This study set out to investigate the current state of school violence and the
problems with the current measures to deal with it, propose that school-wide positive
behavioral support should be a solution for school violence, and search for ways to
apply such supports to the field of education across the nation. In spite of the
increasing frequency and intensity of school violence, they mainly utilize post-event
punishment plans such as the traditional discipline approach in schools. School
discipline, however, should take a positive, preventive, and educational approach rather
than searching for measures to deal with a violence event after it has taken place. It
it thus required to establish school-wide positive behavioral support in the field of
education as they are a preventive model to combine preventive efforts for all students
with intensive behavioral supports for individual students showing seriously
problematic behavior. School-wide positive behavioral support should thus collect and
analyze data based on cooperation among the team members including the concerned
parties and be implemented for a long term through combination with academic
interventions already in practice.