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Positive Behavioral Interventions And Supports In High Schools: A Case Study From New Hampshire, Hank Bohanon, Joanne Malloy, Kathy Francoeur Jan 2017

Positive Behavioral Interventions And Supports In High Schools: A Case Study From New Hampshire, Hank Bohanon, Joanne Malloy, Kathy Francoeur

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

The quality of a school’s social environment is critically related to student outcomes, including academic performance, attendance, student behavior, and high school completion rates. New Hampshire engaged in a dropout prevention initiative between 2006 and 2012 that focused on implementation of the multi-tiered Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework combined with an intensive, student-driven school-to-adult life transition intervention for the highest-need youth. This paper presents a case study of how one high school in the New Hampshire dropout prevention project implemented PBIS at all three tiers of support: school-wide, targeted, and intensive. The case study includes a description of …