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School Level Tier 2 Implementers

IL Networking Opportunities

Teaming & Identifying Students for Tier 2 Supports

January 27, 2025�

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As you join, please take a few minutes to respond to the Google Form prompts regarding your current status of Tier 2 Teaming and Screening.

https://forms.gle/F4RZtoXEpUWm5LRW9

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UPDATED 10/18/24

www.midwestpbis.org

@midwestpbis

In partnership with

All youth achieve

social - emotional - behavioral

and academic success.

Our Vision

Collaborate with adults to create a safe, equitable, consistent, and positive learning environment for all youth.

Our Mission

The Midwest PBIS Network (MWPBIS) is a national research, grant, and direct-funded, nonprofit organization located in Illinois and works in partnership with Lake County Regional Office of Education. 

Our primary charge is to function as a hub of the Center on PBIS, a national technical assistance partnership funded from the U.S. Department of Education.

ABOUT MIDWEST PBIS NETWORK

The Center's model of capacity building emphasizes a cascade of implementation to assist state departments of education in the installation, fidelity, outcomes, and sustainability of PBIS. We encourage you to also access local technical assistance from your state and region

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Purpose�What are Illinois Implementers Networking Opportunities?

  • Provide space for sharing successes and developing solutions with other district and regional leaders

  • Targeted to implementers in Illinois and open to all!

  • Join every meeting or when available!

  • This year proposing some topic based content along with open networking.
    • January 27 – Teaming & Identifying Students for Tier 2
    • February 24– Critical Features of Tier 2 Interventions
    • March 24 – Matching Students to Tier 2 Interventions
    • April 28 – Progress Monitoring Tier 2 Interventions
    • May 19 – Annual Evaluation & Fidelity

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Tell us about you!!

Please share:

    • Your name
    • School
    • Your role
    • Share any specific question/topic you might want to hear from others on today.

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What do you need today?

Share in chat or with your voice.

    • Specific question you might have.
    • Topic you would like dialogue with group around.

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Materials for Today!

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www.midwestpbis.org

- Coaches

- IL Networking Opportunities

Posted under the date

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Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI)

Purpose: Provide a valid, reliable, and efficient measure to the extent to which school personnel are applying the core features of SW-PBIS.

  • Measure across all three tiers of support.
  • Walkthrough tool for tier 1 included.

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The Poll Says…..

  • Let’s check the data from Tier 2 Fidelity Prompts.

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Let’s hear from you….

What Tier 2 interventions do you have in place in your school?

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Critical Features of Tier 2 Interventions

Tier 2 Behavioral Interventions provide:

  1. Additional instruction/time for student skill development,
  2. Additional structure/predictability, and/or
  3. Increased opportunity for feedback (e.g., daily progress report)
  4. increased communication with families
  5. include planned modifications to address a range of behavioral function, mental health needs, or academic skills

Let’s chat….

  • How do your Tier 2 interventions provide these critical features?
  • What critical features might need more consideration?

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Targeted Intervention Guide Map

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Function

Systems

Page 30 of the TFI

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General Education & Special Education

Tier 1/Universal for Social/Emotional/BehavioralSchool-Wide Assessment / School-Wide Prevention Systems

Check-In, Check-Out �(provides explicit instruction, feedback, structure, reinforcing of tier 1 core)

Modified CICO

SEB Skills Group

Other

Complex SEB Group

Individualized Team Development:�FBA-BIP�Person-Centered Planning

Use Function- Based Thinking to Make Next Choice

&/or

&/or

Overview: Tier II Systems

Individualized Mental Health Intervention

v1.23.23

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Check-in/Check-out

Students check-in with designated CICO Facilitator(s) before the beginning and at the end of each school day to receive positive contact, pre-corrects, reminders of school-wide expectations and, if needed, basic school supplies.  At the end of each class period or designated times, classroom teachers provide youth positive behavior-specific praise and/or specific error correction, based on the school-wide expectations. Data is recorded on the Daily Progress Report Card (DPR).

