Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

At Olympic Middle School, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is part of our broader Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). PBIS helps us create a safe, welcoming, and purposeful learning environment where every student can belong, grow, and succeed.

Our schoolwide SOAR expectations guide how we learn, work, and treat one another:

• Safe
• Open
• Authentic
• Reliable

Students are explicitly taught what SOAR looks and sounds like in classrooms, hallways, common areas, and activities. Staff reinforce these expectations through modeling, discussion, practice, reminders, and reteaching throughout the year.

We recognize students when they make positive choices, contribute to our community, persevere through challenges, and demonstrate our SOAR values. Recognition may include encouraging feedback, positive communication with families, Eagle tickets, classroom celebrations, and schoolwide incentives.

PBIS is about more than behavior—it helps students develop responsibility, strengthen relationships, maximize learning, and become positive members of their school and community.

At OMS, we learn together, grow together, and SOAR together.