PB4L - PLD Staff Meeting with Linda Ahokava

PB4L is all about teaching behaviours that we want students to present as opposed to focusing on behaviours not appropriate.  Our school began our PB4L journey last year and we have implemented a variety strategies to reinforce behaviours that contribute to a school environments that are positive, caring and safe.  Our school culture has grown partly as a result of the implementation of the PB4L programme and this includes a spin off with positive staff relationships by way of collegiality and support.
PB4L focuses on teaching expected behaviours.   The introduction slide to our session read:
 If a student doesn't know how to read, we teach.
If a student doesn't know how to swim, we teach.
If a student doesn't know how to multiply, we teach.
If a student doesn't know how to behave, we punish. 

The systems we have put in place include:

• giving students tokens for displaying PB4L during class time or in the playground. The tokens are valued as 'house point' and the points system is collated throughout the term.
• the winning house are rewarded at the end of each term with a treat of their choice - e.g: colour shirt day & pizza.
• giving students assembly awards for displaying our school values of Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga, Tukumarie, Ako and Rangimaire.
• if students are recognised as consistently displaying the school values, they will receive a values badge correlating to the value they are displaying. 

The benefits we have seen since we have put PB4L in place are:

- Improvements in academic engagement & attainment

- Improvements in behaviour

- Improved school & teacher capability

- Improved teacher confidence & satisfaction

- Improved school climate and perceptions of organisational health and safety

- Improved relationships between staff, students & whanau/ community

- Improved targeting of students for specialist service referral

- Reduced major disciplinary infractions

- Reduced teacher reported bullying behaviour