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(Modified from Hawken, 2015)

Student Recommended for CICO

CICO Student, Family, and Staff Orientation Process Occurs

Caregiver

Connection & Encouragement

Regular Teacher(s)

Connection & Instruction

Afternoon

Check-out

Morning Check-In/

DPR Pick-up

CICO Coordinator

monitors individual student progress and applies data decision rules at least weekly

Exit / Graduate

Add Support

CICO Implementation Process

Continue

CICO

Overview: Tier II Systems

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Modified CICO

Modified CICO has most of the same features as the generic CICO but includes some fairly simple modifications (i.e., change in location of CICO, addition of more Check-ins, check-in/out with a peer, etc.) based upon hypothesized function. Modified CICO does not create individual student goals or goal lines (which would generally come after an FBA-BIP).  

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When Choosing How to Modify, Consider Function�Examples

Function

Check in with a Peer

Goal to Earn Desired Motivator

Check in Extra Times During the Day

Specific Check In Person

Lengthen the Check In Time

Access to Adult Attention

Access to Peer Attention

Access to Tangible

Avoiding Peer Attention

Avoiding adult Attention

Work Avoidance

TFI 2.5 Activity 1

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Social-Emotional-Behavioral (SEB) Skills Group: Students are supported in a small group for direct instruction of school-wide expectations that includes additional opportunity for structured practice and direct behavior specific feedback. Since SEB Skills Groups are ideally re-teaching of skills taught to all students at tier 1, it is recommended that these groups are open-ended for student enrollment at any time. This ensures earlier access to needed support for students. The re-teaching of tier 1 skills allows this type of group to be facilitated by varying staff roles (e.g., teacher, paraprofessional). Intervention leads to generalization most effectively when students are also supported by CICO, where classroom teachers provide students positive behavior feedback on a DPR related to their transference of newly learned skills taught during group.

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  • Structure
  • Skills taught
  • Staff certification

SEB Skills Group

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  • Structure
  • Skills taught
  • Staff certification

Similar to a SEB Skills Group, students are supported in a small group for direct instruction of SEB skills identified for a specific area of need (e.g., anxiety, depression, anger) recommended to be from an evidence-based curriculum. Complex SEB groups are generally more therapeutic (i.e., depend on trust within the group, skills build upon one-another); therefore, it is recommended that these a) be facilitated by credentials indicated in the curriculum and b) be closed-ended groups that students can only be enrolled during week 1 of the group. Generalization of skills learned during an intervention is most effective when youth are supported by CICO and receive positive behavior feedback from their classroom teachers on DPR. It is important that teachers are familiar with the skills being taught and can recognize when students are successfully transferring these skills to their daily lives.

Complex SEB Skills Group

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Daily Progress Report (DPR) Sample�

NAME:______________________ DATE:__________________

EXPECTATIONS

1st block

2nd block

3rd block

4th block

5th block

6th block

7th block

Be Safe

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

Be Respectful

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

Be Responsible

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2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

Total Points

Teacher Initials

Mark will keep hands to self

Mark will hold up a yellow card to indicate needing a break

Mark will fill out assignment notebook

“Individualized Student Card for Mark” �(FBA/BIP)

Replacement behavior

Possible behaviors taught in previous SAIG groups

“Social Academic Instructional Groups”

Walk to class�Keep hands to self�

Use appropriate language�Raise hand to speak

Bring materials �Fill out assignment notebook

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Wrapping-Up

Big Ideas:

  • All Tier 2 interventions should provide critical features.

  • Adaptations may need to be made for implementation across settings, but critical features still apply.

Resources:

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Share in chat. What is your big take-away? What action step will you take in the next week?

