For elementary school teams engaged in student behavior supports, Team Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) provides a problem-solving framework that addresses universal data collection, decision-making, and implementation of behavior support plans. With standardized training and coaching protocols, a previous randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated the efficacy of TIPS in ideal conditions, demonstrating positive impacts on problem-solving of school level PBIS teams and student outcomes.

This five-year project intends to replicate and extend the findings from the previous efficacy trial under routine rather than ideal conditions. Investigators will conduct a randomized controlled effectiveness trial to assess the impact of TIPS training on (a) evidence-based problem-solving procedures and (b) student behavioral and academic outcomes. Investigators will conduct a replication analysis that compares the impacts of the current study, using typical school and district resources, to those of the original study, which provided more intensive research support.