Project ACHIEVE is an innovative school reform and school effectiveness program that has been implemented in schools and school districts across the country since 1990.To date, one or more of its components have been presented to almost 1,500 schools in virtually every states—with the schools ranging from urban to suburban to rural, and from the lowest performing to the highest performing schools in the nation.
Nationally, Project ACHIEVE has been implemented in:
* Preschool, Head Start, and Early Childhood Programs * Elementary Schools * Middle Schools * High Schools (especially relative to school climate and safety issues) * Alternative Schools (all levels) * Charter Schools and Facilities serving Special Needs Students * After-School Programs
Project ACHIEVE’s ultimate goal is to help design and implement effective school and schooling processes to maximize the academic and social/ emotional/behavioral progress and achievement of all students.Project ACHIEVE has also helped schools to implement effective and efficient problem-solving and strategic intervention processes for students with academic and behavioral difficulties, while improving the staff’s professional development and effective instruction interactions, and increasing the quality of parent (and community) involvement and engagement.In all, Project ACHIEVE helps schools, communities, and families to develop, strengthen, reinforce, and solidify children and adolescents’ resilience, protective, and effective self-management skills such that they are more able to resist unhealthy and maladaptive behavior patterns.
For Consultation Support in this Area-- Contact: Dr. Howard M. Knoff
Project ACHIEVE is an innovative school reform and school effectiveness program whose ultimate goal is to help design and implement effective school and schooling processes that maximize the academic and social/emotional/ behavioral progress and achievement of all students. To accomplish this, Project ACHIEVE uses an evidence-based Implementation Blueprint that guides schools through a series of carefully sequenced steps over a three-year period. While adapted to the needs and existing status of each school, the Implementation Blueprint, nonetheless, ensures the integrity of the Project ACHIEVE process so that all schools have the highest probability of success.
Applying to Become a Project ACHIEVE School:
School and districts that are interesting in becoming involved with Project ACHIEVE, or in implementing one or more of its components may contact Dr. Knoff directly. Typically, all schools complete a Project ACHIEVE Application. This consists of a School Profile Form-- that provides your Project ACHIEVE trainer with some important background and demographic characteristics of your school, and a School Commitment Checklist.
Professional Background: Dr. Howie Knoff Howard M. Knoff, Ph.D. is the creator and Director of Project ACHIEVE and a full-time national consultant, author, and lecturer.He is also the Director of the State Improvement Grant for the Arkansas Department of Education—Special Education Unit.
Formerly a Professor of School Psychology at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) for 18 years and Director of its School Psychology Program for 12 years, Dr. Knoff has over 25 years of experience as a practitioner, consultant, licensed private psychologist, and university professor. Known for his research and writing in organizational change and school reform, consultation and intervention processes, social skills and behavior management training, personality assessment, and professional issues, Dr. Knoff is an author of seven books, including the Stop & Think Social Skills Program (Preschool through Middle School editions) and the Stop & Think Parent Book: A Guide to Children’s Good Behavior.
During his career, with colleagues, Dr. Knoff has been awarded over $10 million in external grants—including a foundation grant from the Metropolitan Life Foundation, and seven grants from the U.S. Department of Education. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Nationally Certified School Psychologist through the National Association of School Psychologists, a Licensed Psychologist in Arkansas, and he has been trained in both crisis intervention and mediation processes.Dr. Knoff was the 21st President of the National Association of School Psychologists which now represents over 25,000 school psychologists nationwide. He has published more than 75 articles or book chapters, delivered over 500 papers or workshops nationally, and received numerous awards—including the Lightner Witmer Award from the American Psychological Association's School Psychology Division in 1989 for early career contributions.
