Aligning CLR with PBIS Workshop: Enhancing Your PBIS with Validation and Affirmation

Though schools implementing PBIS have demonstrated improvement in creating positive and welcoming school environments, as well as reducing the usage of office disciplinary referrals (ODRs), suspensions, and expulsions, this achievement has not been equitably distributed amongst different ethnic and racial groups. For example, despite the implementation of PBIS with fidelity, Black students are still overrepresented in exclusionary discipline at three times the rate of White students. To mitigate this racial disparity and, most importantly, transform school environments so that they are truly positive and welcoming to ALL students, PBIS must be aligned with CLR. This workshop will examine how PBIS is not inherently CLR but share how it could be made CLR.