Redefining Student Accountability

The time has come to separate academic achievement from student behavior attributes. Author and trusted assessment expert Tom Schimmer shares a three-tiered framework and trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching responsibility, nurturing student accountability, and addressing student behavior in a way that teaches students the life skills they need to thrive in the classroom and in the larger world.

This book will help K–12 teachers and administrators:

• Learn how to create trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching the skills of responsibility to students
• Discover how to improve students’ social competence through a process of goal-setting, self-monitoring, and self-reflection
• Gain an understanding of how the PLC at Work® and RTI at Work™ processes, as well as strong assessment practices, can redefine student accountability in the classroom
• Understand how reinforcement works and how to use it to benefit students
• Explore why behavior should be separated from grades and how to effectively assess and report on behavior

Contents:
Introduction: Their Worlds are Real!
Chapter 1: Redefining Student Accountability within the Assessment context
Chapter 2: Redefining Student Accountability within the PLC at Work context
Chapter 3: Redefining Student Accountability within the RTI context
Chapter 4: Teaching and Reinforcing Student Accountability
Chapter 5: Correcting and Supporting Student Accountability
Chapter 6: Prioritizing and Reporting Student Accountability
Chapter 7: Self-Regulating Student Accountability
Afterword