Strategy 23: School-wide strategies: ‘Create a multi-tiered system to prevent or minimize problem behaviours’

Increasingly, in the past decade or so, attention has been paid to how the school as an organization impacts on the behaviour and achievement of its students, in particular how school-based universal interventions can be harnessed. For example, two recent reviews found that school-wide programmes that focussed on social and emotional learning had positive outcomes for learners’ social and emotional skills, attitudes towards self and others, conduct problems, behaviour and academic performance.1