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Benefits of Schoolwide Positive Behaviour Support

SWPBS emphasises the use of preventative, teaching, and reinforcement-based strategies to achieve meaningful and durable behaviour outcomes.

Consistent language and predictable consequences applied by all staff, at all times, in all locations in the school is key to the program's success with students. These expectations and consequences are also shared with parents.

SWPBS forms the basis of a consistent whole-school system and supports the Department of Education and Training priority to promote positive behaviour in schools.

Through SWPBS, schools have access to the resources and tools they need to make evidence-based decisions about additional program and professional development needs for staff. SWPBS schools are more likely to achieve effective results from other programs and professional development such as the Department's Essential Skills for Classroom Management.

The active engagement of parents in meaningful activities in the school is important. Historically, family involvement in behaviour programming has occurred mainly at the level of individualised interventions for students with high support needs. SWPBS schools make a conscious effort to broaden the involvement of families at the schoolwide level, and have identified many activities in which parents can play an expanded and important role.

All SWPBS leadership teams contain at least one family representative and one member of the Parents and Citizens Association. These representatives have provided a stable platform for the sustainability and durability of the leadership team, especially in schools with higher staff turnover. The active involvement of parents helps ensure that the academic and social competency outcomes of SWPBS processes are endorsed by educators, students, families and the broader community.

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