Positive behavioral interventions and supports in pictures: Using videos to support schoolwide implementation

ABSTRACT

Teaching expectations is an essential component of schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). Creating PBIS videos is a tool for teaching expectations and other targeted skills within a schoolwide PBIS framework. In this article, we offer the why, how, when, where, and what of producing/screening PBIS videos to effectively support schoolwide prevention efforts. Because effective videos (a) demonstrate the core PBIS principles and (b) meet technical video production standards, we offer a rubric for self-evaluating your own videos considering these two key elements. To support the use of PBIS videos, we also present a sample screening schedule and a tip sheet with questions to ask before, during, and after PBIS video production.

KEYWORDS:

• PBIS
• positive behavioral interventions and supports
• SW-PBIS
• video

Notes on contributors

Robin Parks Ennis is an assistant professor of special education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests include empowering teachers to use low-intensity instructional strategies and positive behavioral interventions and supports for students with and at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders.

Shanna E. Hirsch is an assistant professor of special education at Clemson University. Her current research is centered around supporting novice teachers in learning to implement classroom management practices, developing targeted supports for students with or at risk for emotional behavioral disorders, and implementing positive behavior supports.

Ashley S. MacSuga-Gage is an assistant professor of special education at the University of Florida. Her research agenda and interest center on classroom management, Positive Behavior Supports, and the in-service and preservice professional development of educators in K–12 and special educators serving students with or at risk for emotional behavioral disorders.

Michael J. Kennedy is an assistant professor of special education at the University of Virginia. His research interests include the use of multimedia to provide effective learning experiences for teachers, teacher candidates, and students.

Notes

i For more information on the PBIS Film Festival go to https://new.apbs.org/conference/film-festival.