Responding to Crisis Within a Tiered Supports System: Supplemental Crisis Plan Tools

Part four of a four-part series. Read parts one, two and three.

  By Dawn Foreman, M. Ed. and Renee Prince, LCSW

As the school year continues, many educators and students are still functioning in a state of crisis. There continue to be limitations on how schools operate due to COVID-19 (e.g., limited staff capacity, time to participate in meetings and implement interventions with fidelity, prior to and because of the pandemic), yet the need for an effective crisis plan remains. Turnaround for Children has created some supplemental tools to further support easy planning and implementation of a tiered supports crisis plan. These ready-to-use tools are designed to take some of the initial planning off of your plate, providing a quick and easy way to jumpstart your tiered supports crisis plan immediately.

We have added the following supplemental tools to our “Action Pack” for Responding to Crisis Within a Tiered Supports System:

• Step-By-Step Guidance for Providing Crisis-Level Supports to Students, getting you started with assembling a crisis team and implementing a school crisis plan
• Sample Tiered Supports Crisis Plan, which provides an example of how to document your school’s crisis plan
• Crisis Team Meeting Roles, providing guidance and clarity about the roles and responsibilities needed to support the functioning and productivity of the crisis team meeting

Interested in more resources?

Throughout the year, Turnaround will share additional tools and resources:

• Tools and resources to support the design or enhancement of your school’s Tiered System of Supports
• Turnaround for Children’s Toolbox – an online hub for ideas and resources that empower educators to redesign classrooms, schools and systems by taking a whole-child approach

Access the Responding to Students’ Urgent Needs tools and resources on the Toolbox by creating a free account.