{"id":4400,"date":"2024-04-19T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/studentservices\/?page_id=4400"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:13:32","slug":"par-behavior-framework","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/studentservices\/par-behavior-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"PAR Behavior Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The mission of Lincoln Public Schools is to prepare ALL students for successful careers, lifelong learning, and civic engagement. In order to prepare all students, Lincoln Public Schools is committed to positive behavior grounded in supports for ALL students that build strong and safe school communities. Supports for student wellbeing and positive behavior have a direct impact on instructional outcomes, school climate, and safety. Using evidence-based practices to support student behavior promotes equitable outcomes for all students.<\/p>

This comprehensive PK-12 framework is designed to equip teachers, staff, administrators, and stakeholders with the tools, strategies, and practices necessary to cultivate a positive and supportive environment. Understanding and effectively managing behavior is fundamental to creating a learning environment where students can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. This handbook aims to provide a structured framework that encompasses evidence-based practices, preventative strategies, consistent and clear accountability, and restorative approaches to address behavior in educational settings.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Early Childhood Behavior Framework (Appendix 12) specifically addresses the approaches, responses and interventions used in Lincoln Public Schools preschool classrooms in a continuum of prevention, promotion and intervention. While it may seem to be a straightforward matter of simply applying the K-12 framework to the youngest students in LPS, the reality is preschool students have unique needs and the Early Childhood Behavior Framework is comprised of evidence-based practices for young children which include effective instruction, strategies to promote engagement and appropriate behavior, promotion of young children\u2019s social skills and emotional competencies, as well as the implementation of assessment-based behavior support plans for young children with the most severe behavior challenges. The Early Childhood Behavior Framework is implemented in all LPS preschool classrooms as it addresses the specific, unique, and developmental needs and levels of our youngest students.<\/p>

Additionally, the Nebraska Student Discipline Act (Revised by LB 705, 2023) was a foundational piece during the development of the framework: \u201cThe Student Discipline Act\u2019s purpose is to assure protection of all elementary and secondary school students\u2019 constitutional rights to due process and fundamental fairness within the context of an orderly and effective educational process.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The primary purpose of this handbook is to:<\/p>