Life Habits

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidenced-based three-tiered framework for improving and integrating all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day. It is a way to support all students to create the kind of school where all students are successful.

PBIS isn’t a curriculum you purchase or something you learn during a one-day professional development training. It is a commitment to addressing student behavior through system change. When it’s implemented well, students achieve improved social and academic outcomes, schools experience reduced exclusionary discipline practices, and school personnel feel more effective.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

SEL addresses five broad and interrelated areas of competence: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

LifeLeader articulates the attributes that we want to develop in our students and ourselves. It is a common language that makes it easier for us to understand each other and focuses our efforts.

Character education is not something that we pause instruction to do – is integrated in everything we do. The fifteen LifeLeader attributes are critical thinking, global perspective, information literacy, collaborative, effective communicator, ethical leadership, humility, problem solver, social awareness, citizenship, financial literacy, goal-oriented, resilient, self-aware, and self-managed.