Stage 2 vs. Stage 3
This stage of support must be completely exhausted before a student can transition to Stage 3.
What is Stage 2?
This is the pivotal question the Stage 3 Team must ask during their initial review
What is "Are more intensive supports needed for the student?"?
This behavioral acronym stands for the assessment used to find the exact triggers and functions of a student's actions.
What is an FBA / Functional Behavior Assessment?
These low-profile, high-impact desk or wall tools provide immediate environmental support to a struggling student.
What are visual reminders?
A teacher complains that their Tier 2 reading group isn't working for a student. The Stage 3 team should check this data first.
What is the Stage 2 triangulated data?
Stage 3 marks a major paradigm shift from teacher-centered support to this type of support.
What is student-centered support?
Instead of guessing, the team Stage 3 team acts as these types of "investigators" to find where a student needs help.
What are diagnostic investigators?
These specific screenings are used to pinpoint precise gaps in a student's academic or developmental skills.
What are diagnostic assessments?
This term describes the specialized, temporary academic frameworks added to help a student access grade-level text or tasks.
What is specialized scaffolding?
A student is acting out to escape math tasks. The team uses this tool to prove the escape function.
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment?
While Stage 2 focuses on how the teacher delivers instruction, Stage 3 looks holistically at this.
What is the individual student / root cause/barriers?
This is the first thing the team must uncover before prescribing any interventions.
What is where the student needs support / root causes?
The Stage 3 team leverages these specific assessments when emotional or psychological barriers are suspected.
What are mental health assessments?
If a classroom environment or peer dynamic is a barrier, the team can authorize this structural change.
What is a schedule or roster change?
The team decides to change a student's third-period class. This is an example of this type of intervention.
What is a schedule/roster change?
This is the ultimate goal that Stage 3 interventions aim to push the student closer to meeting.
What are grade-level standards/general ed. curriculum?
To understand a student's historical and current performance, the team conducts this comprehensive file review.
What is a case study record and data review?
Alongside assessments, the Stage 3 team uses these proactive community-building practices to repair relationships and support students.
What are restorative practices?
These are the four domains (academic, mental health, behavioral, and social-emotional) that must be addressed in this final customized document.
What is an intervention plan?
his ongoing, continuous action must happen after an intervention plan is launched to ensure it is actually working.
What is progress monitoring?
Unlike the interventions suggested for teachers to use with students at Stage 2 and often delivered in standardized groups, Stage 3 interventions must be this.
What is highly individualized (or customized)?
To maintain strict legal and ethical compliance, this group of stakeholders must be informed partners with the Stage 3 team.
Who are the parents or guardians?
This quantitative metric must be clearly defined on an intervention plan to measure exactly how a student responds to a strategy over time.
What is progress monitoring data (or a measurable baseline/goal)?
This is the systematic, data-driven process of slowly removing temporary structural supports as a student gains independence.
What is fading (or systematic fading)?
A student reads at a 2nd-grade level but is in a 5th-grade science class. The team implements graphic organizers and text-to-speech to provide this specific strategy.
What is specialized scaffolding?