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Let Us Know Your Thoughts

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Upcoming Dates �District / Regional Networking

  • May 5, 2025 – Evaluation

Mark your calendars! Registration coming soon!

https://www.midwestpbis2.org/events

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Building Level Implementers Networking

Tier 1 Strand

  • January 13, 2025 - Teaming & Data Based Decision Making at Tier 1
  • February 10, 2025 - Defining & Teaching school-wide Behavior Expectations 
  • March 10, 2025 - Staff/Student/Family Engagement & Monitoring Fidelity
  • April 7, 2025 - Defining Feedback & Acknowledgement Systems
  • May 5, 2025 - Professional Development & Annual Evaluation

Tier 2

  • January 27, 2025 - Teaming & Identifying Students for Tier 2 Support
  • February 24, 2025 - Critical Features of Tier 2 Interventions
  • March 24, 2025 - Matching Students to Tier 2 Intervention
  • April 28, 2025 - Progress Monitoring Tier 2 Interventions
  • May 19, 2025 - Annual Evaluation & Fidelity

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Mark your calendars! Registration coming soon!

https://www.midwestpbis2.org/events

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Upcoming Training

Tier 1 Team Training

March 4-6, 2025

Register now!

Tier 2 Team Training

April 8-10, 2025

Register now!

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Community of Practice – Equity Series 2025

These Community of Practice sessions will include facilitator-delivered brief content delivery related to systemic change as well as opportunities to contribute, collaborate, and network for all participants. Facilitators are members of the Equity & Belonging Workgroup with the Center on PBIS, and will vary by session and topic. Participants will be encouraged to attend with their cameras on to promote collaboration and relationships. Sessions will not be recorded.

  • February 18 from 3:00-4pm
  • April 17 from 4:00-5:30pm
  • May 13 from 3:00-4:30pm
  • September 16 from 3:00-4:30
  • October 22 (In-person at PBIS Leadership Forum)

**All times in CST

https://www.pbis.org/announcements/community-of-practice-equity-series-2025

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Community of Practice – District Leadership

The Center on PBIS is happy to announce a new Community of Practice series of virtual events focusing on district leadership. These Community of Practice events are a continuation from our October 2024 PBIS District Leadership Institute in Chicago, IL. During the virtual events we will share and learn from expert district and regional leaders who are implementing the PBIS/MTSS framework. The format is 20-25 minutes of content, 40-45 minutes of small group breakout discussions, and the remainder of our time in large group discussion. 

  • February 21, 2025 from noon-1:30pm
  • May 2, 2025 from noon-1:30pm

*All times in EST

https://www.pbis.org/announcements/community-of-practice-district-leadership-series-2024-2025

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USDOE Guidance – Function-Based Support Throughout the Continuum

  1. Function-based support can be infused throughout the continuum to support all students.
  2. FBA-BIPs can range from brief to comprehensive
  3. FBA-BIPs can (and should!) be developed for any student.
  4. For students with disabilities, educators may use FBA to inform instruction or as part of evaluation.
  5. Tiers 1 and 2 provide a strong foundation of function-based support.

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Briefs and Practice Guides

https://www.pbis.org/publications/all-publications

- Most recent automatically at the top

- Or sort by topics and keywords

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Forum Sessions

https://www.pbis.org/conference-and-presentations/pbis-leadership-forum

Missed PBIS Leadership Forum this year. Check out the session content and even some recordings (coming soon!).

Save the date!! October 22-23, 2025 in Chicago

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PBIS Podcasts

Expert Instruction – Hosted by PBISApps

https://www.pbisapps.org/resources/expert-instruction

The Educator Blueprint – Hosted by Missouri PBIS

https://pbismissouri.org/media/educators-blueprint-podcast/

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TFI 2.6 Purpose & Outcomes

Purpose:

Ensure each Tier II Intervention includes the three critical features

Outcomes:

  • 2.6 Tier II Critical Features: Tier II behavior support interventions provide (a) additional instruction/time for student skill development, (b) additional structure/predictability (c) increased opportunity for feedback (e.g., daily progress report).
  • Define CICO through three critical features

TFI 2.6: Tier II Critical Features

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Critical Features of Tier 2 Interventions

Tier 2 Behavioral Interventions provide:

  1. Additional instruction/time for student skill development,
  2. Additional structure/predictability, and/or
  3. Increased opportunity for feedback (e.g., daily progress report)

Think about these critical features as we �talk about Check-In / Check-Out.

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What’s at the Core of CICO?

  • Higher doses of PRAISE (Behavior Specific Praise)
  • Error correction (specific and brief feedback)
  • Higher doses of positive adult attention

It is Tier 1 at a higher dose.

