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Faribault High credits PBIS, restorative practices for big drop in suspensions and referrals
Summary
Faribault High School staff told the school board that a first-year PBIS rollout and restorative-practices training corresponded with a 42% drop in behavioral referrals and an 84% drop in suspension days compared with the previous year.
Faribault High School principal Nate Mader told the Faribault Public School District board on March 16 that the school’s first year of implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and sustained restorative-practices training has coincided with large reductions in discipline measures.
Mader said behavioral referrals fell from 384 at the same point last year to 220 this year — roughly a 42% reduction — and days of suspension fell from 235 to 37, an approximately 84% drop. "We are not lowering the bar for behavior, but instead students are rising to meet our expectation," Mader said.
Mader, joined by assistant principals Allison Sweeney and Joel Timmer, described PBIS…
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