#vted Reads about PBIS, with Thomas Knestrict by The 21st Century Classroom

Listener, how do you feel about positive interventions, behaviors and supports? I don't mean in general -- in general those all sound fine and dandy -- but when they come within 100 yards of a school, they turn into P B I S. And that's another ball of wax entirely.

Today author Thomas Knestrict joins me on the show. We're going to talk about his book Controlling Our Children: Hegemony and Deconstructing the Positive Behavior Intervention Support Model. If that sounds like a hot n' flossy title, then listeners you are in for a treat. And even if it doesn't, you're in for a treat anyway, especially if you, like me and like Dr. Knestrict, are deeply suspicious of the PBIS model.

(Spoiler: we're deeply suspicious of the PBIS model.)

That said, we do try to be fair in examining what PBIS can and can't do for Vermont students.

(Okay, we're mostly fair.)

But I'm still Jeanie Phillips, and this is still Vermont ed Reads: books by, for and with Vermont educators. Let's chat.

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