The Behavior Bulletin aims to empower campus leaders in coaching classroom teachers to improve student behavior and outcomes. By providing resources, training, and support, we aim to equip educators with the tools they need to create positive and supportive learning environments, reducing the isolation teachers often feel when dealing with discipline challenges.

Limit Setting (also referred as Choice Making)

Limit Making Tips

• Be sure to honor whatever choice the student makes. Be positive about the choice rather than engaging in any form of negativity (e.g., “Really? You’re gonna choose the computer…again?!”). This is a great chance for specific positive feedback (“Great choice to use the computer for your assignment; let’s get you set up!”).
• For some students, you may need to explicitly teach them how to engage in choice making. This might mean modeling, guided practice, and independent practice as well as prompting to help them engage successfully in making choices.
• Make sure the choices you provide are appropriate for the student (e.g., age, developmental level, culture, preferences).
• Choice is unlikely to work well for increasing engagement in a task or compliance with directions if the student doesn’t have the required skills to follow through. So make sure students are able to engage in whatever skills they need, and provide instruction or additional supports if needed.
• Some students may respond better if choices are provided in other formats than verbal. For example, providing a choice board with pictures of options may be a helpful visual support for choice making. (Here are some examples of related visual supports.)
• You can provide choices class-wide as well as to specific individuals.
• Come up with a wide selection of choices you can use for the context in which you want to improve student behavior, so you can vary the options you provide over time.

Putting It All Together:

This plan outlines a comprehensive MTSS - Behavior framework to proactively address challenging student behavior in Tomball ISD. MTSS utilizes a tiered approach, providing increasingly intensive interventions based on individual student needs.

THS - 6.94%

GLJHS - 18.53%

TIS - 15.38%

RES - 42.68%

Reminder: Your certification is valid for 30 days after the expiration date listed on your blue card. If you wait until after your 30 day grace period you will need to take the initial training. Please check your dates! AM refreshers are 9-12; PM refreshers are 1-4.

Precorrections 10/8/24

Behavior Specific Praise 10/1/24

Student Support Specialists

Sarah Cato - EEA, CPES, WCES, THS, LIFE18

Ami Phillips - GLJHS, TJHS, TMHS, WWJHS, OIS

Jennifer Sewell - DPES, LES, WES, WEST, NIS

Brianne Carbery - CES, CFES, CPJHS, TCES

Rodeliah Elloie - TES, RES, GOES, Connections Academy

Nikki Braddick- TIS

Audra Arnold - STAR

Behavior Specialist- Ami Phillips

Email: amiphillips@tomballisd.net

Phone: (281) 357-3140 x4126

Website: Behavioral Health Website- TISD

Location: Tomball Innovation Center (TIC)

11211 Farm to Market 2920, Tomball, TX, USA