Every Friday afternoon, teachers who documented that week get an email with intervention strategies drawn from the patterns in their own ABC data.
The weekly strategy emailScreenshot coming soon
What arrives
A week in review, one or two sentences on what your data showed.
Two or three strategies. Each one has:
- A title
- Why it is being suggested, tied to the specific pattern in your week
- One concrete thing to try on Monday
- The named ABA framework it comes from
The point is the Monday step. A strategy you can start without planning a whole new system is one you might actually run.
Who gets it
Teachers who have:
- The teacher role
- An email address on their account
- A school
- At least one report filed in the last seven days
If you did not document anything that week, you do not get an email. There would be nothing to base it on.
It goes out every Friday at 4:00 PM Central.
Where the suggestions come from
Your own ABC reports from the last seven days, aggregated. Behavior categories, antecedents, staff responses, times of day, durations.
No student names or identifying information are used. The analysis works from counts and categories only. The model that generates the strategies never sees who any of the reports are about, and it is instructed never to reference an individual student.
The limits, stated plainly
Every email carries this, and it is worth reading before you act on anything in one:
These are AI generated suggestions based only on patterns in your own ABC data. They are not a functional behavior assessment, and they are not a substitute for professional judgment or your IEP team's decisions. Before putting any strategy into practice, confirm it fits the student's current Behavior Intervention Plan and review it with your BCBA, school psychologist, or special education coordinator. SPEDup does not provide clinical, medical, or legal advice.
The specific risk this guards against: a strategy that reads well but conflicts with a student's existing BIP. Nothing has observed the student. It has seen counts.
What is deliberately excluded
- Restraint, seclusion, and aversive procedures are never suggested. Not under any pattern.
- No medical, diagnostic, or legal advice.
- No specific studies or authors are cited. Frameworks are named; citations are not invented.
- No individual students are referenced.
Frameworks it draws on
Antecedent intervention, positive reinforcement, differential reinforcement (DRA, DRO, DRI), token economies, functional communication training, response interruption and redirection, behavioral momentum, the Premack principle, escape extinction, noncontingent reinforcement, choice based interventions, and FBA informed function matching.
Suggestions are matched to function rather than to topography. Escape maintained behavior gets antecedent intervention or functional communication training. Attention maintained behavior gets differential reinforcement or planned ignoring plus reinforcement of alternatives. Sensory behavior gets response interruption and redirection or an environmental adjustment.
Turning it off
Two ways, both permanent until you turn it back on:
- In the app. Settings, Edit Profile, then switch off Weekly AI behavior strategies.
- In the email. The unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of them.
It is on by default for teachers who are actively documenting.
How to use it well
Read it on Friday, not Monday morning. The value is having a plan before the week starts, not reading a suggestion at 7:50.
Try one thing. Three strategies is a menu, not a to do list.
Check the student's plan first, every time, if they have one. A suggestion that quietly contradicts a Behavior Intervention Plan is the risk the disclaimer is about. If the student has no plan on file, use your own judgment the way you would with any other suggestion.
Bring one to your team. "SPEDup flagged that most of Wednesday's incidents were escape maintained and suggested antecedent work at transitions" is a reasonable thing to put in front of a BCBA, a counselor, or whoever your building leans on for behavior. It is a starting point for a conversation with someone who has actually observed the student.