Interventions library

At a glance

• Who uses it: Admins curate the library; facilitators pick from it when adding interventions to a case.
• When to use it: Each time a facilitator opens an intervention on a case, and quarterly when admins prune the library.
• Permissions required: Admins edit; facilitators apply.
• Navigation path: Administration → Categories (curate) and Cases → open a case → Interventions (apply).

Purpose

The interventions library is your school's shared menu of supports. Standardizing it produces consistent intervention-trend reports across facilitators, schools, and years.

How the library is organized

• Categories — top-level groupings such as Academic, Attendance, Behavior, SEL, Family engagement. Configurable per organization.
• Interventions — specific strategies inside a category (small-group reading, daily check-in, parent contact rotation).
• Tier — Tier 1, 2, or 3, used to align with your MTSS framework.

Step-by-step

Curate the library (admins)

1. Administration → Categories.
2. Add a category. Inside it, add interventions with a name and an optional default tier.
3. Reorder by dragging — the order is what facilitators see in the picker.

[SCREENSHOT: admin-categories-tree] Administration → Categories with three categories expanded, showing interventions nested below each.

Apply an intervention (facilitators)

1. Open the case. Click Interventions → Add.
2. Pick from the library, or choose Custom to add a one-off.
3. Set frequency (daily, weekly, custom), goal, and target end date.
4. Optionally override the tier.

Retire an intervention

Set an intervention to Inactive instead of deleting it. Inactive items disappear from the picker but remain on historical cases (and in reports) so trends stay accurate.

Tips & best practices

• Keep the library short — 15–25 interventions covers most schools. Long lists slow facilitators down.
• Review the library each summer using the Intervention trends report — retire what no one uses.
• Standardize naming across schools in a district so rollups aggregate cleanly.

Common mistakes

• Letting "Custom" become the most-used intervention — that's a signal the library is missing something.
• Deleting an intervention mid-year — break historical reports. Use Inactive instead.

Related articles

• Creating a case
• Case notes
• Intervention trends

FAQ

Can different schools in a district have different libraries? Yes. Each school maintains its own; the district can recommend a baseline but does not force it.

Does AmplifyED ship with a starter library? Yes — a default set of categories and interventions is created when an org is provisioned. You can keep, edit, or replace it.