Behavior System™.
A premium consulting partnership for districts and therapeutic day schools. Built on four pillars — Structure, Strategy, Staff, and Sustain — to give your teams the systems, coaching, and leadership rhythm that make behavior support actually work in real classrooms.
Who this is for
Districts & programs ready for a real partner.
Every engagement is built around your context. But the patterns we see tend to fall into two camps.
You need behavior systems your teams will actually use.
Districts rolling out MTSS, fixing a Tier 3 process that's overwhelming their BCBAs, or building capacity in a behavior team that's stretched thin. You're not looking for one more PD day — you're looking for a partner who can help build systems that hold.
- Special Education Directors building district-wide behavior systems
- Student Services Directors trying to reduce escalation rates
- BCBA supervisors needing expert backup on the hardest cases
- District behavior teams who need coaching, not just resources
You need clinical depth without another full-time hire.
Therapeutic programs that need a fractional behavior systems strategist — someone who can support your team without becoming another full-time salary line. Clinical depth, BIP consultation, and leadership-level partnership.
- Clinical & Program Directors needing strategic behavior consultation
- Therapeutic programs with rising acuity and staff turnover
- Day schools building or rebuilding trauma-informed frameworks
- Teams needing ongoing coaching, observation, & leadership backing
Why most behavior systems quietly fall apart
Three patterns we see in almost every district.
Behavior plans don't fail in design. They fail in implementation — and they fail predictably, in three repeating patterns.
Your MTSS is built. The classrooms tell a different story.
The framework looks good on paper. The flowcharts are in the handbook. But Tier 1 isn't holding, referrals keep climbing, and staff don't trust the process. Most MTSS rollouts don't fail in the design — they fail at the implementation layer that PD days never reach.
You have clinical talent — and they're running on fumes.
Your BCBAs are between buildings, drowning in caseload, writing plans that nobody implements. They don't need another training video. They need expert backup, implementation coaching, and a partner who can build their capacity instead of replacing them.
You've invested in training. Nothing changes on Monday.
Paraprofessionals sit through PD. Teachers get the slide deck. And classrooms look the same on Monday. The issue is rarely the content — it's the coaching cadence, the leadership rhythm, and the sustainability layer traditional PD never includes.
The Framework
The School-Based Behavior System™
Sustainable school behavior support, built on four pillars: Structure · Strategy · Staff · Sustain.
Tier 1, environment & MTSS structure.
The foundation every behavior system sits on. Classroom design, referral flows, MTSS structure, and the Tier 1 conditions that determine whether anything else holds.
FBAs, BIPs & targeted interventions.
The plans themselves — FBAs, BIPs, and Tier 2/3 interventions. Designed to be implementable in real classrooms by the staff who actually carry them out.
Capacity, coaching & training.
Where most plans collapse — staff capacity. Coaching, training, paraprofessional support, and BCBA mentorship that build the people who build the kids.
Leadership rhythm & sustainability.
The rhythms that keep it from collapsing — monthly leadership calls, feedback loops, accountability cycles, and intentional transfer of ownership to your team.
Every partnership package addresses one or more pillars. Every add-on service maps to a specific pillar. The whole framework gives your team a shared language for the work — and a roadmap for what to build next.
Scope
Let's be clear about what this is.
Premium consulting means clear scope. Districts get a strategic partner — not an on-call crisis BCBA.
- ✓ Strategic systems consultation
- ✓ Implementation coaching for your team
- ✓ Behavior team mentorship & coaching
- ✓ BIP & FBA review and feedback
- ✓ Professional development & training
- ✓ Leadership collaboration & systems planning
- ✓ Problem-solving difficult cases & complex situations
- ✗ Unlimited crisis response or same-day emergencies
- ✗ Direct therapy or student services
- ✗ Acting as a district employee or BCBA of record
- ✗ Managing full student caseloads
- ✗ Expert witness work or legal testimony
- ✗ Medicaid billing documentation
- ✗ On-site visits as default (available as travel-billed)
Partnership packages
Three levels of district partnership.
Each package addresses one or more pillars of The School-Based Behavior System™. Scale the partnership depth to match what your district actually needs.
For districts who need expert eyes on the room — without a full-time fractional partner.
