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  • The Pre-Referral Process: Procedures for Supporting Students with Academic and Behavioral Concerns
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What is the pre-referral process?

  • 1: Overview of the Pre-Referral Process
  • 2: Goals and Benefits of the Pre-Referral Process

What are the stages of the pre-referral process and what do they involve?

  • 3: Six Stages in the Pre-Referral Process
  • 4: Stage 1: Initial Concern
  • 5: Stage 2: Information Gathering
  • 6: Stage 3: Information Sharing and Team Discussion
  • 7: Stage 4: Discussion of Possible Strategies
  • 8: Stage 5: Implementation and Monitoring of Strategies
  • 9: Stage 6: Evaluation and Decision Making

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What are the stages of the pre-referral process and what do they involve?

Page 3: Six Stages in the Pre-Referral Process

As Mr. Young explains the stages of the pre-referral process to Ms. Delatorre, he is careful to reemphasize that pre-referral is flexible enough to address concerns about student performance in any academic area, as well as those related to student behavior. He also illustrates with examples from pre-referral meetings held at Macy Middle School how the process works at its various stages.

Although schools might call their pre-referral teams by different names or outline somewhat different procedures for those teams to follow, the pre-referral process itself can typically be divided into six distinct stages:

Stage 1: Initial concern regarding a student’s progress
Stage 2: Information gathering
Stage 3: Information sharing and team discussion
Stage 4: Discussion of possible strategies
Stage 5: Implementation and monitoring of strategies
Stage 6: Evaluation and decision making

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The six stages of the pre-referral process will be discussed individually on the subsequent pages of this module.

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