Coaching Pilot Plan for Secondary Tier Intervention

Action Steps / Person Responsible / Target Completion Date
Select a student for the pilot
Provide the PBSIS Coach with a list of all the teachers/staff that work with the student and their email addresses
Send the F-BIT to all of the students’ teaches with instructions to complete
Collect the F-BIT from the teachers and send to the PBSIS contact
Summarize the F-BIT and put into the excel template
Have a summary of the office conduct referral history
Obtain records information
  • Number of visits to nurse/school counselor and dates
  • Prior intervention data from teachers
  • Grades
  • Attendance

Interview the parent using the F-BIT Interview protocol
Interview the student using the F-BIT Student Interview Protocol (or Social Support Survey)
Coordinate the Initial Meeting
  • Send out the invitation / meeting information
  • Work with administrators and teachers to ensure coverage
  • Arrange meeting space

Organize Information for the Initial meeting
  • Review interview and F-BIT information
  • Summarize information collected into a preliminary behavior map
  • Bring copies for team members to review

Action Steps / Person Responsible / Target Completion Date
Hold the Consensus Planning Meeting
  • Facilitate agreement on a definition of the target behavior and student strengths
  • Provide a summary of the preliminary behavior map
  • Map out an illustrative example using recent occurrence of behavior
  • Display the ‘behavior map’ using flip chart
  • Develop a plan to collect a baseline of the target behavior

Document a baseline
  • Develop a schedule with the teachers for documenting a baseline over a two week period
  • Summarize the baseline information

Plan for the Intervention Meeting
  • Finalize the behavior summary map
  • Develop a ‘function of behavior’ statement
  • Select of pool of intervention strategies to propose to teachers that address the key features of the student’s behavior map

Coordinate the Intervention Meeting
  • Send out the invitation / meeting information
  • Work with administrators and teachers to ensure coverage
  • Arrange meeting space

Meeting preparation
  • Develop the behavior summary map and a proposed function statement to bring to the planning meeting
  • Prepare a list of proposed strategies / interventions to present at the planning meeting

Intervention implementation
  • Write up the behavior intervention action plan
  • Implement strategies during school routines

Progress monitoring
  • Collect progress monitoring data
  • Review progress monitoring data
  • Follow up on implementation fidelity with all teachers

NJ PBSIS (2015). NJPBSIS is sponsored by New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs in collaboration with The Boggs Center, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. PBSIS is funded by I.D.E.A., Part B.