Steve Bissonnette

Steve Bissonnette is a tenured professor in the education department at TÉLUQ University in Quebec, Canada and prior to this was a professor and assistant director in the Department of Psychoeducation at the Université du Québec in Outaouais (UQO) at the Saint-Jérôme campus. His area of specialization is intervention in schools.

For more than 25 years, he worked with students in difficulty and school staff in primary and secondary schools as well as in youth centers. He is interested in work on the effectiveness of teaching and schools, explicit instruction, effective behavior management as well as evidence-based educational approaches promoting the success of students who are struggling.

Professor Bissonnette is the first Canadian researcher whose work focuses specifically on the implementation of the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) model in French-speaking schools which has been underway for 15 years in school service centers in Quebec. In addition, Professor Bissonnette collaborated with the University of Liège and the University of Mons in the implementation of the PBIS model in Belgian schools.

It should be noted that the PBIS model established at the Laurentides school board, with Professor Bissonnette, won the Ministry of Families prize “Together against bullying, school category” in 2019. Professor Bissonette has participated in the writing of more than a hundred publications on the theme of teaching effectiveness in schools, including his latest work Enseignement explicite et données probantes : 40 stratégies pédagogiques efficace pour la classe et l'école (2023) which is the benchmark used for school reform in Morocco (2022-2026).