6.2.4 Matrix of Supports/Interventions for Serious Behaviors

Property behaviors

CA Education Code 

Damaging or attempting to damage school or private property.

48900(f)

Stealing or attempting to steal school or private property.

48900(g)

Knowingly receiving stolen property.

48900(l)

Robbery or extortion (i.e. obtaining the property of someone else through force or intimidation). 

48900(e)

Harassment, Bullying, or Hazing behaviors

CA Education Code 

Committed an obscene act or engaged in habitual profanity or vulgarity. 

48900 (i)

Hazing (i.e. a process of initiation into a student organization or body, whether or not the organization or body is officially recognized by a school, that is likely to cause serious bodily injury, personal degradation, or disgrace resulting in physical or mental harm. “Hazing” does not include athletic events or school-sanctioned events.)

48900(q)

Intimidating witness (e.g. harassing, threatening, or intimidating a student who is a complaining witness or a witness in a school disciplinary proceeding for purposes of either preventing that student from being a witness and/or retaliating against that student for being a witness.

48900(o)

Bullying (i.e. severe or pervasive physical or verbal conduct - including electronic communication - that places a student in fear of harm to themselves or their property or causes a substantially detrimental effect on a student’s health, academic performance or access to school activities.)

48900(r)

Sexual harassment (i.e. unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature, made by someone in an educational setting that has a negative impact on academic performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive educational environment.)

48900.2

Harassment, threats, or intimidation directed against staff or students, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to have the actual and reasonably expected effect of materially disrupting classwork, creating substantial disorder, and invading the rights of staff or students by creating an intimidating or hostile educational environment (grades 4-12 only)

48900.4

Threats behaviors

CA Education Code 

Terroristic threats (i.e. a statement that threatens death, great bodily injury, or property damage in excess of $1,000 and suggests an immediate prospect of executing on the threat; and causes the threatened person sustained fear for their safety, their family’s safety or damage to property.) 

48900.7

Harassment, threats or intimidation (see “Behavior category: Harassment, Bullying, or Hazing” for definition).

48900.4

Violence or Weapons behaviors

For other violence or weapon behaviors that can have suspension/expulsion on first offense, see the Matrix of Supports/Interventions for High Risk Behaviors.

CA Education Code 

Imitation firearm (i.e. a replica of a firearm that is substantially similar to an existing firearm).

48900(m)

Hate violence (i.e. to willfully injure, intimidate or threaten a person in their free exercise of their rights by force or threat because of the person’s actual or perceived race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity) (grades 4-12 only).

48900.3

Caused, attempted, or threatened physical injury; willfully used force or violence except in situations of self-defense. 

48900(a)(1)

48900(a)(2)

Possession, use, furnish or sale of weapons or dangerous objects (e.g. knives, explosives, other) without written school permission. 

48900(b)

Drugs, Alcohol, or Tobacco behaviors

CA Education Code 

Possession or use of tobacco or nicotine products, including cigarettes, vape/electronic cigarettes, cigars, snuff, betel. Does not apply to student’s prescription products.

48900(h)

Unlawful possession, sale, or arrangement to sell drug paraphernalia (e.g. bongs, roach clips, pipes).

48900(j)

Unlawful offer, sale or arrangement to sell Soma (prescription drug).

48900(p)

Unlawfully possessed, used, sold, or otherwise furnished, or been under the influence of, a controlled substance, an alcoholic beverage, or an intoxicant of any kind.

48900(c)

Sale or furnish look-alike controlled substance, alcoholic beverage, or intoxicant of any kind. 

48900(d)

Social-Emotional Supports

Behavioral Response to Intervention (Behavioral RTI) and Restorative Practices (RP) 

Environmental

• Skills Group *
  
  for Property behaviors: conflict resolution and social emotional learning
  
  for Harassment, Bullying, or Hazing behaviors: peace/respect/dignity/anti-violence
  
  for Threats, Violence, or Weapons: conflict resolution/anti-violence
  
  for Drugs, Alcohol or Tobacco behaviors: drug/alcohol and social emotional learning 
• Peer Mediation (Grades 6-12) * 
• Enroll in positive after-school activities
• Push-in support from school site counselor or social worker with conflict resolution

• Restorative Practice Conference * at school with affected students/staff
• Corrective feedback: De-Escalate*, teach/reteach appropriate skills, and facilitate reentry

• Make modifications that take into account known student predictors of problem behavior (consult with school site Coordinated Care Team team members for assistance)
• Professional development for in class staff in applicable/relevant areas: Behavioral RTI*, trauma informed practices, Cultural Competency*, De-Escalation *, etc.
• Meet with teacher to review student academic and behavioral data to develop a classroom plan and potentially differentiate instruction

Social-Emotional Supports

Behavioral Response to Intervention (Behavioral RTI) and Restorative Practices (RP) 

Environmental

• Mentor with progress monitoring

• Restorative Practice Conference * with family/families
• School Home Note*
• Class Pass *
• Positive Peer Reporting *
• Self-Monitoring *
• Check fidelity of established intervention plan and make modifications if necessary
• Check In, Check Out *
• Saturday school

• Consider change of classroom or more intensive in class supports

Social-Emotional Supports

Behavioral Response to Intervention (Behavioral RTI) and Restorative Practices (RP) 

Environmental

• Individual counseling (school site or off-site)
• Contact Department for Public Health (DPH) 
• School site School Social Worker (SSW) to coordinate and case manage multiple student and family services
• Home Visit *

• Restorative Practice Conference * with family/families and outside agencies
• Behavior support plan
• Direct teaching and practice of functionally equivalent replacement behavior

• Classroom Consultation * with the Coordinated Care Team