School has been in session for a few weeks and students have begun to learn the expected behaviors. Teaching, modeling, and reinforcing the expected behaviors may be all that is needed for a large percentage of your students. Now it's time to 'catch' the students that may need additional support, before their behavior escalates.
By digging down into data, we can be on the lookout for students with multiple office referrals. But before rushing to get them into interventions, ask some questions. Have these students had access to the lessons on behavior expectations? Have they received any acknowledgments for positive behaviors? Are the referrals coming from multiple locations? Also, it's important to follow up with classroom and specials teachers to see if students have engaged in minor behaviors.
Once you have determined that students need more support, it's important to find the best intervention. Office referral form data can be extremely useful, especially if your form includes all the right information. It's important to know what, when, where, and who else was involved, but a particularly useful data point is motivation. Asking staff to give their best 'guess' as to the student's motivation for engaging in the behavior will help your behavior team choose an intervention with practices that match the student's needs. A useful tool for choosing interventions was created by the Arkansas Behavior Support Specialists: the Student Intervention Matching (SIM) Form.
How does your school currently collect office referral data? Do you have a system that can filter and sort data? There are some great options available. Please feel free to contact our office if you're interested in PBISApps' School-wide Information System (SWIS).
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