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Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2023
This guide summarizes proactive, efficient, empirically-supported, and data-driven systems for supporting educators' implementation of classroom PBIS practices. Specifically, this Guide to Classroom Systems and Data is a companion to the practices guide, "Supporting and Responding to Students' Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs:…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Implementation, Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems
Smolkowski, Keith; Strycker, Lisa A.; Anderson, Lynne; Marconi, Peggy; Abia-Smith, Lisa – Grantee Submission, 2020
This pilot study evaluated a novel professional development (PD) model designed to prepare K-12 educators in high-need, rural school districts to teach evidence-based argument writing. The PD showed teachers how to engage students in discussions about visual art using Visual Thinking Strategies to enhance students' argumentation writing. Twenty…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Critical Thinking, Persuasive Discourse
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Lawdis, Katina; Baist, Heidi; Pittman, Corinthus O. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2017
This evidence-based project provided a professional development opportunity for school-based therapists to gain knowledge about evidence-based practice and learn strategies to integrate newly learned knowledge for the purpose of becoming an evidence-based practitioner. The purpose of the project was to determine whether a six-module online course…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, School Health Services, Evidence Based Practice, Professional Development
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Barrett, Courtenay A.; Newman, Daniel S. – School Psychology Forum, 2018
Although research supports the effectiveness of the multitiered system of supports (MTSS) on academic and behavioral outcomes, districts aim to engage in data-based decision making and examine the effectiveness of their own MTSS implementation. This case study describes how one regional education service agency (RESA) in the Midwest implemented…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Learning Disabilities
American Institutes for Research, 2015
The Conditions for Success brief helps programs examine their readiness for implementing new teacher induction by identifying the ideal conditions for successfully implementing teacher induction. Ten program conditions are identified and described with a goal of providing guidance and opportunities for programs that do not have all of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Evaluation, Success, Instructional Leadership
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Shippen, Margaret E.; Houchins, David E.; Lockwood, Susan – Journal of Correctional Education, 2014
The primary purpose of this article is to provide juvenile corrections (JC) education leaders with considerations related to arranging for and implementing professional development (PD) opportunities for JC teachers. Additionally, this information can be used by JC teachers who want to be better informed about PD expectations and requirements. The…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Professional Development, Decision Making, Correctional Education
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Nash, Ruth C.; Richardson, Yvette M.; Hodge, Patricia H.; Connell, Peggy H.; Green, Zebbra P. – Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 2014
Based on current research, many students in the middle grades (6-8) have not performed at their highest academic levels. In 2011, more than one-half of eighth graders in 16 Southern states scored basic or below basic on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Alternatively, effective principal-leaders strategically demonstrated…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Instructional Leadership, Educational Practices