Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline Resource Database

IDC’s Success Gaps Toolkit outlines a process that district and school teams can use to identify and address discipline disparities revealed through the state’s accountability system or through self-evaluation. The toolkit, with its process and materials, provides a manageable and defined way for districts or schools to take a closer look at their educational system to ensure an equitable education for all students. This toolkit is designed for district and school leaders responsible for conducting root cause analyses.

If states and districts are to address discipline disparities effectively, they must first have high-quality data. IDC’s SEA Edit Check and Data Display Tools allow states to identify potential business rule errors or errors in category sets, subtotals, or totals before submitting their data to OSEP. Offering user-friendly data summaries, this resource also has edit check tools that permit states to directly copy and paste their EDFacts data files, as opposed to manually entering the data. 

Inside this 3-part collection, Parent Centers and other stakeholders will find: an overview of the requirements for functional behavior assessments and positive behavior supports (PBS) in the IEP under IDEA, both proactively and in response to behavioral incidents; and the discipline-related procedural safeguards under general and special education law and court cases, including manifestation determinations. Parent Centers and others can search the collection to identify key strategies, tools, and resources that they can use: when advising and supporting parents around PBS and discipline issues, and when partnering with state agencies on evidence-based strategies to improve performance on discipline-related indicators in the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report.

The purpose of this training is to gain foundational knowledge of how all behavior serves a purpose or function. This foundational knowledge is core to understanding behavior, supporting students with challenging behavior, and diagnosing the function of behavior and developing effective behavioral interventions. This module introduces function of behavior and provides suggestions for how you can use this understanding within the context of a data-based individualization (DBI) process. While this module briefly mentions the role of a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA), this is not the focus of this module. This module builds on content covered in the Behavior Basics: Understanding Principles of Behavior module. While this module provides a brief review of behavior basics, we recommend ensuring participants have a complete understanding of behavior basics, prior to engaging with this presentation.

This toolkit includes information, guidance, and templates to assist Part C and Part B 619 program staff with creating or enhancing their data governance policies and procedures. This toolkit may be helpful for programs interested in sharing data across multiple agencies and with local programs to gain a better understanding of social emotional development and discipline across early childhood programs young children with disabilities attend.

The purpose of this toolkit is to help state Part C and Part B staff effectively create and present data visuals. Data visualization can be a helpful tool in increasing the use of data to drive programmatic and systemic improvement. For each data visualization topic, a comprehensive set of resources and information is provided including design principles, data considerations, accessibility tips, general how-to’s, examples, and sample tools.

This toolkit contains information, guidance, and templates to help Part C and Part B 619 program staff build effective data teams and support conditions for a culture of data use at state and local levels. It may be helpful to states and local programs interested in collecting and using data regularly to inform systems change and program improvement related to promoting the social competence of young children and reducing exclusionary discipline of young children.

This webinar focuses on building state capacity for centering equity in the collection, use, analysis, and reporting of administrative data collection to improve equitable access and outcomes.

The DaSy framework is designed to assist Part C and Section 619 programs in developing and enhancing high-quality state data systems and in improving the quality of their IDEA data. These resources have been identified by DaSy content experts as the most useful publicly available resources to help states in that work.

This Brief outlines strategies for district leadership teams to reviw multiple data courses related to discipilne and PBIS impementation to guide professional learning and technical assistance.

This series of webinars focuses on collecting, analyzing, and using data through virtual engagement and highlights the importance of meaningful engagement of stakeholders to state and local data efforts.

This 4-part call series supports collaboration between Part B, Section 619 Coordinators and Part B Data Manager or data staff responsible for preschool special education data. Participants will gain strategies necessary for using an equity mindset within the full data life cycle, such as analyzing data to identify and remove barriers to equitable access, experiences, and outcomes.

The Digging into Data recorded webinar series offers guidance on the use of data tools related to implementation fidelity of systems and practices and the use of the Behavior Incident Report System (BIRS). The sessions on the use of the BIRS can be used to guide programs in the implementation of the sysem and use of data for decision-making related to child challenging behavior and the use of exclusionary discipline.

This interative tool creates easy-to-read charts and graphs of State-level discipline removals, including in-school and out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and unilateral removals, using IDEA Section 618 data states submit to OSEP.

Since 1968, the U.S. Department of Education has conducted the Civil Rights Data Collection to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools, including discipline practices. State, local and school-level data are available to explore and analyze discipline data across schools, districts or States.