In our last newsletter we addressed monitoring PBIS implementation in your school. We provided two pulse checks to assess the fidelity of implementation of schoolwide PBIS: Administrator Pulse Check and Teaming Pulse Check. Read on to find specific tools to assess and progress monitor the fidelity of your use of classroom practices that should beRead More Progress Monitoring Classroom PBIS
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Pulse Check: Bringing Life to the Practices at the Heart of Your Learning Environment
When was the last time you did a “health check” on your learning environment? Are you progress monitoring PBIS implementation in your school? Just as we monitor the progress of individual students, it is equally important that we progress monitor the implementation of evidence based practices, and even teams, within our schools. Read more toRead More Pulse Check: Bringing Life to the Practices at the Heart of Your Learning Environment
Providing Academic and Behavioral Feedback: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Too often, adults assume that all students arrive to school equipped with the social, behavioral and work-related academic skills necessary to meet social expectations that will serve them in the school environment and beyond. Most students acquire these skills through support and models available from school, family, and community experiences. However, not all students haveRead More Providing Academic and Behavioral Feedback: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Cool Tools for Classroom Management
Research More schools are moving toward a proactive, preventative system of positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) to cultivate more effective and efficient learning environments (Horner, 2015). As that transition happens, it is important for teachers to establish clear, concise classroom rules and procedures and to anchor them to school-wide expectations for consistency and predictability.Read More Cool Tools for Classroom Management
Technology Tools to Support Behavior
There are many ways to use technology to support student behavior in classrooms and schools. Check out some technology tools below that you can use to provide immediate instructional feedback to students, teach students to self-monitor, support behavioral instruction in schools and collect and share data to support decision making in schools. Using technology tools, suchRead More Technology Tools to Support Behavior
Executive Function Skills and the Connection to Behavior
How many times have you considered students’ inattention in class, poor behavior or poor grades as laziness, lack of studying, or simply lack of motivation and caring? Suppose it is none of these, but rather weaknesses in executive functioning skills? And what if there was something you could do to help your students succeed? WhatRead More Executive Function Skills and the Connection to Behavior
12 Ways to Increase Students’ Writing Using Opportunities to Respond
“It’s not what you say or do that ultimately matters… It IS what you get the students to do as a result of what you said and did that counts.” Anita Archer We all know that student engagement (on-task, active participation in the lesson) is a positive behavior that has a direct correlation with increasedRead More 12 Ways to Increase Students’ Writing Using Opportunities to Respond