
156 Functional Behavior + SEL IEP Goals for Grades 6–12
Writing meaningful behavior and SEL IEP goals for middle and high school students can take FOREVER.
You're trying to identify the actual skill a student needs, account for their current supports, make the goal measurable, and write language that reflects the increasingly complex demands of secondary school. All while juggling approximately 700 other responsibilities.
This goal bank does a whole lot of that thinking for you.
Inside, you'll find 156 ready-to-customize Functional Behavior + SEL IEP goals across 52 specific skill areas, designed with the needs of middle and high school students in mind.
These goals focus on meaningful skills that help students navigate multiple teachers, manage academic responsibilities, advocate for their needs, participate in educational decisions, and prepare for life beyond high school.
156 specific, ready-to-customize IEP goals across 52 functional skill areas
3 goal options for every skill area: With Structured Support, With Available Supports, and Across Natural Settings
"Use This Goal When..." guidance to help you identify which goals fit a student's needs
Possible progress-monitoring methods for each goal area
Important considerations to support ethical, individualized goal writing
Guidance for choosing meaningful mastery criteria based on student needs and baseline data
Self-awareness, emotional regulation, and personal agency
Self-advocacy and educational access
Executive functioning and workload management
Flexibility, problem solving, and decision making
Communication, peer relationships, and conflict
IEP participation and self-determination
Independence, transition, and future planning
Secondary students are navigating increasingly complex academic, social, and personal responsibilities. Their IEP goals should reflect that.
This bank includes goals for communicating with multiple teachers, understanding and requesting accommodations, managing competing deadlines, planning long-term assignments, navigating complex peer relationships, participating in IEP meetings, and identifying future goals and support needs.
The language is age-respectful, functional, and designed to support increasing student agency.
You won't find 80% accuracy automatically attached to every goal.
Meaningful progress looks different depending on the student, the skill, their baseline, and the supports they use. This resource gives you specific goal language while leaving room to individualize mastery criteria, levels of support, and measurement methods.
You already have enough on your plate without spending 45 minutes trying to figure out how to word one behavior goal.
Find the student's area of need, identify the corresponding skill, choose the goal option that fits, and customize it.
156 specific starting points to help you write functional, measurable behavior and SEL IEP goals without starting from scratch.
Perfect for special education teachers, school social workers, school psychologists, related service providers, and other IEP team members working with students in grades 6–12.
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