Jason E. Harlacher – författare

Discover the components of proactive classroom management. With this practical, step-by-step guide, teachers and school administrators will uncover five components that help improve student achievement and decrease classroom problems. Create clear expectations and rules, establish procedures and structure, reinforce expectations, actively engage students, and manage misbehavior. Learn how to develop individualized behavior plans to help students who continue to struggle.

By implementing schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SWPBIS), K-12 educators can create an encouraging, productive school culture. This title introduces readers to the comprehensive SWPBIS framework and explores the key elements of its three tiers of support. Learn about the authors'' personal experiences in applying positive behavior support strategies and explore practical examples of what the elements and tiers of this model look like in practice.

Learn how to implement PBIS strategies in schools:

Understand the structure of the SWPBIS framework and its four key elements.Read testimonials from principals and teachers whose schools have created positive school climates using a positive behavior support plan.Learn why decision making in an SWPBIS framework relies on data and how school teams can ensure they use their data accurately to target suitable solutions.Gain specific steps and a general timeline you can use to start implementing SWPBIS.Examine example scenarios and two thorough case examples of how elementary and secondary schools have adopted and maintained SWPBIS structures.

Contents:Chapter 1: An Introduction to Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and SupportsChapter 2: Tier OneChapter 3: Tier TwoChapter 4: Tier ThreeChapter 5: SWPBIS Into ActionChapter 6: Case Examples of Schools Using SWPBISEpilogueAppendix AAppendix BReferences and Resources

The educators are dedicated and concerned. The curriculum is successful. Yet some students aren't reading at grade level, and meetings air problems without making progress. Many students continue to flounder, leading to more meetings with the same lack of meaningful results. The Practitioner’s Guide to Curriculum-Based Evaluation in Reading gives researchers and professionals the means to break this frustrating cycle, crafted by authors who have not only been there and done that, but can explain in depth how to replicate the method. Focusing on reading but applicable across subject areas, this highly accessible guide defines curriculum-based evaluation (CBE), provides conceptual background, and analyzes its component steps. Assessment and intervention are given equal attention within a problem-solving model featuring tools for skill assessment, progress monitoring, goal setting, and other bedrock tasks. Chapters build to lead readers beyond classroom strategies to guidelines for problem solving and decision making to effectively address individual student needs.  Included in the coverage:  The curriculum-based evaluation process.Relating CBE to the Multi-Tier System of Support model.Using CBE in daily practice, both in classwork and schoolwide.Decoding, early literacy, and reading comprehension.Progress monitoring and decision making.Plus FAQs, handouts, and other supplemental materials. This level of educational insight and pedagogical detail make the Practitioner’s Guide to Curriculum-Based Evaluation in Reading a clarion call for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in school and clinical childpsychology; assessment, testing, and evaluation; applied linguistics; language education; special education and allied education; educational psychology; and social work.

 

The educators are dedicated and concerned. The curriculum is successful. Yet some students aren''t reading at grade level, and meetings air problems without making progress. Many students continue to flounder, leading to more meetings with the same lack of meaningful results.

 

The Practitioner’s Guide to Curriculum-Based Evaluation in Reading gives researchers and professionals the means to break this frustrating cycle, crafted by authors who have not only been there and done that, but can explain in depth how to replicate the method. Focusing on reading but applicable across subject areas, this highly accessible guide defines curriculum-based evaluation (CBE), provides conceptual background, and analyzes its component steps. Assessment and intervention are given equal attention within a problem-solving model featuring tools for skill assessment, progress monitoring, goal setting, and other bedrock tasks. Chapters build to lead readers beyond classroom strategies to guidelines for problem solving and decision making to effectively address individual student needs.

 

Included in the coverage:

 

The curriculum-based evaluation process.Relating CBE to the Multi-Tier System of Support model.Using CBE in daily practice, both in classwork and schoolwide.Decoding, early literacy, and reading comprehension.Progress monitoring and decision making.Plus FAQs, handouts, and other supplemental materials.

