PBIS - Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
We are a PBIS & Bucket Filling school. PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Our school operates on the following five key “WHITTIER WAYS”:
Respect
Responsibility
Safety
Preparedness
Cooperation
All students are to be respectful of themselves and others. Students are expected to practice responsibility in being safe, cooperative, and good choice-making behaviors. Students earn “Dream Dollars” to use throughout the year at our PBIS store as well as various events that will occur to celebrate their positive behaviors at Whittier.
Students are given opportunities to fill one another’s buckets with kind words and compliments. Students at Whittier are proud to be held to high standards of civility and anti-bullying behavior. We work to instill civic responsibility and caring for others as a part of our mission. At Whittier, it’s cool to be nice!
Students will also be held accountable anytime they choose not to comply with being respectful, responsible, safe, prepared, or cooperative.
"The Whittier Way"
Whittier Primary School Behavioral Expectations
Expectations | Hallways | Recess | Bathroom | Lunch | Classroom & Computer Lab | Bus | Assembly | Emergency |
Respectful | Quiet Zone | Listen to playground monitors | Leave bathroom clean | Say please thank you and excuse me | Speak quietly | Listen to bus drivers and monitor | Listen to speaker | Listen to all adults |
Responsible | Walk in straight line | Stay on the correct side | Be quick and neat | Clean up after self | Materials are ready, clean up area | Get off at correct stop | Sit with legs crossed | Stay in your line or your group |
Safe | Eyes looking forward | Play nice | Keep hands and feet to self | Hands to your side | keep hands, feet and objects to self | Stay seated | Keep hands and feet to self | Walk quicly and quietly |
Prepared | hands at your side or behind your back | Be a good sport | Wait your turn quietly | Stay seated | Sit in assigned seat | Know your bus number | Stay seated | Stay calm and be alert |
Cooperative | Personal Space | Play nicely | Enter & Exit quietly | Raise hand to ask questions | Give me 5 | Follow all directions | Follow all directions | Go to your safe place and remain until all clear signal |