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PAX Good Behavior Game

The PAX Good Behavior Game (PAX GBG) is a school-based universal preventive intervention used to teach self-regulation, self-management and self-control in children. PAX GBG provides educators with strategies to teach social-emotional and behavioral skills along with academics creating a trauma informed nurturing environment. In fact, PAX GBG has been proven to change student brain chemistry with life-long effects that dramatically impact mental health, substance abuse, graduation rates and suicide in our children and communities.

What is PAX?

PAX is a set of easy-to-use strategies implemented in the classroom that teaches Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ self-regulation, self-control, and self-management in the context of collaborating with others for peace, productivity, health, and happiness.

How does The PAX Good Behavior Game work?

1. PAX helps Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ and adults develop a common language and understanding of behavior expectations across all school settings. The teacher and Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ create a visual map of what they would see, hear, do, and feel more and less of in a wonderful classroom.
2. Adults learn to teach Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ self-regulation, self-control, and self-management through evidence-based strategies. Teachers use trauma-informed cues to promote pro-social behavior and prevent maladaptive behavior.
3. With PAX, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ learn how to stop and think before transitioning to different environments and develop a growth mindset regarding improving behavior. Teachers help children view themselves and their peers as “PAX Leaders” who are capable, kind, and successful Ñý¼§Ö±²¥.
4. Teachers create cooperative student groups that play the Good Behavior Game during the school day to increase classroom peace, productivity, health, and happiness.
5. Through PAX, children learn to turn their attention voluntarily, manage excitement, handle distractions and disappointments, and cooperate for common goals with other people of differing abilities and skills.

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