Rural schools have both strengths and challenges to face when educating students. For example, rural settings might have less access to resources compared to schools in other geographical areas. Rural schools often have difficulty hiring and retaining highly qualified staff, such as special education teachers and school psychologists, often the staff who have the expertise to address unique or intensive student challenges. However, rural settings have strengths that they can draw from, such as strong community and family involvement. This brief helps schools engaging in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) by using a problem-solving process to match their interventions with available resources and enhance their ability to work smarter, not harder. It shows how rural schools can draw on their strengths to help address barriers and create positive and lasting student outcomes. After introducing the PBIS framework and the "Working Smarter Matrix," this brief presents two problem-solving scenarios that show how a school leadership team problem-solved using the matrix to help identify relevant resources.