News: Intervention for Behaviorally Challenging Students

Reflecting on the Mirror of Autism: Living in a World that Doesn't Always Makes Sense

This article advocates for a fundamental shift in how educators and clinicians understand and support students with autism. The central call is to move beyond managing observable behaviors and diagnos...

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Students’ Mental Health Challenges: What They Say, What Schools and Adults Miss, and Why AI Isn’t the Answer

This Blog highlights the pervasive mental health crisis among K-12 students, arguing that schools miss early intervention opportunities due to inadequate mental health screenings and threat assessment...

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School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management: The Summer Preparations Needed for Excellence This Fall (Part II)

The Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to improve school discipline, classroom management, and student self-management during the coming new school year. It first describes th...

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Students’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss

This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...

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Research Teases Out the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences... But Many Educators Still Don’t Understand Social-Emotional Screeners, and the Limitations of ACEs-Only Assessments

Given the school-related challenges since students returned from the pandemic, this Blog discusses (a) the characteristics and concerns with social-emotional screening, and with only using an ACEs too...

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Students' Health, Mental Health, and Well-Being Worsens Over the Past 10 Years: Summary of the August 2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report (Part IV)

Blog summarizes the CDC’s national 2013-2023 Youth Risk Behavior survey results for high school students. Detailing the shaky emotional status of our students, the Blog asserts why students need multi...

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