Established in 2001 in response to Senate Bill 1196, the Texas Behavior Support
Initiative (TBSI) is designed to build capacity in Texas schools for the provision of positive behavioral support (PBS) to all students. The goal of PBS is to enhance the capacity of schools to educate all students, especially students with challenging behaviors, by adopting a sustained, positive, preventative instructional approach to schoolwide discipline and behavior management. This approach focuses on teaching and encouraging positive schoolwide behavioral expectations and increasing school capacity to support sustained use of empirically validated practices.

The TBSI training modules are designed to assist campus teams in developing and implementing a wide range of behavior strategies and prevention-based interventions. These skills help educators establish schoolwide, classroom and individual student level systems of support. The TBSI: Schoolwide PBS Project and TBSI Interventions for Statewide with severe behavior were developed based on needs assessment data collected during the 2002-03 school year.