{"id":450877,"date":"2026-09-02T08:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:56:25","slug":"13-lbusd-schools-earn-state-honors-for-positive-campus-culture-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450877\/","title":{"rendered":"13 LBUSD schools earn state honors for positive campus culture \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

The academic year is underway,<\/a> and officials with the Long Beach Unified School District are already celebrating how their campuses are welcoming, supportive places for students to learn and grow.<\/p>\n

Thirteen Long Beach Unified School District campuses earned 2026 California Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Recognition, according to a recent press release. The honor, district officials said, highlights schools\u2019 work to create positive, supportive and inclusive learning environments where students can thrive.<\/p>\n

The California recognition program celebrates thousands of schools statewide that are implementing PBIS, a schoolwide framework that helps campuses establish consistent expectations, reinforce positive behavior, and strengthen conditions for teaching and learning, according to the organization\u2019s website<\/a>. For the 2025-26 school year, nearly 2,700 schools were recognized.<\/p>\n

Five LBUSD schools received gold recognition, and eight received silver recognition for implementing PBIS, the press release said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery student deserves to be seen, known, challenged, supported and encouraged with care, regardless of where that student begins,\u201d Superintendent David Zaid said in a statement. \u201cThese schools are moving from values to action, creating positive school cultures and setting conditions for student success. I\u2019m proud of our site Culture & Climate Teams, students and families for bringing that commitment to life every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The schools that received gold recognition were Bret Harte Elementary, Powell Academy for Success, Stevenson Elementary, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary and Webster Elementary.<\/p>\n

The schools that received silver recognition were MacArthur Park Elementary, Starr King Elementary, Jane Addams Elementary, Stephens Middle, Prisk Elementary, Riley Elementary, Cleveland Elementary and Barton Elementary.<\/p>\n

The recognition provides a tangible measure of the work underway across LBUSD to strengthen school climate and support positive student behavior, district officials said. Through PBIS, school teams use proactive, evidence-based practices to build consistent systems of support and to respond to students\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n

The recognized schools will be featured on the California PBIS website at pbisca.org<\/a> and celebrated during the annual California PBIS Conference in Sacramento in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The academic year is underway, and officials with the Long Beach Unified School District are already celebrating how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,23,131,133,132,49733,137],"class_list":["post-450877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-local-news","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-unified-school-district","tag-los-angeles-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}