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EC Behavior Incident Report (BIR) Team Worksheet

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The Michigan Multi-Tiered System of Supports Technical Assistance Center has provided this worksheet for dissemination by NCPMI. The worksheet can be used during monthly leadership team meetings to review BIR data using the Look-Think-Act problem-solving process.

Behavior Incident Report System (BIRS)

The Behavior Incident Report System (BIRS) provides early care and education programs and classrooms with a system to collect and analyze behavior incidents in their program. The system provides an efficient mechanism for gathering information on elements related to behavior incidents that can be used analytically to make decisions about providing supports to teachers and children within the program. Teachers within programs collect data on behavior incidents that are not developmentally normative or are a cause of concern to the teacher. These data are summarized monthly to provide formative data for examining factors related to behavior incidents (child, teacher, activity, behavior type, behavior motivation, and responses to the behavior). In addition, these data provide summative information on the frequency of behavior incidents over time and an analysis of potential equity issue by calculating disproportionality related to race, ethnicity, IEP status, gender, and dual language learners.