Classroom Management: Procedures and instructional techniques that are used to establish a classroom environment that promotes learning. Management strategies are based on understanding how the classroom environment can be used to best accommodate student needs.

Functional Behavioral Assessment: Also known as Functional Assessment. The process of collecting information in order to develop hypothesis statements regarding the variables that maintain and predict problem behavior. Functional assessment strategies include indirect assessment methods, direct observation, and functional analysis.

Interdisciplinary Team: A group of people from different perspectives or disciplines that join together to problem solve and develop educational and behavioral plans. Team members may include the student, parents or other family members, teachers, therapists, community members, job coaches, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and paraprofessionals.

Positive Behavioral Support: A comprehensive set of strategies that are meant to redesign environments in such a way that problem behaviors are prevented or inconsequential, and to teach students new skills, making problem behaviors unnecessary.

Punishment: A consequent stimulus that reduces the probability a behavior will occur.

School-Wide Discipline: A unified approach for implementing behavioral support strategies by all staff members within a school. The purpose of a school-wide discipline plan is to increase the consistency and effectiveness of behavioral support strategies and to prevent problem behaviors by teaching and reinforcing desirable behaviors.

Self-Discipline: Regulating one's own behavior for the sake of improvement.

Self-Management: An intervention approach that is considered part of self-determination and involves teaching a student new skills for self-monitoring, self-evaluating, and self-recording behavior.

Staff Development: Educational opportunities that continue throughout a teacher's professional career and unite staff as they implement new innovations within a school. Ideally, staff development should include the active input of everyone within the school community while encouraging collaboration, dialogue and reflection.

System: A set of related or interacting variables which function together for a specific purpose. Systems are dynamic and often change over time.