The Behavior Management section of Positivity allows you to:
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Identify present levels of performance in core behavioral skill areas.
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Link relevant strategy suggestions to influence positive behavioral outcomes.
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Target specific behaviors for tracking and intervention.
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Document behaviors and strategies with ease.
Analyze strategy effectiveness through graphing and reporting. Getting started is easy and begins with these steps:
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Create a Core Behavior Profile.
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Add behaviors for tracking & record baseline data.
- Create customized strategies to address tracked behaviors and assign them to the individual student’s schedule.
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Change phase and associate strategies.
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Analyze data from behavior tracking.
Create a Core Behavior Management Profile
The Core Behavior Profile is the entry point for Behavior Tracking in Positivity. Completion of the Profile provides levels of behavioral skill demonstration and strategy suggestions to assist in planning and support.
It is recommended the Profile be completed by service providers who routinely work with the unique learner, such as a parent, therapist, and teacher. When completing as a team, provide copies of a blank Profile beforehand so that each team member has the opportunity to consider the skills being addressed.
To Begin a Core Behavior Profile:
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- Navigate to the Behavior Management tab of the Positivity menu.
- Select the desired student at the top of the page. A prompt will appear.
- Select Download Guide for a copy of the Administration Guide for full recommendations on completing the Core Behavior Profile.
- Pro Tip: Select Download Guide to share with the entire IEP team. Best practice is to answer all questions and statements as a team in order to gain an accurate picture of the individual’s social, emotional, and behavioral skills. It is important for all members to have the opportunity to consider the skills and behaviors being addressed in the Profile. To support team participation, the questions and statements from the Profile are also available in this Administration Guide for reference when completing them online.
- Select Begin to start a Profile.
- Add the names and positions of each person that will contribute to the profile.
- Select Start Profile.
The system will guide you through answering a series of questions about the specified student. You will want to select the descriptor that best matches the individual. Use the notes section to add additional details or context. The Profile may be started immediately and finished at a later date if needed. All progress will be saved once the Start Profile button is selected.
Viewing Profile Results:
Upon completion of the Core Behavior Profile, an overview of the individual’s present level and associated strategy suggestions are provided on the Profile Details page. For each category, with the exception of the Strengths & Positive Attributes section, a description of the level of demonstration for items within the category, as well as individual items, are summarized using the following levels:
- Mastery - Appropriate, consistent, and independent demonstration of a skill or behavior across people, settings, and contexts.
- Instructional - Appropriate yet inconsistent demonstration of a skill or behavior across people, settings, and contexts.
- Emerging - Limited and/or inappropriate demonstration of a skill or behavior (may include problem behavior).
- Review/Revise - Minimal to no demonstration of the skill or behavior OR skill is associated with definite problem behavior.
Below each section, a strategy suggestion will be highlighted in light blue.
The completed Profile should be shared with the IEP team. The team is encouraged to prioritize specific skills or behaviors to target based on results of the profile. Once specific targets are identified, review the strategy suggestions as options to assist in creating a plan for support and instruction of the targeted skill or behavior. Tracking behaviors can aid in this process.
Add Behaviors for Tracking & Record Baseline Data
After a Profile is completed, the Tracked Behaviors in the Behavior Management section is unlocked. Prosocial and Interfering Behaviors can be identified and tracked per individual student. To track a behavior, it must be named, objectively defined, identified as Interfering or Prosocial, and be provided with a confidentiality label. Adding tracked behaviors allows behaviors to be quickly documented via the On-Demand button in the Class Action Panel. Alternatively, behaviors can be added at a later time from the Current Status page for the student.
To Add a Tracked Behavior:
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- Navigate the Behavior Management tab of the Positivity Menu.
- Select Tracked Behaviors in the upper right-hand corner.
- Select the desired student from the top of the page.
- Select the Add Behavior button.
- Select Interfering or Prosocial.
- Provide a name for the behavior.
- Enter a Confidentiality Label (this will be an abbreviation that appears in the Class Action Panel under the specified student to prevent others from knowing what behavior is being tracked).
- Enter a definition of the behavior.
- Navigate the Behavior Management tab of the Positivity Menu.
- Select Tracked Behaviors in the upper right-hand corner.
- Select the desired student from the top of the page.
- Select the Add Behavior button.
- Select Interfering or Prosocial.
- Provide a name for the behavior.
- Enter a Confidentiality Label (this will be an abbreviation that appears in the Class Action Panel under the specified student to prevent others from knowing what behavior is being tracked).
- Enter a definition of the behavior.
(Optional) Select Show to add additional details. These details can be added later if desired.
To Record a Tracked Behavior:
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- Sign in to n2y.com
- Select the On-Demand Button in the upper right-hand corner.
- Select the Record Incident or Record Achievement Button.
- Incidents will include Interfering Behaviors and Achievements will include Prosocial Behaviors.
- Selected the desired student.
- Select the confidentiality label for the behavior you are tracking.
- Pro-Tip: Multiple behaviors can be recorded if desired.
- Select Submit Action.
Ideally, incidents and achievements are recorded immediately via the On-Demand button. If this opportunity is missed, teachers can record the incident directly to the event in the past in the Current Status section on the student’s Current Status Page.
