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Positive Behavioral Supports for Safe, Healthy, and Effective Schools

Bibliography

Metzler, C. W., Biglan, A., Rusby, J. C., & Sprague, J. R. (2001). Evaluation of a comprehensive behavior management program to improve school-wide positive behavior support. Education and Treatment of Children, 24(4), 448–479.

This paper describes the procedures and outcomes of a school wide PBS intervention in middle school.

Embry, D. E., Flannery, D., Vazsonyi, A., Powell, K., & Atha, H. (1996). PeaceBuilders: A theoretically driven, school-based model for early violence prevention. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 12, 91–100.

Peacebuilders is an evidence-based and highly effective program that shares many features with school wide PBS. The program is shown to be highly effective in elementary schools.

Kellam, S. H., Ling, W., Merisca, R., Brown, C. H., & Ialongo, N. (1998). The effect of the level of aggression in the first grade classroom on the course and malleability of aggressive behavior into middle school. Development and Psychopathology, 10, 165–185.

This paper describes the procedures and outcomes of the “Good Behavior Game” and it’s long term effects on the behavior and academic achievement of at-risk children. It is one of the first landmark studies that paved the way for the development of school wide PBS practices.

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.

Sprague, J., Walker, H., Golly, A., White, K., Myers, D. R., & Shannon, T. (2001). Translating research into effective practice: The effects of a universal staff and student intervention on indicators of discipline and school safety. Education and Treatment of Children, 24(4) 495–511.

This study describes the procedures and outcomes of an intervention that combined school wide PBS with the Second Step violence prevention curriculum.  The program was implemented in elementary and middle schools.

Family Information Sites

Girls and Boys Towns USA, www.boystown.org.
National Parent Network on Disabilities, www.npnd.org.
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) Center, www.pacer.org.
Project for Parents of Children with Emotional/Behavior Disorders, www.pacer.org/parent/ebd.htm.
The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities,
www.nichcy.org/.
The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities is a national information center for information on disabilities and disability related issues. Click on STATE RESOURCE SHEET then your state. Scroll through the listing of resources in your area. Many listing include email addresses.
The National Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions, www.pbis.org.

Family Sites

Circle of Inclusion, www.circleofinclusion.org
West Penn Allegheny Health System (ASRI), www.asri.edu
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, www.ncrel.org
Partners in decision making: Parents tell us how, www.calstat.org/Focusletter.html.