sugai and Horner, 1994, Sprague, Sugai and Walker, 1998; Sprague, Walker, Golly et al., 2002) approach developed and tested at the University of Oregon and the National Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (www.pbis.org) (an Office of Special Education Programs funded research center). The mission of the Best Behavior program is to facilitate the academic achievement and healthy social development of children and youth in a safe environment conducive to learning.
Sprague, J. R., & Walker, H. M. (2005). Safe and healthy schools: Practical prevention strategies. New York: Guilford Press.
The goal of this resource book is to bring state-of-the-art information and empirically
supported practices to the process of making schools safer. The following topics
are addressed within the book: (1) school safety and security; (2) antisocial behavior,
delinquency, and youth violence; (3) current status and trends in youth violence and
school safety; (4) conceptualizing school safety; (5) sources of vulnerability to school
safety; (6) assessing school safety; (7) what the science says about what does and does not work in school crime prevention; and (8) school safety intervention strategies. The book covers school wide positive behavior supports, and has two extensive chapters addressing the problem of bullying and harassment in schools.
The National Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions, www.pbis.org
PBS Implementation Surveys, www.pbssurveys.org.
School Wide Information System, www.swis.org.