Making a Difference in New Brunswick Schools
Positive Behaviour Intervention Supports (PBIS)
Building positive, predictable, safe, and inclusive learning environments for every learner.
Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a proactive, evidence-based framework that helps schools create environments where all learners can learn, belong, and thrive.
PBIS brings together people, practices, systems, and data to support positive behaviour, strong relationships, well-being, and learning across the whole school. Rather than waiting for behaviour challenges to occur, PBIS focuses on prevention, explicitly teaching expectations, strengthening relationships, recognizing positive behaviour, and providing additional support when learners need it.
PBIS is not a program or a single intervention. It is a framework that helps schools build a consistent, inclusive approach to supporting behaviour and learning.
What Does PBIS Involve?
Positive & Predictable Environements
Creating clear expectations, consistent routines, and supportive learning environments that help learners know what success looks like
Relationships & Belonging
Building strong connections and creating school communities where learners feel known, valued, respected, and included
Support for Every Learner
Using a multi-tiered approach to provide universal, targeted, and individualized supports based on learner needs.
Data-Informed & Culturally Responsive Practices Using data to guide decisions while ensuring that expectations and practices reflect the culture, context, and strengths of each school community.
Growing the PBIS Network
10 schools → 131 schools
From the original 10 PBIS Incubator Schools in 2022–2023, the network has grown to 131 schools in 2026–2027.
Schools across New Brunswick are working together to strengthen proactive, inclusive, relationship-centered approaches that support positive behaviour, belonging, well-being, and learning.
PBIS allows us to bring different teams at a school together to teach and support behaviour expectations. By supporting the specific needs of each school, district and by extension the larger school community through a personalized approach, we create effective support networks in our schools.
Deputy Minister Ryan Donaghy, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, New Brunswick, Canada