Tier 3

What is Tier 3 Support? (from the Center on PBIS www.pbis.org)?

The PBIS Triangle—The red area represents Tier 3 that supports a few students. Tiers 1 and 2 support are still used with students engaged in Tier 3 supports.

PBIS’ framework doesn’t just work with school-wide and targeted supports. It’s also an effective way to address sometimes dangerous, often highly disruptive behaviors creating barriers to learning and excluding students from social settings.

At most schools, there are 1-5% of students for whom Tier 1 and Tier 2 supports have not connected. At Tier 3, these students receive more intensive, individualized support to improve their behavioral and academic outcomes. Tier 3 strategies work for students with developmental disabilities, autism, emotional and behavioral disorders, and students with no diagnostic label at all.

Getting Started with Tier 3

Successful and sustainable implementation of Tier 3 practices requires strong systems to support facilitators of Tier 3 practices. Establishing these strong systems requires district and building leadership committing to the vision, values, and resource allocation. The Center on PBIS (www.pbis.org), defines the foundational systems needed to support the implementation of effective Tier 3 practices as:

Multi-disciplinary Team
Behavioral Expertise
Formal Fidelity and Outcome Data Collection

For more information on how to setup Tier 3 supports, check out these guides from the Center on PBIS:

Or plan for your district and building administrators and other leaders to join our Tier 3 Leadership and Systems training series.

Person-Centered Planning

Person-centered planning is an approach used to support individuals in making decisions and creating plans that reflect their unique preferences, goals, and aspirations. It emphasizes the importance of the individual's voice, autonomy, and self-determination in shaping their lives. The overall aim of person-centered planning is to support individuals in achieving a meaningful and fulfilling life based on their choices and aspirations. It promotes dignity, self-determination, and respect for individual values and preferences.

There are various ways (i.e., wraparound, PATH, MAP) to implement a person-centered planning approach. To best align with the Tier 3 features of the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI), MWPBIS Network believes that wraparound is the foundation to all other approaches.

Our Tier 3 Leadership and Systems training will support district and building administrators and other school leaders supporting Tier 3 implementation to both explore the three models of person-centered planning above, while also examining why wraparound is the foundational component.

The Tier 3 Interventions Facilitator Training: Learning wraparound and foundations of person-centered planning interventions will then provide identified facilitators with the intensive training needed to facilitate wraparound. After participating in this training series, facilitators may choose to participate in additional trainings to allow flexibility in the model of person-centered planning chosen to support a student and family.

Tier 3 Leadership & Systems

This two part training series is designed for district and building administrators along with other leaders in the building to assess your current system to support Tier 3 implementation. In the first session, leaders will learn about and assess current status of a) teaming structures to lead and coordinate Tier 3 systems, b) data to monitor outcomes of implementation, and c) coaching structures to support fidelity of practices. The second session will focus on building shared understanding for the principles and practices of Person-Centered Planning to ensure leadership support and commitment to implementation.

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Tier 3 Interventions Facilitator Training: Learning wraparound and foundations of person-centered planning interventions

This intensive and active training series is intended for individuals who are ready and prepared to begin facilitating wraparound with a student and family. In this learning series, participants will learn and practice the principles and process for facilitating effective wraparound during training sessions and then will complete tasks with a student and family between learning sessions. As participants return to follow-up sessions, they will have the opportunity to share their experiences for additional coaching and learning among their cohort of participants.

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Functional Behavior Assessment-Behavior Intervention Planning (FBA-BIP)

FBA/BIP training will provide an introduction to the concepts and systems necessary to utilize Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Planning (FBA-BIP) to support students with challenging behavior. These sessions will focus specifically on the processes and tools needed to assist coaches, facilitators and problem-solving teams in planning, implementing, and evaluating FBA-BIP.

We are not currently offering FBA/BIP training. If you have questions or would like to discuss other opportunities for training, please contact katie.pohlman@midwestpbis.org . Also, we encourage you to access our materials.

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RENEW

Developed by the University of New Hampshire, RENEW (Rehabilitation, Empowerment, Natural Supports, Education, and Work) is a unique application of the wraparound process designed for older, transition-aged youth, who are at the greatest risk of alternative placement and school dropout. RENEW focuses specifically on increasing effective school engagement, employment, post-secondary education and high school completion. RENEW has shown success in reducing school dropout and school push out, while increasing high school participation and completion for students with emotional and behavioral challenges. (Malloy, Sundar, Hagner, Pieras, & Viet, 2010).

We are not currently offering RENEW training. If you would like more information about RENEW, RENEW Training, RENEW Trainer of Trainers program, please contact the University of New Hampshire through their website https://iod.unh.edu/renew.

FBA-BIP Follow Up

This is specifically designed for FBA/BIP facilitators who have already been trained in FBA/BIP and are currently developing individualized plans for students. We will use live student plans to dig deeper and gain a greater understanding of how to do Function Based Assessments so that the hypothesis statement is accurate and can guide the BIP development process, how to identify function-based strategies to help strengthen the BIPs, and how to continue to help our stakeholders engage in function-based thinking to make our plans as effective as possible. Please come to this session with a completed Competing Behavior Pathway and Behavior Intervention Plan completed on one student from your setting. Please make sure all identifying information is taken off of your document. These plans will be used to facilitate the learning process throughout the day.

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FBA-BIP Coaching Capacity

This 1-day session will provide a refresher on the concepts and systems necessary to utilize Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Planning (FBA-BIP) to support students with challenging behavior. The session will focus specifically on how to coach facilitators in your district and is intended to help build the capacity of your district to support the FBA-BIP process.

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