Report threatening messages online to an adult
When to use this goal
For students who get threatening, harassing, or pressuring messages or posts (including threats from peers or requests for photos) and reply, forward them, or keep them to themselves. Fit depends on device use and the student's understanding, not grade. Practice uses scenarios; real cases follow school and family protocols.
- Baseline
- Write five scenarios that match the apps the student actually uses. Score the four steps: no reply, screenshot, block, and tell. Ask the family what devices and apps are in use and whether there is a family plan already.
- Tips
- Requests for photos are a safety issue, not a dating issue; include them in scenarios. Never shame the student for what they received. Real threats go through the school protocol and may involve police; the student must know that reporting never gets them in trouble.
- Limits
- Scenario answers may not predict real behavior. The goal does not cover the student's own posting, which belongs in a digital citizenship goal.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID bh-saf-036.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, when presented with a scenario of a threatening or pressuring message or post from a peer, the student will say they would not reply, take a screenshot, block the sender if needed, and show it to a trusted adult independently in 5 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive monthly scenario sets, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected five scenarios once a month, plus any real reports.
Baseline: 1 of 5 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 5 opportunities.
- Annual goal434 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, when presented with a scenario of a threatening or pressuring message or post from a peer, the student will say they would not reply, take a screenshot, block the sender if needed, and show it to a trusted adult independently in 5 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive monthly scenario sets, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected five scenarios once a month, plus any real reports.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- When presented with a scenario of a threatening or pressuring message or post from a peer
- Behavior
- The student will say they would not reply, take a screenshot, block the sender if needed, and show it to a trusted adult independently
- Criteria
- In 5 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive monthly scenario sets
- Evaluation method
- Opportunity-by-opportunity data
- Schedule
- Five scenarios once a month, plus any real reports
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Matching data sheet
Opportunity tracker. One box per opportunity in each session.
Opportunity tracker
Opportunities- Student label:
- Target:
- in 5 of 5 opportunities
- Mastery rule:
- across 2 consecutive monthly scenario sets
- Collection schedule:
- five scenarios once a month, plus any real reports
- Method:
- Opportunity (trial) recording
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, when presented with a scenario of a threatening or pressuring message or post from a peer, the student will say they would not reply, take a screenshot, block the sender if needed, and show it to a trusted adult independently in 5 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive monthly scenario sets, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected five scenarios once a month, plus any real reports.
Key: + demonstrated independently · P demonstrated with a prompt (note type) · − not demonstrated · NA no opportunity occurred
| Date | Activity / context | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | # + (of 5) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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- Record up to 5 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.