Teaching To A Riot

It’s time we prioritize interventions and universal supports over rewards and punishments.

We need to focus on ACCESSIBILITY over sticker charts or “caught being good” tokens.

Research is coming out that PBIS teaches complacency to civic responsibility and issues of social justice, focuses students on the reward over the process, and increases feelings of shame and lack of competence.

ACCESSIBILITY through UNIVERSAL SUPPORTS needs to be emphasized more than the PBIS framework- ACCESSIBILITY.

After a decade of using PBIS and seeing rewards INCREASE negative behaviors in our most vulnerable students I say it’s time to retire the reward system that is the bedrock of PBIS.

If you are struggling using PBIS in the classroom, either morally or strategically try using Universal Supports!

Universal Supports and Design or Universal Design for Learning is mostly taught to special education teachers.

It is not prioritized in general education as it should be.
And it’s wayyy more than setting “clear expectations”.

There are hundreds of universal support strategies out there that take very little time and energy.

Like:
Using student surveys
Timers
Visuals
Graphic organizers
Sentence/question stems
Total Participation Techniques
Gesturing
I have condensed 200 of these strategies and all of the understanding teachers need to apply each one effectively, AND included an easy to understand behavioral assessment.

I put everything in a Toolkit Bundle and included:

👉Lesson Plans
👉Checklists
👉Graphic organizers and other printable supports
👉 Question and Answer stems
👉 Interviews
👉 and a workshop

It is all in the BUNDLE.

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