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How Do Staff Perceive Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports? Implications for Teams in Planning and Implementing Schools
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Feuerborn, Laura L.; Tyre, Ashli D. – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) offers an alternative to reactive and exclusionary school discipline practices. However, the shift to SWPBS requires substantial change in the practices of staff, and many leadership teams struggle to rally staff support for implementation. With a more thorough understanding of staff perceptions, level…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Teacher Attitudes, Program Development, Program Implementation
Factor Validation of the Staff Perceptions of Behavior and Discipline (SPBD) Survey
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Feuerborn, Laura L.; Tyre, Ashli D.; Zecevic, Mladen – Remedial and Special Education, 2019
The implementation of schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports (SWPBIS) requires a shift from a reliance on reactionary discipline to prevention-oriented supports, and it requires that staff adopt and regularly apply the practices throughout the building. This level of systemic change in staff thinking and practice is challenging to…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Middle Schools
The Minority Report: The Concerns of Staff Opposed to Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in Their Schools
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Tyre, Ashli D.; Feuerborn, Laura L. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2017
Low staff support for schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports (SWPBIS) is a barrier to implementation and sustainability. In this qualitative study, we identify staff opposed to SWPBIS among staff in 36 schools across 9 districts in western Washington. Nonsupportive staff (n = 44) are compared to supportive staff (n = 1,166) on…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, School Personnel, Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis
The Staff Perceptions of Behavior and Discipline Survey: A Tool to Help Achieve Systemic Change through Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support
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Feuerborn, Laura L.; Tyre, Ashli D.; King, Joe P. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2015
The practices of schoolwide positive behavior support (SWPBS) are dependent on staff implementation in classroom and common areas throughout the school. Thus, gaining the support and commitment of school staff is a critical step toward reaching full implementation of SWPBS. However, achieving buildingwide support can be challenging; many schools…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Discipline, Behavior Modification, Intervention
A Qualitative Analysis of Middle and High School Teacher Perceptions of Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports
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Feuerborn, Laura L.; Wallace, Caroline; Tyre, Ashli D. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2016
Full stakeholder support for any innovation can be difficult to achieve, particularly in complex systems such as middle and high schools. Increasingly, obtaining middle and high school teacher support for Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS) is identified as a challenging yet crucial element of implementation. The reasons behind these…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Middle Schools, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers