Daily Report Cards with Reinforcement for Increasing Behavioral Success

TIER II http://hamburgschools.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=9708

Tier Two Basics—these interventions are implemented based on a systematic procedure that identifies students who are non-responsive to tier one.

 Performance-Based Feedback

 Daily report cards with reinforcement for increasing behavioral success

 Mentoring programs (one on one regularly occurring sessions with an identified staff person who be friends and supports)

 Check-in-check-out systems (Student meets with a staff person to review target behavior and receive encouragement and self-monitoring data sheet in a.m., and reviews results in p.m.

 Self-monitoring systems (Student records success/failure in specific time intervals in classes.

 Behavior contracting (Student, staff, family agree on specific outcomes for specific behaviors.)

 Social skills instruction or school counseling (Student participates in on-going school sessions.).

Tier 2: Targeted Interventions

How is Tier 2 implemented?

The following steps illustrate the general process of

Tier 2 implementation

Step 1: Create process for identifying students in need of tier 2 supports. Step 2: Create several interventions that address various needs of students. Step 3: Allocate resources to implement the interventions. Step 4: Sort students into the tier 2 interventions. Step 5: Collect data on progress of students receiving interventions. Step 6: Evaluate success and modify program

What is a Tier 2 intervention? Tier 2 interventions provide additional support for those students who do not sufficiently respond to Tier 1 strategies implemented in School-wide systems of Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS). What are the critical features of Tier 2 Interventions?

 Continuously available to student

 Rapid access to intervention  Very low effort by teachers with maximum benefits for students

 Consistent with school-wide expectations

 Implemented uniformly by all staff/faculty

 Flexible based on student needs and function of behavior

 Student chooses to participate

 Continuous progress monitoring linked to systemic decision making process

 Intervention “packages” matched to student need

What are the benefits of Tier 2 Interventions?

 Improved structure

 Student is “set up” for success

 Increase in contingent feedback

 Applied across school settings

 Increased reward for appropriate behavior

 Evolve to self-management

 Supportive response to teacher

What does a Tier 2 System of Support look like? Tier 2 interventions are most efficiently implemented in the same way the PBS Leadership Team has implemented School-wide Systems of PBS; an integration ofdata, systems and practices.

Data ODR Suspension/Detention Minors Intervention data

Systems Structured Team meeting Bi-monthly meetings Nomination process Progress monitoring

Practices Classroom Management Checkin/Check out Check & Connect Social Skill Training (Social Stories) Organizational Skills Homework Club Newcomers Club

Resources Sprick, R., Howard, L., Wise, B.J., & Marcum, K. (1998). Administrator’s desk reference of behavior management. Eugene, OR: Pacific Northwest Publishing. www.safeandcivilschools.com/books.php

Fairbanks, S., Simonsen, B., & Sugai, G. (2008). Classwide secondary and tertiary tier practices and systems. Teaching Exceptional Children 40(6), 44-52. Last Modified on April 25, 2013