SVUSD's focus on improving student academic and behavior outcomes includes ensuring all students have access to effective instructional and behavioral practices and interventions. 

Our district-wide integrated behavior system, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, is an evidence-based, three-tiered framework for improving and integrating all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes . When implemented with fidelity, PBIS improves social emotional competence, academic success, and school climate. As part of PBIS, every school establishes clear expectations for the behavior expected in all classrooms and areas of school. Students are explicitly taught these expectations, and schools apply positive reinforcement and consistent consequences. Our districtwide expectations are: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible.

PBIS is not a curriculum, intervention, or practice, but is a decision-making framework that guides selection, integration, and implementation of the best evidence-based academic and behavioral practices for improving important academic and social behavior outcomes for all students.

Three major components of PBIS:

• Teaching appropriate behavior in all settings: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible

• Interventions when behavior expectations are not met

• Recognition when behaviors are demonstrated