How to Create an Intervention

Create an Individual Intervention Plan

1. Locate and click the student’s name on the Students tab. Tip: to find the student quickly, use the student search box at the top

2. Click Create Plan in the Intervention Plans section of the student profile

3. Enter the intervention plan details

• Intervention type
• Tier - See also: What tier is it?
• Focus area (optional) - NEW! March 2023
• Intervention goal
• Intervention strategy - Choose intervention from the library in the drop-down (See also: How do I add or remove strategies from the drop-down?) or create a custom strategy. Custom strategies created in an intervention are not banked.
• Start date
• Duration
• Schedule (optional)
• Intervention references (optional)

4. Click Continue

• Champion - See also: Teachers are missing from the champions list
• PM method - Important Note: if you don't see a measure in the list, it means your district hasn't used that measure before. Once a student (any student) in the district has a score for that assessment, it will populate in this drop-down. When selecting the PM method, please make sure you're selecting the option with the correct PM grade level in parenthesis for measures with grade level options. If you select a measure without a grade level, the data will not connect.
• PM frequency -Tip: this controls the Progress due alert on interventions so select intended frequency to ensure correct alerts

5. Click Save. 

Create a New Group Intervention Plan

1. Click the checkbox to the left of the students' names on the Students tab or in a static or smart group list. 

2. Click Create group intervention plan on the action menu that appears at the top of the page

3. Enter the intervention plan details in the pop-up screens

• Students (another opportunity to add/remove students)
• Intervention group name
• Intervention type: Literacy, Math, Behavior or Attendance
• Tier - See: What tier is it?
• Intervention goal
  • Focus area (optional) - NEW! March 2023
  • Choose from the drop-down (See: How do I add or remove items from the intervention strategies list?) or create a custom strategy. Custom strategies created in an intervention are not banked.
• Intervention strategies
• Start date
• Duration
• Schedule (optional)
• Intervention references (optional)

• Champion - See: Teachers are missing from the champions list, how do I add them?
• PM method - Important Note: if you don't see a measure in the list, it means your district hasn't used that measure before. Once a student (any student) in the district has a score for that assessment, it will populate in this drop-down. When selecting the PM method, please make sure you're selecting the option with the correct PM grade level in parenthesis for measures with grade level options. If you select a measure without a grade level, the data will not connect.
• PM frequency - Tip: this controls the progress due alert on interventions so select the intended frequency to ensure correct alerts
• Pre-intervention reflection (optional)

5. Click Create Intervention.

Tip: You can also use the Intervention Plans page to create a new group intervention plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

Teachers are missing from champion or intervention team list, how do I add them?

Here’s what’s required for a staff member to populate in the list of available champions/team members:

• they must have access to the student(s) in Student Success. In other words, they can see the student on their Student's tab. For the classroom user role, this means the student must be scheduled into at least one course with the teacher.
• they must have logged into student Student Success at least once
• Overnight refresh must run after the staff member logged in. Note: this is only for others to see the staff member in the list of champions. Users will see themselves in the list upon first login. 

What Tier is it?

”Tier” is sometimes used to indicate the intensity of intervention. In Iowa, you are more likely to see the terms “targeted” and “intensive” intervention in the Intervention System Guide (p. 8). Generally speaking, targeted (tier 2) interventions group together students with similar needs and intensive (tier 3) interventions are based on individual diagnostics to pinpoint the individual issues. Both can be delivered in a small group setting, and note that specially designed instruction (SDI) for special education may exist across the tiers of intervention; it is not its own separate tier.

Additional FAQs available in: Frequently Asked Intervention Questions

Glossary of Terms:

Intervention type: The area of focus for your intervention. Though interventions can cover multiple focus areas, it is important to choose the primary one as the type; you can always create another intervention for the same student if you need to. By default, this is set to ELA. Selecting a type also allows you to organize your interventions.

Tier: The level of intensity of the support. Select Tier 2 if a subset of all students at the school receive this support. Select Tier 3 if the support is directed at very few students and requires external resources.  By default, this is set to Tier 2.

Goal: The skills to build or areas to improve.  We recommend framing these notes as positive (opportunity to grow) rather than negative (problem to solve). 

Intervention strategies: A list of actions or activities you can take to support a student (customized by your district). You can use "+Add custom strategy" to write one in yourself, which will not be added to the district library.

Champion: The educator responsible for carrying out the intervention with fidelity. The champion dropdown only shows educators who have access to a student's profile and have logged into the system at least a day ago.

Start date: The date the intervention is set to begin, which can be today or any date in the past or future. By default, this is set to today's date.

Duration: The expected length of the intervention. By default, this is set to 6 weeks. We recommend setting for the full year and reviewing, as needed.

Schedule: Adding a schedule allows you to set a session frequency and duration to better explain how often you meet or intervene with a student. 

Monitoring frequency: How frequently you expect the champion to update progress. By default, this is set to “Weekly.” Other options include “Bi-weekly” and “Monthly.”

How will you track progress?  The tools and resources you’ll use to track student progress. If you are progress monitoring in FastBridge, you can select it in this field. If you choose Notes only, you will be able to track progress through observational notes. An intervention with a progress monitoring assessment will include a graph that plots a student’s scores over time compared to their goal, though you can also add observational notes as needed.

Monitoring Method: A list of FastBridge assessments to track progress. You may also choose "Custom method" to add your own.

Baseline: This field is visible if the Monitoring method is set to Custom method. It's the place the student is starting at. Enter the student’s most recent score. If the student hasn’t taken the assessment yet, enter “0.” 

Target: This field is visible if the Monitoring method is set to Custom method. The desired score that will indicate that the intervention was successful.