- Monthly strategy meetings with leadership
- Your current behavior systems audit
- BIP/FBA review & feedback
- Limited IEP attendance (1/mo)
- Email support within boundaries
- Supporting your current behavior team
Single buildings or smaller districts wanting expert backup without a full partnership.
For districts actively building systems — with the coaching cadence to actually implement them.
- Everything in Foundation, plus —
- Ongoing coaching cycles for staff & behavior teams
- Behavior team mentorship
- Systems implementation support
- Monthly training session (90 min)
- Referral system consultation
- Remote IEP participation (up to 2/mo)
- Leadership collaboration calls
Multi-building districts or therapeutic day schools building systems at scale.
A fractional behavior systems strategist embedded across your district or program for the full school year.
- Everything in Partnership, plus —
- District-wide behavior systems consulting
- Quarterly in-person consulting days
- Leadership consultation & admin coaching
- Advanced coaching for behavior teams
- MTSS/behavior systems oversight
- Implementation accountability rhythms
- Priority scheduling & response
District-wide rollouts or whole-program engagements that need a true partner.
What a typical month actually looks like
You're not buying hours.
You're buying these moves.
A real month, from a real engagement (district names changed). When your team asks "what are we paying for?" — this is the answer.
2,800 students · 6 schools. One district BCBA. Special Ed Director (Karen) is your contact. Engagement is steady-state — audit done, framework in use.
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Monthly leadership call Pillar check-in with Karen + the district BCBA. Two decisions made on spring PD investment.1.0 hr
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BIP review — complex 4th-grade case Reviewed using the FBA Quality Rubric. Sent a 1-page feedback memo with 3 recommendations.1.25 hr
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IEP attendance — placement debate Joined remotely for a contested 7th-grader IEP. Pre-call prep + meeting + post-call debrief.0.75 hr
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Async strategic backup 3 email threads: parent complaint framing · Title funds budget question · BIP data follow-up.0.5 hr
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Coaching call with district BCBA Sarah needed to push back on a building admin's request that conflicted with the BIP. Worked through it.0.5 hr
6,200 students · 8 schools. 2 district BCBAs + 1 behavior coordinator, all in active coaching. The month the para training gets delivered.
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Para training delivered to 42 staff 90-min virtual training across middle & high school. Customized slides + recorded for absent staff.2.5 hr
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Coaching cycles — 3 behavior team members Marcus on FBA fidelity · Priya on coaching teachers on Tier 1 · David on referral data interpretation.2.75 hr
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3 BIP reviews + IEP attendance BIPs reviewed with structured feedback. 1 complex IEP attended remotely on a placement-risk case.2.5 hr
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Monthly leadership + bi-weekly check-ins Janet (Student Services Dir) on the monthly call + 2 mid-month strategy check-ins.2.0 hr
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Async support & documentation 5 substantive email threads. Coaching tracker updates. Building-admin talking points drafted.1.75 hr
110 students · therapeutic K-12. 4 BCBAs + 2 lead teachers in coaching. Mid-year review month with the Q2 in-person consulting day.
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Full in-person consulting day 3 classroom observations · working session with behavior team · leadership debrief · admin coaching with Dr. Patel.8.0 hr
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Mid-year review & 2-page synthesis doc 90-min special call with leadership + delivered written review with Q3-Q4 priorities.3.5 hr
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Coaching cycles — 6 staff members 4 BCBAs in advanced coaching + 2 lead teachers on co-regulation strategies.5.5 hr
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BIP/FBA reviews + 2 IEPs + MTSS check-in 5 BIPs + 2 FBAs reviewed. 2 complex transition IEPs attended. Quarterly data review with leadership.5.5 hr
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Leadership coaching + async support 1-on-1 with Dr. Patel prepping her January board presentation. 8 email threads. 1 crisis consult.6.0 hr
District names changed. Hours, activities, and outcomes are representative of real engagements. A full breakdown for each tier — including how Month 1 differs from steady-state — is available in the District Services Guide.
Additional services
Premium add-ons, mapped to the framework.
Each add-on is available standalone OR as an enhancement to a partnership package. Every add-on is tagged with the pillar(s) it serves — so you can build the right scope for your district.
