Intervention/Crisis Prevention Strategies

1. Tucker, G.C (2018). Behavior Intervention plans: What you need to know. Understood: For Learning and Attention Issues. Retrieved from https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/educational-strategies/behavior-intervention-plans-what-you-need-to-know. This webpage offers guidance in developing behavior plans that help prevent the initial cause of the disruptive behavior. Furthermore, the plans include results of a functional behavior assessment taken from the student. Additionally, this webpage gives crucial information on monitoring a student's behavioral intervention and making necessary changes. Finally, it includes information about discerning triggers unrelated to a child's learning and attention issues.
2. Boardman, R. & Vittone, T. (2016, May). School safety: Strategies for educators. Crisis Prevention Institute. Retrieved from https://www.crisisprevention.com/Blog/May-2016/School-Safety-Strategies-for-Educators. This webpage offers many practical strategies to incorporate adequate school safety. Many of these suggestions are of low, or no cost, to schools and are backed by research. Also, it offers strategies for deescalating conflicts and implementing a variety of protective actions. Finally, the webpage emphasizes the importance of good emergency communication and how to implement theses procedures.
3. Behavioral intervention plans: What is a behavioral intervention plan (BIP) ?. Positive Environment: Network of Teachers (PENT): California Department of Education Diagnostic Center, Southern California. Retrieved from http://www.pent.ca.gov/beh/bip/bip.htm. This resource, based in my geographical location, offers guidance on proactive action plans to reduce behavior that impedes learning of the student and others. This resource is strictly for students in Tier III of the BIP, as it assumes that tiers I and II have not worked. Finally, it offers an abundance of other resources in its site relating to behavioral intervention plans.
4. Behavioral intervention team: About us. California State University, Fullerton. Retrieved from http://www.fullerton.edu/deanofstudents/behavioral_intervention_team/. This nearby resource offers a centralized behavioral intervention team to respond to non-emergency concerns. It is also used as a proactive approach to discuss potential problems, intervene early, and support students who are in distress. While this university does not say if they directly collaborate with local schools, they will still be an important outside agency to collaborate with on an as needed basis.
5. Teacher behavioral strategies: A Menu. Intervention Central. Retrieved from https://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/challenging-students/teacher-behavioral-strategies-menu. This resources gives significant information prior to the problem behaviors occurring, and also strategies to use after they have taken place. This could include breaking work into chunks to prevent them from using avoidance behaviors. Also, it offers tips for dealing with behaviors as they happen. This is definitely a resource I will save and use in the future.