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(Modified from Hawken, 2015)

Student Recommended for CICO

CICO Student, Family, and Staff Orientation Process Occurs

Caregiver

Connection & Encouragement

Regular Teacher(s)

Connection & Instruction

Afternoon

Check-out

Morning Check-In/

DPR Pick-up

CICO Coordinator

monitors individual student progress and applies data decision rules at least weekly

Exit / Graduate

Add Support

CICO Implementation Process

Continue

CICO

Overview: Tier II Systems

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What does CICO look like? Video Examples:

SchoolSocialWork.net �https://youtu.be/vP7GJ72UxsA

    • 1’35” – morning check-in
    • 3’25” – teacher feedback
    • 4’58” – check-out

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Tips for Successful CICO Routine

  • Designate consistent location for check-ins and check-outs
  • Identify staff that can be consistent facilitators
    • Plan for facilitator absences
  • Plan for students with varying schedules (e.g., early dismissal, student is tardy)

This is a school-wide intervention. It may require systems change.

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Where, When, How?

  • Check in and Check out happens at very start of the day before the academic day begins and at very end of the day before school is dismissed�
  • Centralized location: cafeteria, library, gym, etc.
    • Table set up to accommodate 10-15 students per facilitator�
  • Remember your numbers… if you have a school of 300, you can expect roughly 30 students will need this additional, low level support.

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Feedback Needs to Be Specific

  • Whether a student earns a “0, 1 or 2”, he/she needs to know exactly why the points are being given.
    • Even students who receive 2’s need to know what to do again!�
  • Someone should be able to ask a student “why did you get that 1 point today?” and the student will clearly understand why (not that you will necessarily ask ☺)
    • This goes for receiving acknowledgments as well. The interaction about why the points or the tickets are being delivered IS the intervention!

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Behavior Specific Praise

Provide Specific Praise for Behavior:

Step 1: Identify the student or group

Step 2: Include a term of praise

Step 3: Describe/Acknowledge specific behavior/rule being �recognized

Step 4: (best practice): Link to school-wide expectation

Step 5: (optional): Provide tangible reinforcement, DPR points, etc.

Non-examples:

  • “Brian is sitting in his seat.”
  • Saying “good job” without connecting to school-rule.
  • Giving ticket without saying anything
  • Only giving a ticket for “above and beyond” behavior

”Diane, Awesome! You are demonstrating Listening to the speaker, that's being ‘respectful!’”

“This whole table group cleaned up their lab area when the period bell rang. Well done! Way to show ‘responsibility.’”

30 seconds or less!

The Wilson Way

Classroom Rules

Be Responsible

  • Stay on task
  • Clean up area
  • Apologize for mistakes

Be Respectful

  • Raise hand
  • Listen to speaker
  • Follow directions

Be Safe

  • Walk quietly
  • Keep hands and feet to self

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Steps to Specific and Contingent �Error Correction:

1. Respectfully address student

2. Describe inappropriate behavior

3. Describe expected behavior/rule

4. Link to school-wide expectation on Matrix

5. End with encouragement

1 minute or less!

Example: “Joe [privately and with sincere voice tone], I saw that you were talking to your neighbor during independent work time. The expectation during independent time is focus on your own work which is Doing Your Best. Go ahead and start on your work again, and I’ll stop by to catch you doing your best.”

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TFI 2.6 Activity 1: �Aligning CICO to Critical Features

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TFI Self-Assessment

  1. Self-Assess on the TFI
  2. Enter your score on the TFI Tool in the front of the workbook

Features

Possible Sources

Criteria

2.6 Tier II Critical Features:

Tier II behavior support interventions provide (a) additional instruction/time for student skill development, (b) additional structure/predictability, and/or (c) increased opportunity for feedback (e.g., daily progress report).

• Universal lesson plans

• Tier II lesson plans

• Daily/weekly progress report

• School schedule

• School Tier II handbook

0 = Tier II interventions do not promote additional instruction/ time, improved structure, or increased feedback

1 = All Tier II interventions provide some but not all 3 core Tier II features

2 = All Tier II interventions include all 3 core Tier II features

TFI 2.6: Tier II Critical Features

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TFI 2.6 Critical Features

Let’s Connect Teams

Team Time:

  1. Assess TFI Items 2.6
  2. Use workbook TFI 2.6 Activity 1 to discuss:
    1. What each critical feature identified in 2.6 looks like, sounds like in CICO?

