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Conclusion This chapter began with the question of whether PBIS is authentically culturally and linguistically responsive. The clear answer is no; PBIS was not originally intended to be culturally and linguistically responsive. Though we have made the case that PBIS is not authentically culturally and linguistically responsive, this framework is reassuringly compatible with cultural and linguistic responsiveness. You just need to intentionally and strategically align it to CLR. As noted, even the developers of PBIS acknowledge this in their own literature. Sugai and colleagues (2012) emphasize schools and districts need to ensure their PBIS frameworks have cultural and contextual fit, meaning they are culturally responsive. Therefore, though PBIS is not inherently culturally and linguistically responsive, but could and should be so, the next question is, “How can schools make a PBIS framework authentically culturally and linguistically responsive?” We will answer that question in the second half of this book, but before that, we must explore why schools need an authentic culturally and linguistically responsive PBIS.
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are situationally appropriate, instead of locking students into a preset system of rewards and consequences. For example, rather than following a continuum of consequences for rules violations, teachers using a CLR approach guide students to think about how they could better cooperate with shared principles of conduct and how they should be held accountable for not cooperating with shared behavioral expectations. Furthermore, instead of managing student behavior in a cookie-cutter fashion, teachers tailor positive acknowledgment and behavior accountability to each individual student’s needs, similar to the logical consequences model promoted in Fay and Funk’s (2016) love and logic approach. That is to say, in a CLR approach, teachers handle disciplinary situations on a fluid, caseby-case basis with the intent of helping students learn from the situations.
