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BIP draft builder

Turn what your team learned from the functional behavior assessment into a one-page behavior intervention plan draft. Pick common wording or write your own, then print it for the meeting.

A BIP belongs to the student's team. This page gives the team a clear first draft to review, change, and agree on together.

  • Start from the ABC dataTriggers and function come from patterns across days and adults. The free ABC data sheet collects them.
  • One behavior at a timePick the one that matters most for the student's learning or safety.
  • Same need, better wayThe replacement behavior gets the student what the behavior gets them, as quickly.
  • Plan the review nowChoose the data method and a review date before the meeting ends.

Step 1 of 4: Target behavior

Initials only. Nothing you type here is sent anywhere.

Target behavior

Pick the one behavior the plan is for. A second is fine if they always happen together.

What an adult would see or hear, clear enough that two people would count the same moments.

Example draft Edit any step, or

Behavior Intervention Plan

Student: A.M.

Draft for the team to review

1. Target behavior

Leaving the assigned area

Definition: Leaves the assigned area without permission, counted each time A.M. is more than 3 feet from the desk or group during instruction.

2. What the FBA suggests

Likely triggers: Transition; Demand presented

Hypothesized function: Escape or avoid

A.M.'s behavior may look like leaving the assigned area, most often during a transition or after a demand is presented. The team's hypothesis is that the behavior helps the student escape or avoid a task, place, or person.

3. Replacement behavior

  • Ask for a break using a card or signal
  • Ask for help

4. Prevention and teaching strategies

  • Visual schedule
  • Transition warnings

5. Responses

When the replacement behavior is used

  • Praise that names what the student did
  • Earned break

When the behavior happens

  • Calm, brief prompt to use the replacement behavior
  • Point to the visual cue

6. Data collection and review

Method
Frequency count
How often
Daily, during reading and math
Who records it
Classroom teacher and para
Team review
________

Reviewed by the team on ____________   Team members ______________________________

A draft to discuss, change, and agree on with the student's team. A behavior intervention plan comes from the functional behavior assessment and the team's decisions, not from this page.

Drafted with the free builder at evidentk12.com/bip-builder

Common questions

Is this a finished behavior intervention plan?

No. It is a draft to bring to the team. A BIP comes out of a functional behavior assessment and is agreed by the student's IEP or student support team, often with a behavior specialist, the family, and the student where it fits. The builder gives that conversation a clear starting page so the meeting spends its time on the decisions.

What goes into a BIP?

Most plans cover the same parts: an observable definition of the target behavior, what tends to come before it, the team's hypothesis about what the behavior does for the student, a replacement behavior that meets the same need, ways to prevent the hard moments and teach the new skill, how adults respond and reinforce, and how the team will collect data and when it will review the plan.

Why does the plan ask for a function?

A strategy works when it meets the same need the behavior meets. If a student leaves the room to get away from a hard task, a sticker for staying will not last, but a break card and a smaller first step often will. The function is the team's best hypothesis from the ABC data, and it can stay open until the data points one way.

How do I write an operational definition?

Describe what an adult would see or hear, specific enough that two people would count the same moments. "Puts head down or pushes materials away within 2 minutes of a written task" works. "Is defiant" does not, because two adults will not agree on when it happened.

Does this tool store anything about the student?

No. The page asks for initials only and nothing is sent to a server. The draft lives in this tab and is gone when you close it. If you choose to create an Evident account from the page, the draft is saved in this browser only, so the plan can pick up from it once you add the student.

Can I use this as a behavior contract?

A behavior contract is a smaller agreement between a student and an adult. The replacement behavior, reinforcement, and review date from this draft are the core of one, so the printed page is a good starting point for that conversation too.

BIP writing guides →FBA and ABC data collection →