Behaviors Suggesting a Student in Distress:

• Hostile, aggressive, or otherwise disruptive behavior.
• Talking or writing about suicide or homicide.
• Evidence of self-harming behavior.
• Threats or references to harming others.
• Inability to communicate clearly.
• Disjointed thoughts, garbled or slurred speech, loss of contact with reality.
• Unexplained crying, irritability, anxiety, or anger.
• Beliefs or actions at odds with reality; seeing or hearing things that are not there.
• Lowering of academic performance, changes in attendance or participation, decreased ability to concentrate.
• Changes in personal hygiene, dress or appetite.
• Comments idolizing school shooters, etc.

Download the 2010-2011 Behavior Intervention (B.I.T.) brochure.