Insights Blog

There is a phrase that I often use when talking with my staff, particularly those working around behavioral intervention. It goes something like this: “If I am going to be all in about us supporting students, I need to be all in as it relates to supporting our staff.” This has come from my own reflections and experiences, in which I have often been taken aback by what seemed like two very different approaches to supporting the two audiences.   Some time ago, a case manager I

Think about the last time you referred a student of concern to your campus BIT or CARE team. Now think about how many of those referrals involved young men. For many campuses, men are often underrepresented in referrals, or don't appear at all until a situation has already escalated, not because they are struggling less, but because they have been taught, in ways both overt and subtle, that struggling is something you handle alone.   Understanding why that is, and what we can

If you work on a Behavioral Intervention Team or CARE team, you know how quickly things move. A new law appears. A case at another campus raises important questions. Someone shares a reporting strategy or meeting process that suddenly makes you rethink how your own team operates. Most of us learn about these things in pieces: a conference session, a listserv thread, a conversation with a colleague between meetings. The goal of this blog is simple: to bring useful ideas about