1. School-Based Intervention Teams: Potential Pitfalls Jim Wright www
School-Based Intervention Teams: Potential Pitfalls Jim Wright

2. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
A teacher who has never referred to SBIT before comes to the meeting believing that the team can help her get the student transferred to a special education classroom. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

3. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
Team discovers during initial meeting that they lack crucial background/baseline information about student (e.g., current reading levels, estimates of off-task behavior). !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

4. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
The referring teacher vents and vents and vents about the student during the meeting, leaving very little time to follow the problem-solving steps. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

5. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
The teacher and team start to talk about the student’s chaotic home situation. All hope is sucked from the room. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

6. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
The SBIT Team selects an intervention that does not logically link to the assessment information that they collected (e.g., deciding to include the student in a self-esteem group when the identified problem is a reading deficit). !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

7. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
The SBIT Team signs up to take on so much of the intervention and monitoring that the referring teacher has little to do. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

8. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
Confidential information about something the referring teacher said at an SBIT meeting is shared outside of the meeting—and that teacher finds out about it! !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

9. SBIT: Potential Pitfalls
The SBIT Team comes together for a follow-up meeting and discovers that the teacher was not able to implement the intervention at all. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held