GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS & TERMS
P.B.I.S.
CASSP
Children & Adolescent Support Service Program
Check and Connect
Mentoring program/Strategy to provide support to targeted level students
CCSI
Coordinated Children’s Service Initiative
County operated service for families and students with complex needs
Coach
Designated person on PBIS team, either internal or external to building, who promotes
success of team through facilitation and guidance.
Cool Tool
Lesson plan for teaching behavioral expectations
CTC
Communities That Care
CTIC
Coaches (External) Team Implementation Checklist
Completed by the External Coach three times a year (Oct, Jan, April)
EBS
Effective Behavioral Supports
Used synonymously with PBIS
EBS-SAS
Effective Behavior Support Self Assessment Survey
Annual assessment of school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and individual behavior
practices by building staff.
FBA
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Systematic process of identifying problem behaviors, and the events that predict and
maintain those behaviors.
FISBA
Family Involvement Strength-based Assessment
Tool to measure the strength of family involvement in the school.
FTNYS
Families Together in New York State
Non-profit organization working for family involvement and family support
Gotcha
Paper acknowledgement of “catching” a kid demonstrating positive behavior.
Intensive / Tertiary / Tier 3
Third tier, top of the PBIS triangle. Students in need of intensive behavioral and/or
academic supports.
NNPS
National Network of Partnership of Schools
NYSDOH
ODR
New York State Department of Health
Office Discipline Referral
Means of reporting and keeping track of discipline infractions.
OMH
Office of Mental Health
OSEP
Office of Special Education Programs
PBIS
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
PBS
Positive Behavioral Supports
Another name for PBIS..
Reinforcer
Tangible and intangible acknowledgements for positive behavior.
SBHC
School-based Health Clinic
SED
State Education Department
SET
School wide Evaluation Tool
Performed by RPS to assess school’s implementation of PBIS.
SWIS
School wide Information System
Web-based data collection system for office discipline referrals.
Targeted / Secondary / Tier 2
Second tier of the PBIS triangle. Students in need of additional behavioral and/or
academic supports
TIC
Team Implementation Checklist
Completed by consensus of Universal team members three times a year: Oct, Jan, April.
Universal / Primary / Tier 1
First level of the PBIS triangle. Students without serious problem behaviors.
VESID
Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities
Department within State Education Department (SED) in Albany.
Wraparound
Strength-based process with family and youth ownership in intervention plan
development for students at Intensive level
Developed & written by Linda C. Brown, Regional PBIS
Specialist, Mid-state Region. 2004
Revised June 2009. LCB