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"Well, Those Students Have a Name:" Special Educators' Beliefs about Students Labeled with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
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Hannah Morris Mathews; Lindsey Kaler; Malavika Ragunathan; Elizabeth Bettini; Kathryn M. Meyer – Exceptional Children, 2025
Teachers' beliefs influence the educational experiences they provide for students with disabilities. Furthermore, beliefs are highly contextualized, necessitating careful attention to the contexts in which they are developed and deployed. Informed by DisCrit, we employed narrative analysis to explore the beliefs of five special educators working…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances
Principals' Conceptions of Their Roles Supporting Self-Contained Programs for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
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Elizabeth Bettini; Michelle M. Cumming; Alexandra A. Lauterbach; Hannah Morris Mathews – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
Special educators serving students with emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) depend on their principals' support, yet prior research has not explored principals' roles in supporting these programs. Using constructivist grounded theory methods, we analyzed interviews with five U.S. elementary school principals about their roles in supporting…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Students with Disabilities
Improving Behavior in a Self-Contained Elementary Classroom for Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: A Study of CW-FIT
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Peyton A. Johnstone; Paul Caldarella; Christian V. Sabey; Howard P. Wills – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2025
Class-wide Function-related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a classroom management intervention in which teachers incorporate positive behavior support (PBS) principles by teaching specific classroom expectations and providing feedback on student behavior as part of an interdependent group contingency. Interventions like CW-FIT may be helpful for…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Self Contained Classrooms, Students with Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances