What Is a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?
A behavior intervention plan is the written plan that typically follows a functional behavior assessment. It describes the target behavior, its hypothesized function, the replacement behavior the student will be taught, and how the team will prevent, respond to, and reinforce behaviors consistently.
In plain language
The BIP is the game plan: what we do before the behavior (antecedent strategies), what we teach instead (replacement behaviors), what we do after (responses and reinforcement), and how we track whether it's working. Consistency across adults is what makes it succeed.
Classroom example
For a student whose escape-motivated refusals spike at writing time, the BIP specifies: writing tasks chunked into two-minute segments, a taught break-request card, praise for using it, and a shared data sheet every adult uses. The teacher's daily logs become the progress evidence for the plan.
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