OR

b) What each critical feature looks like, sounds like in your current implementation?

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Social-Emotional-Behavioral (SEB) Skills Group: Students are supported in a small group for direct instruction of school-wide expectations that includes additional opportunity for structured practice and direct behavior specific feedback. Since SEB Skills Groups are ideally re-teaching of skills taught to all students at tier 1, it is recommended that these groups are open-ended for student enrollment at any time. This ensures earlier access to needed support for students. The re-teaching of tier 1 skills allows this type of group to be facilitated by varying staff roles (e.g., teacher, paraprofessional). Intervention leads to generalization most effectively when students are also supported by CICO, where classroom teachers provide students positive behavior feedback on a DPR related to their transference of newly learned skills taught during group.

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  • Structure
  • Skills taught
  • Staff certification

SEB Skills Group

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  • Structure
  • Skills taught
  • Staff certification

Similar to a SEB Skills Group, students are supported in a small group for direct instruction of SEB skills identified for a specific area of need (e.g., anxiety, depression, anger) recommended to be from an evidence-based curriculum. Complex SEB groups are generally more therapeutic (i.e., depend on trust within the group, skills build upon one-another); therefore, it is recommended that these a) be facilitated by credentials indicated in the curriculum and b) be closed-ended groups that students can only be enrolled during week 1 of the group. Generalization of skills learned during an intervention is most effective when youth are supported by CICO and receive positive behavior feedback from their classroom teachers on DPR. It is important that teachers are familiar with the skills being taught and can recognize when students are successfully transferring these skills to their daily lives.

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Critical Feature Additional Instruction Time

SEB Skills Group

Students participate in social skills instruction in small groups for 30 minutes once a week for 6 weeks.

Complex Cognitive Behavioral Group

Students participate in cognitive behavioral instruction in small group for 45 minutes once a week for 15 weeks.

Complex Emotional Regulation Group

Students participate in social skills instruction small group for 40 minutes once a week for 12 weeks.

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Critical Feature Additional Structure and Predictability

SEB Skills Group

Daily morning check in and afternoon check out.

Group is once a week.

Open-ended structure.

Complex Cognitive Behavioral Group

Morning check-in and afternoon check-out.

Check-in with teacher on emotional regulation state before class

Guided imagery one time per day

Practicing school-wide regulation strategy

Group is once a week.

Closed structure to establish rapport and trust to create confidentiality to share more specific experiences

Complex Emotional Regulation Group

Morning check-in and afternoon check-out with added emotion check.

Check-in with teacher on emotional regulation state before class

Include validation when appropriate.

Practicing school-wide regulation strategy

Group is once a week.

Closed structure to establish rapport and trust to create confidentiality to share more specific experiences

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Critical Feature Additional Opportunity for Feedback

SEB Skills Group

Youth has additional opportunities for modeling and practicing of skills taught at tier 1 during group.

The DPR prompts teachers to provide feedback to youth on specific skills from group.

Complex Cognitive Behavioral Group

Youth has additional opportunities for modeling and practicing of skills during group.

Student self-assessment rating on DPR with teacher support and feedback.

Complex Emotional Regulation Group

Youth has additional opportunities for modeling and practicing of skills during group.

Rapport and trust create confidentiality to share more specific experiences.

Practicing diary cards — daily logs that track moods/emotions, identify triggers, and skills to deal with uncomfortable emotions.

The DPR prompts teachers to provide feedback to youth on specific skills from group.

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Critical Feature Additional Progress Monitoring

SEB Skills Group

Daily Progress Report with skills from group.

ODRs / Attendance / Nurse Visits / etc

Complex Cognitive Behavioral Group

Student tracker on DPR for the use of coping skills.

ODR / Time out of class / Attendance.

Complex Emotional Regulation Group

Student tracker on DPR for use of coping skills.

Daily Progress Report with skills from group.

Time out of class / Attendance