Professional Development Day
Full or half-day PD sessions tailored to your district's needs. Topics include proactive classroom supports, de-escalation strategies, behavior basics for educators, trauma-informed support, and realistic school-based intervention. Includes presentation, materials, Q&A, and follow-up recommendations.
Virtual and in-person options available.
Paraeducator / Support Staff Training
Practical, classroom-focused behavior training for paraprofessionals and support staff. Behavior basics, escalation response, prompting strategies, reinforcement, classroom professionalism, implementation fidelity, and relationship-building.
Designed for staff who are in the room every day.
FBA / BIP Intensive Support
Consultative support for high-needs or complex student situations. Records review, behavior systems recommendations, FBA/BIP feedback, team consultation, implementation guidance, and data problem-solving.
Consultative support — does not replace district responsibility for direct services or implementation.
Additional IEP Attendance
Remote participation in IEP meetings outside contracted consultation hours. Includes pre-meeting review, virtual attendance, and post-meeting collaboration & recommendations.
Available to current partnership districts only.
In-Person Observation / Consultation Days
On-site consultation days may include classroom observations, systems walkthroughs, on-floor coaching, leadership meetings, implementation support, and behavior team collaboration. Scoped to your priorities.
Travel billed separately. Available with advance scheduling.
Leadership / Behavior Team Coaching
Ongoing mentorship and coaching for district behavior teams, instructional coaches, school-based BCBAs, student services teams, and administrators overseeing behavior systems. Includes consultation meetings, implementation support, and systems problem-solving.
A standalone option for districts not yet ready for a full partnership.
Summer District Training Package
Multi-session summer training package for districts preparing for the upcoming school year. MTSS/behavior systems setup, referral systems, Tier 1 supports, de-escalation, classroom systems, paraeducator training, and implementation planning.
Custom-scoped to your district's priorities for the school year ahead.
District Resource Toolkit Licensing
District-wide access to selected School-Based BCBA templates, implementation tools, staff supports, visuals, training resources, and behavior systems materials.
Pricing scales with district size and usage. Custom licensing available.
Emergency / Expedited Consultation
Limited availability for urgent consultation requests outside of scheduled support. Reserved for districts in active partnership packages.
Emergency availability not guaranteed — by request only.
Custom project-based pricing available for larger engagements. Add-ons can be bundled with any partnership package — let's discuss what your district actually needs.
How we work together
From discovery call to district partnership.
A simple, transparent process. No bloated onboarding, no surprises.
Discovery Call
A 30-minute conversation to talk through your district's context, your team, and what's actually happening in your buildings.
Scoped Proposal
Within a week, you'll receive a written proposal mapped to the framework: which pillars we'll focus on, deliverables, and start date.
Kickoff & Pillar Audit
Month one is your pillar audit — where each S stands in your district right now. We align on priorities before the work begins.
Ongoing Partnership
Monthly leadership rhythm, direct consult hours, and progress against the framework. Scope flexes as your priorities shift across the year.
About your consultant
A school behavior systems consultant who built her work inside real classrooms.
Meghan Edwards began her career in schools as a special education teacher — managing classrooms, writing IEPs, and learning firsthand what behavior support actually requires when you're the one in the room every day.
As a BCBA, she brings that classroom-first perspective into every district engagement. Her work focuses on the gap between behavior plans and behavior implementation — the layer most clinical training never reaches.
Meghan founded School-Based BCBA to bring real-world classroom expertise to behavior support across districts and therapeutic programs — partnering with leadership teams who want sustainable systems their staff will actually use.
Meghan Edwards · M.Ed · BCBA · LBA · LBS1Common questions
What administrators usually ask.
If we don't cover it here, we'll talk it through on the discovery call.
Can we use Title I, IDEA, or PD funds to pay for this?
What if our district needs more than the Embedded package includes?
Is this in-person or virtual?
Do you provide direct services to students?
What's the minimum commitment?
What happens after the engagement ends?
How do we get started?
Let's build the system your district needs.
Book a discovery call.
30 minutes. No pitch. Just a conversation about what your teams are working with — and which pillars we'd build together.
Or download the district services guide: school-based-behavior-system.pdf →
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Simple systems. Better decisions. Sustainable practice.
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