Tier 2/Tier 3 Behavior Supports
Targeted teams to support all students
Tier 2/Tier 3 Behavior Supports
This comprehensive professional development helps schools and districts establish Student Support Teams (SSTs), which typically include a school psychologist, a school social worker, behavior specialist, and representative administrators and general and special education teachers. This powerful, cohort-based training helps schools build and strengthen SSTs. By learning together as a team, participants create a shared vision and develop the skills needed to support students with academic, behavioral, and emotional challenges. SSTs are essential for identifying issues early, coordinating interventions, and ensuring no student falls through the cracks. With the right training, SSTs become a driving force behind stronger outcomes, fewer referrals, and a more inclusive school culture. Safe & Civil Schools helps schools transform collaboration into action — setting every student, and every team, up for success.
This cohort-based professional development covers:
- An overview of the different tiers of behavior support
- How to define and determine team roles
- How to develop and communicate to staff a red-flag system to identify behavior issues
- Early-stage interventions
- Data collection and review
- Functional behavior assessments and behavior intervention plans
- Specialized intervention strategies
Tailored professional development that addresses your school's highest needs
Tier 2/Tier 3 Behavior Supports training
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In addition to tailored Tier 2/Tier 3 behavior supports training, Safe & Civil Schools can include Tier 2/Tier 3 behavior supports training as part of schoolwide Interventions training or Foundations training, which guides schools in designing a proactive and positive schoolwide discipline plan that establishes a positive school climate and culture, and addresses all aspects of school safety, student motivation, and academic engagement.
Targeted strategies for meeting the needs of at-risk and high-need students
Maximizing Student Success Through SSTs
Student Support Teams (SSTs) play a critical role in schools by providing targeted support to students who struggle beyond what universal, Tier 1 interventions can address. Designed to meet the needs of students requiring more intensive interventions, SSTs offer a structured, collaborative approach to problem-solving and service delivery at both Tier 2 and Tier 3 levels within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework.
At their core, SSTs bring together diverse professionals — such as school psychologists, social workers, behavior specialists, administrators, and general and special education teachers — to develop, implement, and monitor individualized interventions. This multidisciplinary approach ensures that decisions are informed by a range of expertise, addressing the academic, behavioral, emotional, and social needs of students in a comprehensive manner.
For Tier 2 students, SSTs are effective by identifying those who are at risk early, designing targeted small-group interventions, and monitoring progress closely. These interventions are typically more structured and intensive than what is offered in the general classroom but are still supplemental to core instruction. Regular SST meetings allow teams to quickly adjust strategies based on data, ensuring that students receive the support they need before problems become entrenched.
For students requiring Tier 3 support — those with significant, persistent needs — SSTs are even more critical. Teams conduct thorough evaluations, often including Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs) and the development of Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs), to design highly individualized strategies. These supports are intensive, sustained, and carefully monitored. Because SSTs rely on systematic data collection and analysis, they ensure interventions are not based on assumptions but on a clear understanding of each student's specific challenges and strengths.
The success of SSTs hinges on their use of a problem-solving model: define the problem, analyze why it is occurring, plan an intervention, implement it with fidelity, and evaluate its effectiveness. This cycle creates accountability, focuses on measurable outcomes, and emphasizes early intervention.
At Safe & Civil Schools, we believe every student deserves a team committed to their success. Our cohort-based training helps schools build those teams that are equipped to meet the complex needs of students who require more than universal supports. By training together, teams build trust, shared expertise, and a proactive approach to intervention. SSTs ensure that students are seen, heard, and supported with timely, individualized solutions. When schools invest in strong, collaborative support systems, they create environments where every student — especially those facing the greatest challenges — has the opportunity to thrive. Safe & Civil Schools is proud to help schools build the capacity to deliver the support all students deserve.
Our research-based titles supporting professional development
Tier 2/Tier 3 Resources
These research-based and practical resources from Ancora Publishing support our consultants in helping school leaders develop their skills.
Interventions & Early-Stage Interventions
Interventions and Early-Stage Interventions help educators who work with challenging students plan and implement evidence-based, tiered strategies to increase motivation and improve behavior, with Interventions focusing on schoolwide systems and Early-Stage Interventions focusing on simple, teacher-friendly interventions to use as a starting place in addressing an individual student’s chronic misbehavior— disrespect, noncompliance, lack of motivation, bullying, aggression, and more.
Encyclopedia of Behavior Intervention
The interventions in Encyclopedia of Behavior Intervention are based on research that shows proactive, positive, and instructional approaches to student misbehavior are far more effective in managing and motivating students than traditional authoritarian and punitive approaches. Encyclopedia of Behavior Intervention translates these broad ideas about behavior management and intervention into specific actions you can take to improve the behavior of individual students.
The Tough Kid Book and
The Tough Kid Tool Box
The Tough Kid Series Books are for regular and special education teachers, counselors, instructional coaches, and any educator who wants effective and positively focused classrooms. They provide suggestions for structuring your classroom to ensure success for all kids — including the most difficult. Step-by-step instructions explain how to implement both positive and corrective strategies for classrooms, groups, and individual students.
Students, like all of us, are looking for an area in which to excel. Unfortunately, students who misbehave have found that they are very good at being bad. Through years of experience, the authors found that consequences for misbehavior were necessary but not sufficient for changing chronic misbehavior. Meaningful Work focuses on changing student behavior in the school environment. This positive behavior support helps students with a history of misbehavior and school failure become contributing members of their schools.
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