What is a prevention framework?
A framework as used here is a way to organize and prioritize actions schools can take to improve their effectiveness. In our case the three tiered "prevention" framework permits schools to identify and focus interventions on students based on their levels of need: certain prevention oriented interventions for all students, more focused interventions for selected or targeted students who are at risk or showing signs of difficulty, and finally, intense intervention for students who are clearly having chronic difficulty. While this framework may require certain core elements such as those on the PBIS elements listed below, it also permits other interventions to be included within the overall plan by identifying the appropriate tier of the intervention, and how it would impact students in that tier.