Bluffton Middle School
Bluffton designed their PBIS matrix around their cultural values: Balance, Leadership, Motivation, and Service.
Submitted by Jenn Collins, PBIS Lead & Teacher
About Their Behavior Rubric
Bluffton Middle School is in South Carolina’s Beaufort County School District. They designed their PBIS matrix around the following values:
BalanceLeadershipMotivationServiceBluffton’s PBIS team selected these values because they are indicative of the school’s culture, which they wanted to be the foundation of their PBIS work.
Location-Based Behavior Rubric
To build the rubric categories, Bluffton opted to focus on locations in the school:
HallwayClassroomRestroomCafeteriaAssemblyLibraryBusFlex/FieldsThen, Balance, Leadership, Motivation, and Service are the rubric items under each. Having a rubric with more generic rubric items simplifies the process of recording points for teachers. Teachers can easily select the value that best fits a behavior, rather than scrolling through a long list of the multitude of positive and negative behaviors students can take in a certain location.
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