PBIS Leadership & System Support 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which leadership practice best ensures PBIS implementation fidelity over time?
- Rotating leadership roles annually to prevent burnout
- Embedding PBIS into district policy and resource allocation (Correct answer)
- Relying on a single champion to sustain the initiative
- Limiting PBIS training to new staff only
Correct answer: Embedding PBIS into district policy and resource allocation
Embedding PBIS into district policy and resource allocation creates systemic structures that sustain implementation beyond individual champions.
Question 2: What is the primary role of a PBIS district leadership team?
- Directly coaching individual teachers on classroom management
- Coordinating support, resources, and alignment across schools (Correct answer)
- Conducting functional behavioral assessments for students
- Writing individualized behavior intervention plans
Correct answer: Coordinating support, resources, and alignment across schools
The district leadership team coordinates resources, policies, and supports across schools to enable building-level implementation.
Question 3: When a principal actively participates in PBIS team meetings, this demonstrates which leadership behavior?
- Micromanagement of staff duties
- Visible administrative commitment and modeling (Correct answer)
- Delegation of all behavior management to counselors
- Compliance monitoring only
Correct answer: Visible administrative commitment and modeling
Principal participation signals administrative commitment and models the collaborative problem-solving central to PBIS.
Question 4: A school PBIS team reviews data showing Tier 2 interventions are not reducing office referrals. What should leadership do first?
- Eliminate the Tier 2 interventions that are failing
- Examine implementation fidelity before changing the intervention (Correct answer)
- Increase punitive consequences for repeat offenders
- Move all Tier 2 students directly to Tier 3
Correct answer: Examine implementation fidelity before changing the intervention
Leaders must first determine whether the intervention was implemented as intended before concluding it is ineffective.
Question 5: Which of the following is a key indicator that leadership is sustaining PBIS with high fidelity?
- PBIS posters are displayed throughout the building
- Dedicated time for data-based team meetings is protected in the schedule (Correct answer)
- The school purchased a new behavior tracking software
- Staff can recite the school rules from memory
Correct answer: Dedicated time for data-based team meetings is protected in the schedule
Protected time for data-based decision making is a structural indicator of genuine leadership commitment to PBIS sustainability.
Question 6: A PBIS leadership team wants to build staff buy-in for universal screening. Which strategy is most effective?
- Mandating participation without explaining the rationale
- Sharing data showing how early identification benefits students (Correct answer)
- Limiting screening decisions to administrators only
- Piloting screening only in the highest-need classrooms
Correct answer: Sharing data showing how early identification benefits students
Sharing data that connects screening to positive student outcomes builds genuine staff understanding and investment.
Question 7: In PBIS, what does the term 'active supervision' mean in the context of leadership support?
- Administrators reviewing student discipline records quarterly
- Leaders and staff moving, scanning, and interacting in common areas to prevent problems (Correct answer)
- Teachers standing at classroom doors during transitions
- Using surveillance cameras to monitor hallway behavior
Correct answer: Leaders and staff moving, scanning, and interacting in common areas to prevent problems
Active supervision is a proactive strategy involving movement, scanning, and positive interaction in settings where problem behavior is likely.
PBIS Leadership & System Support 2
Which leadership practice best ensures PBIS implementation fidelity over time?