Tier 1 Practices

Learn from teachers as they model strategies and explain how procedures work effectively in their classrooms. These are the practices that teachers and educators have been using for decades to create safe and supportive schools. Please share ideas and feedback to help us grow this resource. ✨

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Proactive Mode

Leverage training, coaching, and data to build a strong core of behavior support.

Reactive Mode

There's a version of this resource designed to help you problem solve and intervene.

Teaching Behavior Expectations & Skills

Communicating clear behavior expectations and teaching the skills that students need in order to meet them.

★ = Fundamental strategies / priorities for proficiency

Prevention

Proactively creating conditions that promote positive behavior and minimize the likelihood of undesired behavior.

★ = Fundamental strategies / priorities for proficiency

Reinforcement

When positive behavior happens, responding in a way that makes it more likely the behavior will happen again.

★ = Fundamental strategies / priorities for proficiency

Response

When undesired behavior happens, responding in a way that makes it less likely the behavior will happen again.

★ = Fundamental strategies / priorities for proficiency

Sources and Further Learning

This resource was initially developed in the winter of 2018 as part of a Mental Health Workgroup that included representatives from Chisago Lakes, East Central, Hinckley-Finlayson, North Branch, Pine City, Rush City, and SCRED. It was originally a printed resource called the Classroom Management Guide.

The resource bank moved to this website and took a big step forward through collaboration in 2022 with leadership teams in Hinckley Elementary School and Chisago Lakes Primary School.

The listed practices were identified primarily by cross-referencing implementation checklists from national organizations in the areas of SEL, PBIS, Trauma-Informed Practices, and Restorative Practices: