Using Data to Intensify Behavioral Interventions for Individual Students.

Isaac, the fictional student described in this article, had a history of behavior problems that became more intensive and frequent after he began middle school. This article describes how his teachers began instruction at Tier 1 of a response-to-intervention model of school-wide behavior interventions, which proved insufficient for addressing his behavior problems. His teachers proceeded through several interventions in Tier 2, which provided insufficient support. Isaac was then moved to a Tier 3 intervention, which proved successful. The article shows how school staff--and Isaac's mother--developed an intensive and individualized intervention plan based on the results of a functional behavioral assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]