Elevate Your ABA Supervision

The RBT® Supervision Tracker exists because I got tired of losing track of who I'd actually seen face-to-face this month.

Comment TRACKER and I'll send it your way.

Compliant supervision isn't a feeling. It's a checklist.

Take the free Audit-Readiness Quiz and find out where the gaps actually are — find out here: https://link.msgsndr.com/sp/bf4530af85c.

Genuine question for the BCBAs and supervisors in this group: what does your fidelity checklist actually measure?

Mine used to measure everything about the client's session and nothing about the RBT® delivering it. Which is a problem, because burnout doesn't show up as a dramatic event — it shows up as a slow drift in fidelity and energy that we usually only notice in hindsight.

I've been testing something simple: instead of adding a new pause to the session (which never fits — the RBT® is always mid-session), use a break that's already built in. Reinforcement intervals, transitions between programs, a moment of independent play. During one of those, ask for a single word: energized, steady, flat, frustrated, overwhelmed, checked-out. Log it on the same checklist you're already using.

No extra time. No disruption to the session. Just a real data point on something we've never actually measured.

Wrote up the full thing here, including why I think this belongs in ABA's data-driven model rather than staying a "soft" wellness add-on: https://link.msgsndr.com/sp/531e0acc59a

I also made a free RBT® Supervision Tracker as a place to log this check-in right alongside your regular session data, if you want somewhere to actually put it: https://elevateyourabasupervision.com/elevate-subscribe

Curious whether anyone else is already tracking something like this — and what word bank you'd use.

We've had a serious July. Burnout. BACB® changes. Workforce shortages. Documentation at 10pm.
You've earned something fun for the last day of the month.

I built a "What Kind of BCBA® Supervisor Are You?" quiz — five questions, four personality types, painfully accurate. Go take it and drop your result in the comments. I genuinely want to know which type dominates this community.

Check it out: https://linktr.ee/ChristiWilsonBCBA

Finish this sentence — "I know my supervision documentation system needs work when ___________."

I'll go first: when I'm writing notes from memory three days later and hoping I got it right.

Drop yours in the comments. No judgment — just honesty.

And if your answer made you cringe — I built a free supervision tracker that keeps everything organized in one place. Hours, session notes, supervisee progress, documentation. Completely free. Check it out 👉 https://linktr.ee/ChristiWilsonBCBA