To record an incident from the Current Status page:
- Select the Classroom or desired student.
- Switch the view to the desired time frame (Today, Week, Month, or Range).
- Select the Add Achievement or Add Incident button as desired.
- Enter the Date, Time, and Duration of the Incident or Achievement.
- Enter any desired notes.
- Select the Add button.
In Positivity, service providers have the ability to document specific phases of intervention to support tracked behaviors: baseline, intervention, maintenance, and untracked. Data may be collected for the behavior in all phases except for untracked. In addition, specific strategies may be assigned, associated, and delivered in intervention and maintenance phases to support the behavior and document fidelity of the intervention plan.
Create Customized Strategies to Address Tracked Behaviors and Assign them to the Individual Student’s Schedule
Service providers will want to continue to record Tracked Behaviors in the Baseline Phase until they can see a clear trend reflected or there is enough data to measure progress. The time for Baseline to occur will vary with each unique learner.
Once a pattern can be discerned, service providers should select a strategy or strategies that you want to use to support the behavior prior to starting an Intervention Phase. Strategies must be assigned to be delivered to the individual’s schedule in order to associate them in an Intervention Phase in Behavior Management.
Click here to review the steps for creating and assigning strategies.
- Pro Tip: Review the Core Behavior Profile strategy suggestions, Implementation Guides, and create a custom strategy tailored and labeled specific to the desired student.
Changing Tracked Behavior Phases and Associate Strategies
In order to associate strategies to specific tracked behaviors for intervention, service providers must change the Behavior Phase to Intervention. Intervention means that a specific strategy or strategies are assigned to impact the tracked behavior. The natural progression would be to update from the Baseline to Intervention Phase. Please note that strategies can only be associated with Tracked Behaviors in the Intervention or Maintenance Phase.
To Change the Behavior Phase:
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- Navigate the Behavior Management tab of the Positivity Menu.
- Select the desired student from the top of the page.
- Select Tracked Behaviors in the upper right-hand corner.
- Select the desired behavior.
- Select the +Begin New Phase button in the upper right-hand corner.
- Use the Begin Phase drop-down menu to select the desired phase.
- Select existing strategies or add offline strategies being implemented outside of Positivity to associate with the Tracked Behavior.
- Select the Begin Phase button.
Please note that the change in phase will not begin until the next day. After seeing success in the Intervention Phase this process can be repeated to update to the Maintenance Phase.
To Associate New Strategies with Tracked Behaviors:
- Select My Strategies from the Positivity menu.
- Select the +New Strategy button in the upper right-hand corner.
- Select the desired strategy type.
- Pro Tip: Use the Type, Category and Search features to filter through blank and premade templates.
- Select the text box under the Name heading and type a name for your Strategy.
- Add Tags if desired.
- Select the "Create and Edit" button to immediately open the Strategy.
- Select the edit pencil next to the strategy title.
- Select the Add Behavior button.
- Select Interfering or Prosocial.
- Select the desired student.
- Select the desired Tracked Behavior.
- Select Add.
- Repeat steps 7-11 as needed.
- Select the "Update" button.
- Use drag and drop functionality to move media from the right-hand column into the editing pane to create the desired visual.
- Save when finished.
The data recorded will reflect the delivery history of the strategies and service providers can look for the desired increase or decrease of the behavior to see if the strategies are effective for that unique learner.
Viewing Tracked Behaviors:
Tracked Behaviors can be viewed in two locations.
For a detailed view, they are visible from the Tracked Behavior sections. Service providers can select the desired behavior, and select Show on the Intervention History section. A graph and as well as a description will be displayed.
Changes of phases are represented by vertical phase lines on the graph. If adding or deleting strategies from different phases, service providers are encouraged to begin a new phase using the “+ Begin New Phase” button. If making simple adjustments to the current intervention or maintenance phase, select the “Adjust Strategies” button in the Intervention History section.
Strategies that are in the Intervention of Maintenance Phase will have the option to select the View Strategy Delivery History Icon for a detailed report.
Tracked Behaviors are also viewable at a glance on the Current Status page. Incidents and Achievements that are associated with a Tracked Behavior will display the full name of the behavior under the time that they were recorded.
Analyze Data from Behavior Tracking
To support Behavior Management, Positivity offers both Behavior Profile and Behavior Tracking Reports. Reports are accessible from the My Account menu by selecting Reports and then Positivity. Service providers (teachers, PT, OT, SLP, etc.) can use these reports to ensure they are completing the necessary profiles and can look for the desired increases and/or decreases of tracked behaviors.
Behavior Profile
The Behavior Profile Report allows service providers to view a summary of profile completion status.
The Behavior Profile Report includes:
- Completion Status - View Name, Profile Start Date, Current Profile Status and Archived Profiles for the entire classroom.
Behavior Tracking
Behavior Tracking Reports allow service providers to see a summary of behaviors set for tracking and details of recorded instances of individual tracked behaviors by student.
The Behavior Tracking Reports include:
- Behavior Summary - View Name, Behavior Status and Behavior Type for one or more individuals at a time.
- Behavior Details- A detailed report including date, time, event, notes and duration summarizing one or more tracked behaviors by student for a designated period of time.