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Legal requirements are distinguished from recommended professional practice, helping practitioners understand not only \u003cstrong\u003ewhat good practice looks like, but what is actually required\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned especially with the realities of small districts, charter schools, rural schools, and schools with limited specialized personnel in mind, the series does not assume access to a large special education department or outside consultants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery title is designed to stand alone while forming part of the broader \u003cstrong\u003eWEC Practical Guide Series\u003c\/strong\u003e—a growing professional library for building stronger, clearer, and more defensible student-support practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePractical guidance. Professional tools. Clear next steps.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Wales Education Consulting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wec-practical-guide-08-how-to-conduct-a-functional-behavioral-assessment","title":"WEC Practical Guide 08 — How to Conduct a Functional Behavioral Assessment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA functional behavioral assessment should be more than a form. It should be a disciplined process for defining behavior precisely, gathering meaningful evidence, identifying patterns, developing a defensible functional hypothesis, and using that hypothesis to design more effective support.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow to Conduct a Functional Behavioral Assessment gives school professionals a practical framework for carrying out that process in real educational settings. The guide distinguishes an FBA from informal observation, discipline investigation, behavior screening, and a behavior intervention plan; explains how to select and use direct-observation measures; shows how to analyze antecedents, consequences, setting events, and competing hypotheses; and demonstrates how to write a clear FBA report without overstating what descriptive data can prove.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA running fictional case follows Marcus Reed, a seventh-grade student, from the initial concern through operational definitions, records review, interviews, direct observations, ABC analysis, competing hypotheses, the final functional hypothesis, the written FBA, and translation into a function-based BIP framework.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe guide includes 27 practitioner tools for planning, interviewing, direct observation, measurement, pattern analysis, hypothesis development, reporting, FBA-to-BIP alignment, and progress monitoring. 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