The goal of PBIS is to prevent problem behaviors by encouraging students to choose appropriate behaviors. When PBIS strategies are implemented well: student behavior success rates increase while challenging behaviors, office referrals, and disciplinary actions decrease; students feel more positively toward their teachers, administrators and schools; students feel safer in their schools; students spend more time participating in instructional activities and less time removed from instruction due to disciplinary actions; teachers spend more time delivering academic instruction and less time responding to student behavior; and academic outcomes improve.