Includes bibliographical references and index.

Integrating a schoolwide positive behavioral support system (PBSS) blueprint into an effective schools process -- School readiness and the steps for PBSS implementation -- School discipline/PBSS amd other committees: effective team and group functioning -- Behavioral accountability, student motivation, and staff consistency -- Teaching social, emotional, and behavioral skills -- School safety and crisis prevention, intervention, and response -- Teasing, taunting, bullying, harassment, hazing, and physicla aggression -- Functional assessment and why students become behaviorally challenging -- Behavioral interventions for students with strategic and intensive needs -- Evaluating and sustaining PBSS outcomes.