News: Positive Behavioral Support System
New NEA Policy Brief on School Discipline Highlights Project ACHIEVE as Effective Model
NEA Brief Describes Project ACHIEVE’s Successful School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management ApproachesDear Colleague,As the new school year begins for many of us, the importa...
Read Full ArticleDonald Trump, Negative Campaigns, and Social Skills: Modeling Intolerance for our Students?
Why the Education Community Needs to Seize this Teachable MomentThe campaign season that will elect our next President has clearly begun, and we have been hurled- - like it or not- - into a teachable...
Read Full ArticleThe Unfulfilled Promise of Education: Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills
Why the “Soft Skills” are the Hard Skills, and Why they are Essential for Students’ Academic Success- - What Outcomes should be Targeted?Dear Colleagues,For all of the rhetoric about ensuring that stu...
Read Full ArticleSchool Disproportionality and the Charleston Murders: Systemic Change vs. State Statutes
Why New State Discipline Statutes will NOT Solve the Minority/Special Education Disproportionality Problem in Our Schools. . . Connections with Ferguson, Baltimore, and now Charleston, SCDear Colleagu...
Read Full ArticleThe NEW ESEA Draft: Tell Congress that Capital Letters Make a Difference-- An Open Letter to Congress
How the U.S. Department of Education has Consciously Confused its Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Framework with ESEA’s “positive behavioral supports” LanguageDear Colleagues,Pro...
Read Full ArticleRestorative Practices and Reducing Suspensions: The Numbers Just Don’t Add Up
A New Center for Civil Rights Remedies Report Concludes (again) that Schools are NOT Closing the Minority and Exceptional Student Discipline GapReports say that the Chicago Public Schools’ Restorative...
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