Positive Behavior Program: The 3 Bees

One of the foremost advances in school-wide discipline is the emphasis on school-wide systems of support that include proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate student behaviors to create positive school environments. Instead of using a piecemeal approach of individual behavioral management plans, a continuum of positive behavior support for all students within a school is implemented in areas including the classroom and nonclassroom settings (such as hallways, buses, and restrooms). Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary (school-wide), secondary (classroom), and tertiary (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results (personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) for all children and youth by making targeted behaviors less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional.

School-wide and within our classroom, we follow the 3 Bees: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible. When a child is following one of the 3 Bees, they are recognized and given a paper Bee to be added to a classroom beehive. Bees are collected daily at the classroom level and then collected by the office on Fridays. Bees are pulled from the hive both at the classroom and the whole school level as an incentive to support positive behavior decision making.

Here are some pictures of the fifth graders teaching our first graders about our school-wide program:

For more information on positive behavior support systems, please visit www.PBIS.org