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RTI for Behavior: Team-Based Quality Audit and Next-Steps Planning


Here are online resources for Jim Wright's workshop, RTI for Behavior: Team-Based Quality Audit and Next-Steps Planning"
- PowerPoint: What is MTSS for Behavior/SEL?: Reviewing Tiers 1, 2, & 3 (2 Aug 2023)
- Handout (2 Aug 2023)
- Handout 1: Resources
- Handout 2: RTI/MTSS for Behavior: District-Wide Planning Tool
- Handout 3: Beliefs About Behavior Survey-4th Edition (D. Browning Wright)
- Critters!: Rewarding Positive Behaviors. This intervention rewards students for positive behaviors. It can be used with small groups or your entire class. Critters provides children with prize slips that they can redeem with the instructor for classroom privileges. This strategy uses the element of surprise and imaginatively designed reward slips as additional student motivators. Critter Sheet 1Critter Sheet 2
RTI: Behavior: Introduction
- NYS RTI Technical Assistance Center. This site provides resources and guidance for NYS schools on implementation of RTI.
Tier 1: Strong Core Instruction. Teaching of school-wide behaviors and effective group instruction is a powerful means to promote positive classroom behavior.
- RTI/MTSS for Behavior at Tier 1: Establishing a Shared Building-WideFramework for Positive Behavior in 5 Steps. This guide provides a step-by-step blueprint to develop, teach, and reinforce school-wide behavioral expectations for your students.
- How to Implement Strong Core Instruction: Direct Instruction Checklist (Interactive Form). This handout gives teachers a checklist that they can use to evaluate their whole-group instruction to ensure that it it 'optimized' to reach the struggling learner. Use this tool to verify that classroom instruction is adequate and motivating. (Direct Instruction Checklist (Interactive Form)
- Numbered Heads Together: Cooperative Learning Activity
Tier 1:Class-Wide Management
Group Behavior Management Ideas:
- Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word.
- Good Behavior Game
- Teacher-Student Learning Game
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom
Free online app discussed:
- Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker. Use this app to develop checklists that students can use to guide their learning and take responsibility for their behaviors.
Tier 1: Classroom Behavioral Intervention
- How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet (Google Docs)
- Managing Academic Anxiety Through an Antecedent Writing Activity
- Reducing Disruptive Behavior Through Antecedent Physical Exercise
- How to Reduce TIme-Outs With Active Response Beads
These data-collection methods for behavior were discussed:
- Behavior Report Card Maker. This app allows teachers to create and print off customized Behavior Report Cards (BRCs) to easily collect classroom behavioral data.
- Behavior Log/Scatterplot. This handout includes a sample incident-report form and scatterplot to analyze patterns of problem behavior.
Tier 2: Supplemental Interventions
Here are websites that present information about RTI-B Tier 2/3 programs:
- What Works Clearinghouse
- National Center on Intensive Intervention: Behavior Intervention Tools Chart
TIer 2: Range of Programs/Services
- Behavior Education Program/Check In-Check Out
-Responding to Problem Behaviors in Schools: The Behavior Education Program is an excellent manual written by the BEP/CICO program creators and available through booksellers (ISBN-13: 978-1606236000).
- Mentoring
-The National Mentoring Resource Center: https://nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org/index.php. This website, sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), contains links to resources for setting up peer and adult mentoring programs.-Read an impact study of student mentoring: Impact Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Mentoring Program: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20094047/pdf/20094047.pdf
- Solution-Focused Brief Counseling
-An article (Jones et al., 2009) that provides a helpful introduction to SFBC can be found at: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ878370.pdf
- Social Skills Training
This Student Engagement Project article gives an overview of social-skills training programs and describes several programs schools can check out.
-https://k12engagement.unl.edu/strategy-briefs/Resources%20for%20Social%20Skills%20Curricula%209-22-2014_0.pdf
- Behavior Contracts
-Check out this article from the Student Engagement Project on Behavior Contracting:
Tier 3: Intensive Interventions
- Tier 3: RTI Team Roles
- Tier 3: RTI Team Case Manager Pre-Meeting Form
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting introductory Script
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting 'Facilitator's Guide'
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting Forms: Interactive.
- Tier 3: RTI Team 'Quality Indicators' Checklist
- Funcion-Based Thinking (FBT): Behavior Analysis: Step-by-Step Guide
- FBT: Behavior Analysis Form (Interactive)
- FBT: Behavior Intervention Planning Form (Interactive)
School-Wide Behavior Screening Tools
- Website: National Center on Intensive Intervention: Behavior Progress-Monitoring Tools Chart
- Building an RTI-B Schoolwide Screening Process Through Archival Data & Multi-Gating Procedures