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Team Composition

79 claims on pp. 20–123 (fact 61, statement 4, evidence 7, conclusion 2, conjecture 3, definition 2).

Claims about Team Composition

Definition [V] p020-08

BTAM approach: a multidisciplinary team systematically evaluates and responds to concerning behavior

The BTAM approach involves a multidisciplinary team—often including school administrators, counselors, and public safety professionals—systematically evaluating and responding to concerning student behaviors or threats.

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Evidence [V] p024-04

Maryland and Texas both require BTAM teams but with different emphases (Texas SSC; MCSS)

Although both Maryland and Texas require schools to have BTAM teams, Texas explicitly requires that members of teams have a range of specific types of expertise “to the greatest extent practicable” (Texas School Safety Center, undated), and Maryland emphasizes coordination with the Maryland Center for School Safety (MCSS), which provides training and other resources to K–12 schools in this area (MCSS, undated).

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Evidence [V] p024-05

Kentucky, Nevada, and Oregon required BTAM by 2019 and stress multidisciplinary teams

Other states that required BTAM in schools as early as 2019, such as Kentucky, Nevada, and Oregon, also specifically stress the importance of multidisciplinary teams in the threat assessment process, with added emphasis on the role of mental health professionals.

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Statement [V] p040-01

This chapter examines BTAM policies, team membership, training, meetings and funding

We examine the policies and procedures schools have in place that are specific to BTAM, the membership structure of school BTAM teams, the training that team members receive, how often these teams meet, and how they are funded.

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Evidence [V] p041-13

Most named BTAM frameworks and some state laws specify minimum team sizes and required disciplines

Most named BTAM frameworks and even some laws or regulations in states requiring or supporting BTAM implementation specify minimum team sizes and specific disciplines that must or should be represented (see, e.g., NTAC, 2018; National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, undated).

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Evidence [V] p041-14

Models most commonly recommend administration, mental health services and public safety members

Most commonly, BTAM models or implementation guidance recommend including individuals from school administration (e.g., a principal or assistant principal), mental health services (e.g., a counselor or school psychologist), and public safety (e.g., a school resource officer [SRO] or another individual with security expertise).

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Evidence [V] p041-15

A wide variety of other specialists and community members often flagged as additional potential team

That said, a wide variety of other specialists and individuals with community or other knowledge are often flagged as additional potential team members (e.g., instructional staff, special education professionals, among others).

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Fact [V] p041-16

Number and types of specialists can drive BTAM team performance, so composition was a focus of the s

Because the number and types of specialists that are part of the team can drive the performance of BTAM teams, team composition and roles that different individuals play on the team were significant focuses of the survey.

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Fact [I] p041-18

Figure 5.1: principals name varied school, district and outside individuals as team members

As shown in Figure 5.1, principals indicated that a variety of school- or district-based individuals (and outside individuals) from administrators to mental health providers are part of these

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Why inferred The sentence crosses a page break: this quote is the page 41 part and the sentence continues on page 42. Full sentence (pages 41–42): “As shown in Figure 5.1, principals indicated that a variety of school- or district-based individuals (and outside individuals) from administrators to mental health providers are part of these teams.”

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Conclusion [V] p043-02

Authors say 6 percent figure indicates those schools made extra effort to draw personnel from outsid

this indicates that these schools made the extra effort to ensure that these disciplines were represented on the team, even though it required them to draw personnel from outside their current staffing.

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Conjecture [V] p043-03

Same pattern for all health professional positions suggests school staffing shapes team inclusion

We saw this same pattern with all the health professional positions we asked about, suggesting that schools’ access to school-based mental and physical health staff usually shapes whether their BTAM team includes such personnel.

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Conclusion [V] p043-04

Schools have differential access to school-based personnel; outside access can be challenging

This is noteworthy because schools have differential access to various types of school-based personnel, and accessing those disciplines from outside the school can be challenging, especially when it comes to individuals with specialized expertise.

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Fact [V] p043-05

Team personnel was highly related to school context

Which specific personnel were included on schools’ BTAM teams was also highly related to the school context (although this is intertwined with which types of schools tend to have which staff, as discussed in the “Differential Access to School Personnel Likely Shapes the Composition of BTAM Teams” box).

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Fact [V] p043-06

Secondary schools more likely than elementary to have more varied personnel on BTAM teams

For example, secondary (middle and high) schools were more likely to have a greater variety of personnel on their teams—including other school administrators beyond the principal, school-based law enforcement, counselors, and social workers—than their elementary counterparts.

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Conjecture [V] p043-09

Authors infer larger districts might have greater capacity for specialized roles or delegation

We infer from these patterns that larger districts might have greater capacity for specialized roles or delegation of specific individuals to be involved in BTAM, given they tend to employ more school- and district-level administrators.

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Fact [V] p043-16

Analysis examined likelihood of personnel types on BTAM teams given team size

To understand how BTAM team membership changes as these teams increase in size (i.e., which types of personnel are added as teams grow), we investigated the likelihood of various types of personnel being on a BTAM teams given team size.

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Fact [V] p044-03

Staff at school full/part time: counselor 89 percent, nurse 89 percent, psychologist 67 percent, swo

Sample (N = 1746) · All principals, staff available at school question

Unsurprisingly, we found that some types of staff were much more common than others, with principals reporting as follows: school counselor (89 percent), school nurse (89 percent), school psychologist (67 percent), sworn law enforcement officer (58 percent), social worker (56 percent), and security guard (22 percent).

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Fact [V] p044-20

Principals confirmed which specialized staff are present at school full or part time (Table 5.1)

We confirmed with principals what types of specialized staff—counselors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, sworn law enforcement officers, and security guards—are present at their schools either full time or part time (see Table 5.1).

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Fact [V] p121-03

Table A.21 Other school administrators besides you: 66.7 (official + other teams); 68.7 (official...

Sample (N = 1646 | 1408 by column) · Table A.21 columns: Official BTAM teams and other school-based teams | Official BTAM teams only

Other school administrators besides you (for example, assistant principal, other senior administrator) | 66.7 | 68.7

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Fact [V] p121-05

Table A.21 Non-school-based law enforcement: 12.5 (official + other teams); 13.3 (official only)

Sample (N = 1646 | 1408 by column) · Table A.21 columns: Official BTAM teams and other school-based teams | Official BTAM teams only

Non-school-based law enforcement (for example, police officer from local department who is not regularly in the school) | 12.5 | 13.3

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Fact [V] p123-16

Table A.27 Reduced recommended personnel (resource/staff constraints): 39.5 (official + other tea...

Sample (N = 162 | 153 by column) · Table A.27 columns: Official BTAM teams and other school-based teams | Official BTAM teams only (N row printed on p124, continuation page)

We reduced the number of recommended personnel serving on the team due to resource or staff constraints | 39.5 | 40.4

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Fact [V] p123-17

Table A.27 Reduced recommended personnel (community concerns/context): 6.5 (official + other team...

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We reduced the number of recommended personnel serving on the team due to community concerns or context | 6.5 | 5.3

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Fact [V] p123-18

Table A.27 Added personnel beyond recommended: 29.2 (official + other teams); 29.6 (official only)

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We added personnel to our team beyond the recommended personnel | 29.2 | 29.6

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