Our Model
How It Works
Our consulting model translates the systemic ERI intervention framework into a practical service offering for schools. This model helps schools build a coordinated ERI support system that reduces fragmented decision-making, improves staff confidence, strengthens IEP implementation, and creates a predictable pathway from classroom-based intervention to more intensive clinical support.
The value to districts is a clearer continuum of care, stronger documentation, a transdisciplinary staff model, and better alignment between special education, counseling, administration, teachers, families, and outside providers. The strongest fit is with districts experiencing increased ERI classifications, school avoidance, anxiety-related attendance concerns, placement pressure, or a need to reduce reliance on costly out-of-district placements through earlier and more coordinated supports.
Four Steps To Implementation
Step 1
Assess
Conduct interviews, review documents, examine referral and placement patterns, and identify gaps in ERI support.
Step 2
Plan
Develop a customized ERI implementation plan, including level definitions, response protocols, staff responsibilities, and communication procedures.
Step 3
Implement
Train staff, model practices, support case consultation, and help leadership apply the model consistently across classrooms and support settings.
Step 4
Support
Review data, refine procedures, strengthen documentation, and support district teams in sustaining the model without long-term dependence on the consultant.
Service Offerings
ERI Systems Assessment
Review current practices, referral patterns, IEP language, staff roles, crisis response procedures, and program capacity.
Deliverable: Written findings report with priority recommendations.
Level System Design
Create or refine a schoolwide or program-specific level system that defines mild, moderate, and significant dysregulation and links each level to staff actions.
Deliverable: Customized ERI level system guide and implementation tools.
Staff Training and Coaching
Train teachers, counselors, administrators, paraprofessionals, and parents in shared language, de-escalation, classroom supports, and documentation.
Deliverable: Professional development sessions, coaching cycles, and staff reference materials.
Program Implementation Support
Support rollout through leadership meetings, case consultation, fidelity checks, and problem-solving around real implementation barriers.
Deliverable: Implementation calendar, meeting protocols, and progress monitoring tools.
Optimization and Sustainability
Use data, staff feedback, and student outcomes to refine procedures and build long-term district capacity.
Deliverable: Quarterly review reports and sustainability plan.
Measurable Outcomes for Districts
- More informed staff response to emotional dysregulation across classrooms and support settings.
- Improved clarity in IEP implementation, accommodations, counseling supports, and behavioral expectations.
- Reduced instructional disruption through predictable intervention pathways.
- Earlier identification of students needing intensified support before placement becomes the only option.
- Stronger collaboration among general education, special education, counseling, administration, families, and outside providers.
- Improved documentation for decision-making, progress monitoring, and program review.
Strategic Value for Districts
Building ERI support services in-district gives schools a more sustainable way to support students with complex emotional regulation needs while improving communication among families and staff, while ensuring the consistency of the program within the learning environment. It also strengthens least restrictive environment decision-making, improves district oversight of IEP implementation, and creates earlier opportunities to intervene before out-of-district placement becomes the primary option.
For district leaders, the strategic value is not simply keeping services local, it is building internal capacity, improving stability across teams, reducing placement pressure, and creating a reliable continuum of support. ED&M helps districts design the structures, protocols, training, and oversight needed to make that model practical and sustainable.
Why This Matters
A well-designed ERI support model helps districts move from reactive responses to a proactive, sustainable best practice of intervention. ED&M provides that structure, training, and implementation support for districts.
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