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Analyzing Your School Discipline Data and Your SEL (PBIS or School Discipline) Program (Part I)
Students’ Discipline Problems are Increasing Nationally Despite Widespread SEL UseDear Colleagues,Introduction Happy June !!! With everyone consumed with testing, end-of-year a...
Read Full ArticleHow Hattie’s Research Helps (and Doesn’t Help) Improve Student Achievement
Hattie Discusses What to Consider, Not How to Implement It . . . More Criticisms, Critiques, and ContextsDear Colleagues,Introduction By the time you read this Blog, I will have just lande...
Read Full ArticleThe Art of Doubling Down: How the U.S. Department of Education Creates Grant Programs to Fund and Validate its own Frameworks
Call Congress: The Tainting of RtI, PBIS, MTSS, and SELDear Colleagues,Introduction In Poker, a player “doubles down” when they have a losing hand, but they want the other players to...
Read Full ArticleStates Take Note: How to Really Address the School Seclusion and Restraint Epidemic (Part II)
What State Departments of Education Need to Learn If Using PBIS to “Solve” This ProblemDear Colleagues,Introduction The number of seclusions and restraints in our nation’s schools—whether involving...
Read Full ArticleCongress Take Note: How to Really Address the School Seclusion and Restraint Epidemic (Part I)
The U.S. Department of Education Keeps Pushing PBIS, but PBIS Ain’t Got Nothing to GiveDear Colleagues,Introduction Seclusions (including isolation) and physical restraints (including mech...
Read Full ArticleRedesigning Multi-Tiered Services in Schools
Redefining the Tiers and the Difference between Services and InterventionsDear Colleagues,Introduction During the past month or so, I have been updating my electronic monograph, A Multi-Ti...
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