B.I.S.T., (Behavioral Intervention Support Team, BIST), is a behavioral modification system developed by Ozanam. Ozanam is a large, residential education institution in the Kansas City area and is marketing BIST to school districts in at least 5 states throughout the Midwest to the tune of millions of dollars.

It was originally designed for use with troubled teens in a reform school environment. It is also related to, and perhaps developed from, PBS programs which were designed for use with at-risk/special-needs students. According to Ozanam, "The Behavior Intervention Support Team (BIST) grew out of a desire to keep at-risk students in a community school."

The BIST program has been adopted by hundreds of schools throughout the Midwest. In Missouri, for example, the Missouri State Board of Education sponsors it through continuing education/professional development training and seminars <ref> Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Division of School Improvement - Curriculum Services</ref> and tax dollars are spent adopting the program in schools state wide. The BIST program affects thousands of children and parents throughout the region.

Some <ref> Rethink Our Schools</ref> have raised legitimate questions as to the appropriateness of applying such techniques generally to classroom management and discipline in regular schools with normal, un-troubled, not-at-risk children.

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