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Contact the LEA Behavior Specialist

When a special education student is restrained, the LEA must:

(A) provide written notification to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student for each use of restraint that includes: (using the IEP system)

• the name of the student;

• the name of the district employee or volunteer or independent contractor of the district who administered the restraint;

• the date of the restraint;

• the time that the restraint started and ended;

• the location of the restraint;

• the nature of the restraint;

• a description of the activity in which the student was engaged immediately preceding the use of the restraint;

• the behavior of the student that prompted the restraint;

• any efforts made to de-escalate the situation and any alternatives to restraint that were attempted;

• if the student has a behavior improvement plan or a behavioral intervention plan, whether the plan may need to be revised as a result of the behavior that led to the restraint; and

• if the student does not have a behavior improvement plan or a behavioral intervention plan, information on the procedure for the student’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student to request an admission, review, and dismissal committee meeting to discuss the possibility of conducting a functional behavioral assessment of the student and developing a plan for the student;

(B) include in a student ’s special education eligibility school records:

• a copy of the written notification provided to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student under Paragraph (A);

• information on the method by which the written notification was sent to the parent or person; and

• the contact information for the parent or person to whom the district sent the notification; and

(C) if the student has a behavior improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan, document each use of time-out prompted by a behavior of the student specified in the student ’s plan, including a description of the behavior that prompted the time-out.

Inform the Assistant Superintendent

Restraint for a general education student:

While the education code protocols for restraints used with a general education student differ from that of a special education student, FISD policy requires:

• The restraint to be documented in the students intervention plan in Branching Minds

•  Written notification provided to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student for each use of restraint that includes (using the template provided)

• A copy of the written notification provided to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student included in the student's Branching Minds records

• Send a copy of the parent letter to the LEA Behavior Specialist, pmorton@ferrisisd.org

• The restraint to be documented in Skyward if the restraint was performed by the LEA Police Department Officer/SRO

Contact the LEA Behavior Specialist

• LEA Behavior Specialist will support behavior teacher with adding the event to Frontline

Inform the Assistant Superintendent

Restraints

HB 785 = TEC 37.004

Restraint for a student receiving special education

Contact the LEA Behavior Specialist

When a special education student is restrained, the LEA must:

(A) provide written notification to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student for each use of restraint that includes: (using the IEP system)

• the name of the student;

• the name of the district employee or volunteer or independent contractor of the district who administered the restraint;

• the date of the restraint;

• the time that the restraint started and ended;

• the location of the restraint;

• the nature of the restraint;

• a description of the activity in which the student was engaged immediately preceding the use of the restraint;

• the behavior of the student that prompted the restraint;

• any efforts made to de-escalate the situation and any alternatives to restraint that were attempted;

• if the student has a behavior improvement plan or a behavioral intervention plan, whether the plan may need to be revised as a result of the behavior that led to the restraint; and

• if the student does not have a behavior improvement plan or a behavioral intervention plan, information on the procedure for the student’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student to request an admission, review, and dismissal committee meeting to discuss the possibility of conducting a functional behavioral assessment of the student and developing a plan for the student;

(B) include in a student ’s special education eligibility school records:

• a copy of the written notification provided to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student under Paragraph (A);

• information on the method by which the written notification was sent to the parent or person; and

• the contact information for the parent or person to whom the district sent the notification; and

(C) if the student has a behavior improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan, document each use of time-out prompted by a behavior of the student specified in the student ’s plan, including a description of the behavior that prompted the time-out.

Inform the Assistant Superintendent

Restraint for a general education student:

While the education code protocols for restraints used with a general education student differ from that of a special education student, FISD policy requires:

• The restraint to be documented in the students intervention plan in Branching Minds

•  Written notification provided to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student for each use of restraint that includes (using the template provided)

• A copy of the written notification provided to the student ’s parent or person standing in parental relation to the student included in the student's Branching Minds records

• Send a copy of the parent letter to the LEA Behavior Specialist, pmorton@ferrisisd.org

• The restraint to be documented in Skyward if the restraint was performed by the LEA Police Department Officer/SRO

Contact the LEA Behavior Specialist

Inform the Assistant Superintendent

change of placement

Change of Placement

When any student receiving special education services (regardless of the disability) is subject to a change of placement, the ARDC must:

(A) seek consent to conduct a functional behavioral assessment of the student, if a functional behavioral assessment has never been conducted or the student ’s most recent functional behavioral assessment is more than one year old;

and

(B) review any previously conducted functional behavioral assessment of the student and any behavior improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan developed for the student based on that assessment; and

(2) as necessary:

(A) develop a behavior improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan for the student if the student does not have a plan; or

(B) if the student has a behavior improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan, revise the student ’s plan. 

Special circumstances

34 CFR 300.530(g)

School personnel may remove a student to an interim alternative educational setting for not more than 45 school days without regard to whether the behavior is determined to be a manifestation of the child's disability, if the child: 

1. Carries a weapon to or possesses a weapon at school, on school premises, or to or at a school function under the jurisdiction of an SEA or an LEA;

2. Knowingly possesses or uses illegal drugs, or sells or solicits the sale of a controlled substance, while at school, on school premises, or at a school function under the jurisdiction of an SEA or an LEA; or

3. Has inflicted serious bodily injury upon another person while at school, on school premises, or at a school function under the jurisdiction of an SEA or an LEA.

Checklist for behavior support plans

Use this checklist to review any behavior improvement plans.

Discipline Flowchart for Students Identified With or Suspected to have a Disability Under IDEA