Highfield Hauora looks at the wellbeing and learning from a whole school as well as an individual child perspective. The framework is based on PB4L, and the work of Ross Greene, and the Reboot program.  The PB4L framework is helping New Zealand schools build a culture where positive behaviour and learning is a way of life. The framework can be tailored to a school’s own environment and cultural needs.

Highfield Hauora is centered around not changing the students; but about about changing the environment, systems and practices you have in place to support them to make positive behaviour choices.

PB4L is based on the Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework developed at the University of Oregon in the 1990s. PBIS is now in thousands of schools across the United States and there are over 1050 PB4L schools in New Zealand.