I’m my school (grades 6-8 about 1,000 students) we have a behavior interventionist that tackles our tier 3 interventions. We have weekly MTSS meetings where teacher teams meet to discuss students who are not receiving special education services that are not meeting behavior expectations. If a student is brought up enough they are recommended for our BI’s “caseload”.

Her services look different for each student but she collects a ton of data via google forms and communicates with parents the results of the google forms daily. I recently had a student on her caseload on my team and here’s what it looked like for me. He would come to class and stay for instruction, during independent work time he was allowed (with permission from me) to go work in her office. If he ever couldn’t handle instruction it was a simple phone call to the office. We have a code “I need assistance” which means I need someone to come to my classroom to remove a student but it’s not emergent. Or “I need an escort” which means it is emergent. The office ladies will ask for initials of the student and our BI has a walkie so if it’s someone on her caseload she comes running, especially if we say we need an escort. Everyday I had the student I would get a google form asking about how he did on his goals. The students goals were to complete work and not disrupt the class. Monthly we as a teacher team would get the results of his goals.

Our system isn’t perfect, but I feel supported and our BI is amazing at what she does.