 

This level of educational insight and pedagogical detail make the Practitioner’s Guide to Curriculum-Based Evaluation in Reading a clarion call for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in school and clinical childpsychology; assessment, testing, and evaluation; applied linguistics; language education; special education and allied education; educational psychology; and social work.

The educators are dedicated and concerned. The curriculum is successful. Yet some students aren't reading at grade level, and meetings air problems without making progress. Many students continue to flounder, leading to more meetings with the same lack of meaningful results. The Practitioner’s Guide to Curriculum-Based Evaluation in Reading gives researchers and professionals the means to break this frustrating cycle, crafted by authors who have not only been there and done that, but can explain in depth how to replicate the method. Focusing on reading but applicable across subject areas, this highly accessible guide defines curriculum-based evaluation (CBE), provides conceptual background, and analyzes its component steps. Assessment and intervention are given equal attention within a problem-solving model featuring tools for skill assessment, progress monitoring, goal setting, and other bedrock tasks. Chapters build to lead readers beyond classroom strategies to guidelines for problem solving and decision making to effectively address individual student needs.  Included in the coverage:  The curriculum-based evaluation process.Relating CBE to the Multi-Tier System of Support model.Using CBE in daily practice, both in classwork and schoolwide.Decoding, early literacy, and reading comprehension.Progress monitoring and decision making.Plus FAQs, handouts, and other supplemental materials. This level of educational insight and pedagogical detail make the Practitioner’s Guide to Curriculum-Based Evaluation in Reading a clarion call for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in school and clinical childpsychology; assessment, testing, and evaluation; applied linguistics; language education; special education and allied education; educational psychology; and social work.

Consistency, connection, and compassion are the cornerstones to helping students choose and practice successful behaviors and coping skills. Bolstering Student Resilience illustrates what this looks like in action. Drawing from classroom experience, the authors demystify the buzzwords to keep you focused on the right work. Explore research that supports the why behind this work, then dive into specific strategies you can use immediately.

Create predictable, safe classrooms by establishing clear structures for routines, acknowledgment, and discipline.Set limits and boundaries in the classroom while building skills through relationships.Allow flexibility and emotional space for students--particularly those with pronounced social, emotional, or behavioral needs.Discover an approach to SEL that works across all frameworks and initiatives.Study the supportive discipline framework to replace detrimental behaviors with prosocial skills.Give feedback that supports consistency and builds connections.Provide support that matches a behavior''s function.Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Understanding Student Risk FactorsChapter 2: Using Universal Practices to Promote ConsistencyChapter 3: Giving Feedback to Support Consistency and Build ConnectionChapter 4: Creating Classrooms That Support ConnectionChapter 5: Employing Discipline That Ensures ConsistencyChapter 6: Adjusting Discipline for CompassionChapter 7: Using Data Effectively to Tie It All TogetherChapter 8: Helping Students With Ongoing NeedsEpilogueReferences and ResourcesIndex

This book offers knowledge, strategies, and tools that will help you use data effectively. Applicable to any content area, the four simple steps in this book’s problem-solving model include specific questions that will guide your use of data to identify and solve problems that stand in the way of student achievement. Learn how to change instruction, curriculum, and environment to better support students.

K–12 educators and leaders will:Understand the proper application of data-based decision makingSuccessfully utilize data to improve student learningUse worksheets and tools to organize data team meetingsBecome data rich and information richDevelop an MTSS within their school or districtContents:IntroductionPart 1: Foundations of Data-Based Decision MakingChapter 1: Overview of the Multitiered System of SupportsChapter 2: Defining Data-Based Decision MakingPart 2: Data-Based Decision Making at the Systems LevelChapter 3: Data-Based Decision Making at the Schoolwide LevelChapter 4: Data-Based Decision Making at Tier 1Part 3: Data-Based Decision Making at the Student LevelChapter 5: Data-Based Decision Making at Tier 2 for Groups of StudentsChapter 6: Data-Based Decision Making at Tier 3 for Individual StudentsEpilogueReferencesIndex