You already know what happened. You were in the room. You saw the behavior, you redirected, you de-escalated, you moved on with the lesson. And now it's 4:30, and you're sitting at your desk trying to turn that messy mental replay into something your MTSS team can actually use at next week's meeting. Here's the problem: writing behavior documentation is slow, and the language matters more than most teachers realize. Words like "defiant" and "disrespectful" feel accurate in the moment, but they d