Behavior Intervention Support Team
B.I.S.T is a school-wide behavior management plan that increases student learning time, stops disruptive/hurtful behavior, and teaches skills that will lead to life success.
B.I.S.T. Helps Students Work on These Life Goals:
- I can take good care of myself, even if I am mad.
- I can be productive and follow directions even if I don’t want to.
- I can be okay when others are not okay.
Hartley Staff will partner with your child to develop skills to reach these goals.
The Two Basic Rules of B.I.S.T. are:
- It is never okay to be disruptive!
- It is never okay to be hurtful!
To help teachers, administrators, parents and students learn techniques to effect positive change and create a healthy learning environment for all. This is accomplished through G.R.A.C.E. The acronym G.R.A.C.E. stands for Giving Responsibility and Accountability to Children in Education.
| Grace is: | Grace is not: |
|---|---|
| Providing what students need, not what they deserve | Being permissive |
| Having a relationship when students reject you | Lowering standards |
| Having the courage to hold students accountable | Giving more chances |
| Accountability is: | Accountability is not: |
| Guiding students to look at what problems the behaviors create in the student’s lives | Using anger to get compliance |
| Providing consequences to protect students | Punishing students |
| Waiting for students to partner with adults | Withholding attention |
B.I.S.T. Vocabulary
You may hear your child or your child’s teachers use the following terminology.
Early Intervention
When an adult provides one redirection for disruptive behavior.
Caring Confrontation
How an adult provides the one redirection with consistent language as well as non-punitive actions and intent.
Safe Seat
A designated seat in the student’s regular classroom intended to provide a safe place where the disruptive behavior can stop. The student is not in trouble. The safe seat provides a place to keep the student out of trouble. A student can place him/herself in the safe seat as well as being assigned by an adult.
Stop/Think/Change Sheet
A form used to help students reflect on how to change their disruptive or hurtful behavior.
Processing
A discussion between the adult and student used to develop a plan for the student to be accountable for and change disruptive/hurtful behavior.
Buddy Room
A safe seat in another classroom used when a student needs an alternative safe seat for a variety reasons.
Recovery
The assignment to a safe seat or buddy room for an extended period of time for students who are having difficulty changing their disruptive or hurtful behavior.
Protective Plan
What the school and family develop together to provide the structure and support to stop the student’s disruptive behavior and to teach the student needed using skills.
Please Partner with US!
For your child to learn, perform and behave at grade level or above, your child needs to behave well in school. This means trying to never be disruptive or hurtful. If your child is hurtful or disruptive, we will follow the B.I.S.T. procedure. If your child’s teacher talks to you about his/her behavior, please partner with us!
- Help us build and then support a behavior plan.
- Talk to us and ask us questions to clarify the plan.
- Encourage your child to let adults be in charge of his/her life.
- Show your child how strong the school, teacher, family partnership is!
