{"id":762,"date":"2021-12-20T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=762"},"modified":"2021-12-20T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:23:40","slug":"preventing-classroom-conflicts-positive-behavioral-interventions-and-supports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/preventing-classroom-conflicts-positive-behavioral-interventions-and-supports\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing classroom conflicts: Positive behavioral interventions and supports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>This is the first of a multi-segment series in which NCSS\u2019 Amy Irish was consulted for her expertise<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Christina Guessferd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; As the pandemic rages on, state leaders and mental health experts stress time and again that our young students are struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some school districts across Vermont have contended with violent or disruptive conflicts in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how can we help kids cope before negative behaviors escalate into a crisis putting the safety and education of our children in jeopardy? There\u2019s no one set of solutions but there is one system the state suggests every district adopt.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbisvermont.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It\u2019s a multitiered framework called PBIS, which stands for positive behavioral interventions and supports that\u2019s proving extremely successful in many Vermont schools.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years into the pandemic, PBIS data demonstrates what the state has been telling us&#8211; students are struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas only 15% of students typically need targeted supports, and about 5% require intensive supports, schools are now seeing those numbers tick up at least an additional 5%, meaning the PBIS pyramid is top-heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday on the Channel 3 News at 6 p.m., an examination of the targeted and intensive levels of support, why the growing need is straining school resources and how strengthening universal supports could be the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to entire segment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/12\/16\/preventing-classroom-conflicts-positive-behavioral-interventions-supports\/\">https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/12\/16\/preventing-classroom-conflicts-positive-behavioral-interventions-supports\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/12\/16\/preventing-classroom-conflicts-positive-behavioral-interventions-supports\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of a multi-segment series in which NCSS\u2019 Amy Irish was consulted for her expertise. By Christina Guessferd BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; As the pandemic rages on, state leaders and mental health experts stress time and again that our young students are struggling. Some school districts across Vermont have contended with violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}