PBIS & JOSTENS RENAISSANCE

PBIS or Jostens Renaissance?

The short answer: you don’t need to choose one!

PBIS and Jostens Renaissance contribute to a comprehensive approach to student success and well-being, and they are even more powerful when used together.

Jostens Renaissance emphasizes the importance of culture and motivation through its focus on respect, recognition, and rewards, creating a positive and encouraging environment for students.

PBIS complements this by addressing behavioral expectations and reinforcing positive interactions, essential for maintaining a supportive school climate.

Some Definitions May Be Helpful

• Jostens Renaissance: A school culture and climate framework emphasizing positive recognition, relationship-building, and reinforcing desired behavior’s to foster belonging, respect, and resilience. It uses rewards and results to enhance student motivation and school pride.
• PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports): A proactive behavior management approach that promotes positive behavior through explicit teaching, rewards, and structured reinforcement. PBIS creates a respectful and supportive school environment that helps prevent problem behavior. PBIS focuses on prevention and instruction, acknowledging and rewarding appropriate and positive behavior – establishing a whole school social culture and a positive climate for learning.
• MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports): An integrated framework offering academic, behavioral, and social-emotional support through a tiered system. MTSS uses data-driven decision-making to provide differentiated levels of support, meeting each student’s needs to encourage personal and academic growth.
  • RTI (Response to Intervention): A subset within MTSS focusing on identifying and supporting students struggling with academic and behavioral challenges. RTI uses assessments and targeted instruction to address students’ unique needs through gradually intensifying interventions.

Jostens Renaissance tools and resources can be used to support the implementation of PBIS at the Tier One (primary) level in schools.  Tier One provides school-wide culturally relevant systems of support with solid relationships.

Identity and Behavioral Expectations

PBIS begins with defining school-wide behavioral expectations. However, schools that take the time to clearly define their identity (what they respect and value), find that their behavioral expectations have deeper roots. As with humans, school communities that have a clear sense of strengths and weaknesses, and who have a strong compass, are able to act with more confidence and authority.

Jostens has resources to help with this identity-finding process, including:

• The Jostens SchoolMark “define it” process, which includes a survey and consultations with identity experts. Email SchoolMark@jostens.com to learn more.
• The Renaissance School Culture Survey or The Pulse recognition survey to establish baseline data around how the school culture feels

Once a school has defined their behavioral expectations, the next step for PBIS implementation is to reinforce them. Jostens Renaissance can support this process in several ways.

The Jostens Renaissance Results Formula™

The Results Formula™ creates a framework that can support PBIS schools. It’s flexible, so schools apply it to their community’s specific goals, whether focusing on behavior, academics or general culture and climate.

Resources to Support PBIS

Jostens Renaissance has many resources to help with teaching and reinforcing behavioral expectations, including

Becoming your best self. One episode at a time.

Jostens Renaissance Character and Wellness videos facilitate the teaching of character development by showcasing tangible life lessons through engaging video content and discussion guides.

REAL-WORLD SKILLS FOR SCHOOL AND BEYOND 

Project-based and engaging, the Leadership Curriculum combines the study of leadership with the action of building a healthy school-wide culture and climate.

ENRICH SCHOOL CULTURE ONE MONTH AT A TIME

Each month, find and select one or more of the recommended activities to support culture and climate, relationship-building, character development, academic achievement and educator morale.

Topics like bullying, problem solving, integrity, conflict resolution, empathy and navigating difficult conversations and many others are included in these resources and could easily be utilized to teach positive behaviors to students.

Wait – There’s More!

The last step in implementing PBIS at the Tier One level is to design systems for positive acknowledgment and reinforcement.  Jostens Renaissance has dozens of ideas in this area.

As well as specific Renaissance strategies, such as:

• Renaissance Rallies
• Renaissance cards/points incentive program
• Student and Staff of the Month
• Positive Principal Referral
• Perfect Attendance Recognition

Jostens Renaissance and PBIS are a perfect match and blend together seamlessly to transform schools! The PDF below can be downloaded for use in conversations with stakeholders.

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