School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS) provides an organizational approach or framework for improving the social behavior climate of the schools and supporting or enhancing the impact of academic instruction on achievement and increasing proactive (positive/preventive) management.                       

SWPBS is comprised of evidence-based behavioral interventions and practices that can be implemented by real users to effectively address and support the socially and educationally important behavioral needs of students and their families.

SWPBS has its conceptual foundations in

·       Behavioral Theory - Behavior is learned, lawful, and manipulable

·       Applied Behavior Analysis - Behavioral theory is applied to socially  important observable behaviors in the context of the applied settings in which they are observed

·       Positive Behavior Support – Behavioral supports  are considered in the larger context

of improvement of quality of life 

(George Sugai, School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: Overview. October 2, 2008)