To read more about PAX Good Behavior Game research, go to www.pubmed.gov and search “PeaceBuilders” (Dr. Embry’s earlier youth violence prevention program whose successes have informed PAX GBG), “Good Behavior Game,” and “evidence-based kernels.”

Cultural background can affect just about every important factor in classroom management, and in culturally diverse schools there is always a challenge to make sure instruction and programming really reach all the students they are intended to help. PAX has been effective in many cultural settings and with children of many ethnicities, because it is designed with the flexibility to fit the unique histories and cultures of each school, community, and student population.

PAX provides positive behavioral supports in the classroom. The better the supports are, the fewer the referrals and problematic behaviors that will need to be dealt with by other programs like Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), or by school-based, disciplinary or special ed intervention teams.