Culturally Responsive Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (CRPBIS) is an ongoing statewide research project founded by Dr. Aydin Bal in 2011. The purpose of CRPBIS is to re-mediate school cultures that reproduce behavioral outcome disparities and marginalization of non-dominant students and families. CRPBIS project is conducted at the

Wisconsin Center for Education Research Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, is an education research center founded in 1964 as a branch of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. WCER currently has extr ...

at the School of Education,

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. CRPBIS develops, utilizes, and researches processes and interventions such as

Learning Lab Learning Lab (LL) is a research methodology developed in 2011 by Aydin Bal that provides research-based guidelines for local stakeholders to develop productive family-school-community partnerships and design behavioral support systems that are c ...

to create locally meaningful and sustainable systemic transformations together with local stakeholders (educators, families, students, community representatives). Learning Lab is an innovative methodology of systemic transformation, informed by

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) is a theoretical framework which helps to understand and analyse the relationship between the human mind (what people think and feel) and activity (what people do). It traces its origins to the founders of ...

(CHAT) (Bal, 2015; Engestrom, 2008). As a part of CRPBIS project, local schools create their own decision-making teams with members of their communities to identify and understand systemic problems (e.g., racial disproportionality in school disciplinary actions) within their own schools, propose new solutions, and examine the effectiveness of their solutions.

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* {{official website, www.crpbis.org University of Wisconsin–Madison Educational research