Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based three-tiered framework for improving and integrating all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day. It is a way to support everyone – especially students with disabilities – to create the kinds of schools where all students are successful.

Wiseburn Middle School's use of PBIS is a commitment to addressing student behavior through systems change. When it’s implemented well, students achieve improved social and academic outcomes, schools experience reduced exclusionary discipline practices, and school personnel feel more effective. To learn more about PBIS and the three tiers of support offered at Wiseburn Middle School, click here. 

Second step is a web based social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum that’s modern, research based and responsive to the needs of today’s students and educators.  It’s underpinned by the latest research in adolescent brain development and social psychology, designed to promote the social emotional development, safety, and well-being of students.

The Olweus Program (pronounced Ol-VAY-us) is a comprehensive approach that includes schoolwide, classroom, individual, and community components. The program is focused on long-term change that creates a safe and positive school climate. The program’s goals are to reduce and prevent bullying problems among school children and to improve peer relations at school.  The program has been found to reduce bullying among children, improve the social climate of classrooms, and reduce related antisocial behaviors.