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make kids smarter.
To foster good study habits,
encourage a love of learning,
and help prepare them for those nasty standardized tests.
But mental intelligence
isn't everything. If it were,
there might be perfectly brilliant scientists
and financial wizards out there
dressing inappropriately to important meetings,
robbing their own loved ones blind,
or doing unsafe things on the roof
of a moving vehicle.
What it comes down to is that
social behavior is every bit as important
as growing those brain cells.
You can rack up a whole wall full of fancy-sounding degrees,
but if you don't know how to conduct yourself
in the real world, you're gonna have a rough time of it.
And that's where PBIS comes in.
First of all, since you're probably dying to know
what that acronym stands for,
here it is: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support.
Anyway, basically, PBIS is a framework that looks
to work with young learners,
instilling in them from the get-go
the important concepts of respect,
responsibility, reliablity,
safety, tolerance, and so on
so that they grow up to be emotionally and socially
well-rounded individuals
rather than just walking, talking brains on a stick.
Although that'd be kind of cool in a way.
All right, well, the program is preventative,
meaning teachers and admins don't wait for kids
to develop issues before they step in.
It's all about taking raw, unmolded human beings
and giving them the tools to do well in life.
And hopefully to stay out of prison.
PBIS works with administrators, parents, and teachers
to form a community within schools,
a network of concerned adults
who are all on the same page when it comes to
providing for their students' success.
Because PBIS is so involved and hands-on,
each school can tailor its program to its needs,
focusing on the areas they deem most important.
Maybe one school thinks tolerance
is uber important, but safety --
eh, they can take it or leave it.
Well, their students will receive behavioral instruction
when it comes to tolerance,
provided they don't fall off the monkey bars and break a leg first.
That's not good.
Needless to say, Shmoop's totally on board
with all this stuff. We're big believers
in a person's education being a holistic thing.
You can't just take a child,
jam their minds full of facts,
and expect them to have it all together
later in life.
So to that end, we are offering a product that includes
short courses as well as teaching guides.
Students will be able to interface with the courses
while the guides are more like scripted lesson plans
that teachers can utilize in the classroom
to supplement their teaching.
We'll break down all the social, cultural,
and behavioral issues that PBIS focuses on
and drill down until we can't drill down any further
or we get to China. Whichever comes first.
So if a student needs particular help
in certain areas - say they're getting into
fights in the cafeteria or they're having
a hard time wrapping their head around the idea of
backpack ownership,
Shmoop will be there to lend a helping hand.
Or if a school simply wants to take
more preventative action and introduce its students
to all these concepts upfront,
well, that works, too.
As educators, we're thinkers.
But let's not forget that we're all human beings, too,
with complicated emotions, fears,
anxieties, inhibitions,
and backgrounds.
Shmoop and PBIS will uncomplicate them
so that we can all be happy, whole,
and well-balanced.
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