Call the staff contact when separated
When to use this goal
For transition-age students who are gaining independence on outings, job sites, or public transit and need a plan for getting separated from staff. Fit depends on phone use skills and community instruction data, not grade. Practice is done through planned, supervised separations and role-plays.
- Baseline
- Start with role-plays at school: describe a separation and ask the student to show what they would do with their own phone. Score staying in place, contacting staff, and describing the location. Check the phone is charged and the contact is saved before every outing.
- Tips
- Describing the location is the hard part; teach the student to read a nearby sign or store name aloud. Agree with the family on the contact number. Safety skills are targeted at every opportunity.
- Limits
- Practice separations need a written plan and staff in sight at all times. This goal does not replace the outing safety plan or a family's own safety arrangements.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID bh-saf-033.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, during a planned practice separation on a community outing with staff watching from a distance, the student will stay in place, call or text the staff contact saved in the phone, and say where they are independently in 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive monthly checks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected four planned practices or role-plays per month.
Baseline: 1 of 4 opportunities.
- Condition
- Observable behavior
- Criterion
- Measurement method
Measurability check11 of 11 met
Met: Observable behavior. Stated as an action.
Met: Condition. Stated.
Met: Unit fits the behavior. Opportunities fits this behavior.
Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.
Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.
Met: Method produces the metric. Opportunity (trial) recording gives opportunities data.
Met: Review timeframe. Stated.
Met: Baseline and target compatible. Same unit, change in the right direction.
Met: Aligned with area of need. Still about Safety Behaviors.
Met: Level of support. Defined.
Met: Blanks filled in. Nothing left to fill in.
Checks structure and wording only. Whether the goal fits the student is the team's call.
Short-term objectives (optional)
When are objectives required?Required for students on alternate assessments (34 CFR §300.320(a)(2)(ii)); some states require them for everyone.
Paste into your IEP system
Most district systems have a separate box for each part of a goal. Copy them one at a time, or all at once as labeled text.
- Area of need
- Behavior & Classroom Expectations - Safety Behaviors
- Baseline
- 1 of 4 opportunities.
- Annual goal413 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, during a planned practice separation on a community outing with staff watching from a distance, the student will stay in place, call or text the staff contact saved in the phone, and say where they are independently in 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive monthly checks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected four planned practices or role-plays per month.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- During a planned practice separation on a community outing with staff watching from a distance
- Behavior
- The student will stay in place, call or text the staff contact saved in the phone, and say where they are independently
- Criteria
- In 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive monthly checks
- Evaluation method
- Opportunity-by-opportunity data
- Schedule
- Four planned practices or role-plays per month
Copied as plain text, with straight quotes and plain dashes.
Matching data sheet
Opportunity tracker. One box per opportunity in each session.
Opportunity tracker
Opportunities- Student label:
- Target:
- in 4 of 4 opportunities
- Mastery rule:
- across 3 consecutive monthly checks
- Collection schedule:
- four planned practices or role-plays per month
- Method:
- Opportunity (trial) recording
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, during a planned practice separation on a community outing with staff watching from a distance, the student will stay in place, call or text the staff contact saved in the phone, and say where they are independently in 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive monthly checks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected four planned practices or role-plays per month.
Key: + demonstrated independently · P demonstrated with a prompt (note type) · − not demonstrated · NA no opportunity occurred
| Date | Activity / context | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | # + (of 4) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preview shows 4 of 12 rows.
- Record up to 4 opportunities per session, matching the goal's denominator.
- Define in advance what counts as an opportunity so every data collector records the same thing.
- Count only + marks toward the criterion unless the goal specifies prompted responses.
The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.