Classroom teacher
Logs the moments in class, by voice between activities or with a photo of the notebook at the end of the period.
Student Profile
A student is more than a collection of hard moments.
Every adult’s logs come together in one profile, so the team sees the pattern and the next step before the meeting starts. What happened, when it happens most, and what helps, all in one place.
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All plansIncluded in every plan, the Teacher Plan too. Sharing one profile across adults is Team and Organization.
Start with who they are
Team notes at the top, where everyone sees them first.
The IEP, the current plan, known triggers and how the family likes to be contacted sit at the top of the profile. A substitute, a new para or a visiting specialist starts from the same page as the case manager.
- IEP and behavior plan at a glance
- Triggers and what helps, in the team’s words
- Family contact preference, so every call starts right
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Advisor · labeled as AI
- Pattern
- Most hard moments this month came at the end of centers, when he was asked to move to reading group.
- Try next
- A two-minute warning before centers end, with his first-then card.
- From
- His own logs, his BIP and the evidence base
The team decides whether to try it.
The Advisor’s one next step
Not a list of twenty ideas. One next step, from this student’s data.
The Advisor reads the student’s own record and offers one next step to try. It is specific to this student, so it reads like advice from a colleague who was in the room, not a generic strategy list.
Patterns surface on their own
See when hard moments happen most.
Patterns surface on their own: time of day, setting, and what tends to set a moment off. A spike at lunch shows up in the chart before anyone has to say it out loud.
No one builds a graph by hand. Every log moves the chart as soon as it lands in the profile.
What sets moments off
Follow a moment from what came before to what came after.
The behavior flow links what happened before, the behavior, and what happened after, across every adult’s logs. When transitions set off most hard moments, the team sees it, and sees which responses help.
Team and Organization plans
Every adult who works with the student, logging to one record.
Sharing one profile across adults is Team and Organization. Each adult logs the way that suits them, and it all lands in the same profile.
Paraprofessional
Adds what they see at lunch, at recess and in the hallway, the places the classroom teacher never sees.
Behavior specialist
Adds scheduled observations and sees every other adult’s logs between visits.
Case manager
Sees the whole picture across settings, ready for the IEP or BIP review.
From a special education teacher
I have solid data for the behavior team to consider placement/service changes to get the support he needs.
Before the meeting
Meetings that start with what to do next.
Teams walk into meetings knowing what to do next, not reconstructing what happened. From Tier 2 CICO through to the IEP, BrighterBalance charts the student’s whole story.
- Every adult’s logs, already in one place
- The pattern, charted by time of day and setting
- The plan and goals beside the data
- One next step to discuss
The facts
At a glance
- Who uses it
- Special educators, behavior teams and classroom teachers who share a student.
- What it brings together
- Every adult’s logs, the student’s plan and goals, team notes, and what works for them.
- Where the data comes from
- Everyday logs, scheduled observations, CICO cards and the behavior plan.
- What the team keeps
- Every decision. The Advisor suggests one next step; the team decides what to try.
Same student record
Where this connects
Every feature reads from and writes to the same student record, so nothing is entered twice.
All plans
Logging Without a Form
No form to fill out. Log the way you already work.
See Logging Without a Form: Logging Without a FormAll plans
Ask the Advisor
Answers from the student's own logs and plan.
See Ask the Advisor: Ask the AdvisorTeam & Organization
Check-In/Check-Out
Keep the paper card. Snap it and it is charted.
See Check-In/Check-Out: Check-In/Check-OutAll plans
Parent & Meeting Reports
Family reports in their language, plus your prep sheet.
See Parent & Meeting Reports: Parent & Meeting ReportsFAQ
Questions teams ask
Who can log to a student’s profile?
On the Team and Organization plans, every adult connected to the student logs to the same profile: teachers, paras and behavior staff. On the Teacher Plan, the profile holds your own logs.
Do we have to build charts or reports?
No. Patterns by time of day, setting and what tends to set a moment off update on their own as logs come in.
Where does the next step come from?
From that student’s own logs, observations and plan, and a curated evidence base. It is labeled as AI, and the team decides whether to try it.
Does the profile include CICO and observations?
Yes. CICO cards and scheduled observations land in the same student record as everyday logs, so the whole story is in one place.
See the behavior. Understand the student.
For districts and special education teams
Documentation your district can stand behind.
See how BrighterBalance fits your MTSS workflow, your rostering and the platform you already own. Most districts start with a team of five.
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