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For more information on the various supports across the tiers, see the Center on PBIS’s Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3, topic pages.

For more guidance on intensive and individualized supports, see the Tier 3 Student-level Systems Guide, Tier 3 School-level Systems Guide, and Tier 3 District-level Systems Guide.

For strategies and guidance on creating and enhancing a central reporting system, see Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency & U.S. Secret Service, 2023).

A BTAM team is developing an individualized management and support plan for a student who poses a risk of harm to themselves or others. As part of the planning process, the team reviews an inventory of existing school-based resources that can be leveraged across tiers (e.g., counselor-led groups, targeted interventions, functional behavioral assessment and planning, scheduling changes).

By working to link the management and support plan to current Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 supports based upon the student’s behaviors, needs, strengths, and stressors, the BTAM team enhances efficiency in its development of an individualized plan.

As well, because the MTSS/PBIS teams have worked to document evidence of effectiveness for all interventions and supports, the BTAM team is better positioned to select effective practices as it tailors the plan to the student.

A district is implementing the targeted intervention Check-In/Check-Out (CICO) as part of its Tier 2 supports. The district’s coordinator for MTSS/PBIS partners with the district’s director of district safety and security to have all of the school safety specialists on staff across the district trained in de-escalation techniques and as CICO implementers.

In this capacity, they check in with students with targeted needs at the start of the day to provide encouragement before class and again at the end of the day to provide a positive touchpoint before the student leaves.

Through this process of regular feedback, the school safety specialists build rapport and relationships with students which helps increase engagement, decrease isolation, and promote a system for the student to proactively seek support from an adult.