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ADHD Students in School: Helping Them to be Successful in the Classroom
New CDC Report: Why Behavioral Interventions at Home and School are Needed to “Add Value” Even When the Medication “is Working”Dear Colleague,According to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagno...
Read Full ArticleHow to Improve your Chronically Absent Students’ Attendance… During the Summer Break
Why Now is the Best Time to Analyze, Understand, Plan, and Implement Strategic Interventions for your Most-Absent StudentsDear Colleagues,Earlier this year, on March 20th, I asserted that (grade) Rete...
Read Full ArticleThe Difference between Social Stories and Social Skills Training? A BIG Difference!
If You Don’t Know, Get a Consult. . . Before You End Up in CourtDear Colleague, As most of you concluded or have near-concluded your school year, I spent most of this past week in Court. Not to wo...
Read Full ArticleStudent Engagement (Down), Teacher Job Satisfaction (Down), School Safety and Academic Expectations (Down)
Helping to Raise our Students and Schools UpDear Colleague,In today’s message, I am actually going to start with the “punch lines” and work backwards.In working backwards, I am going to weave together...
Read Full ArticleSchool Resource Officers: Helping or Hurting Students and School Discipline?
Integrating Hiring, Training, and Deployment Criteria for School Resource Officers, School-based Police, and Security Guards into States’ ESEA-Required Bullying, Restraint, and Suspension PlansDear Co...
Read Full ArticleGrade Retention is NOT an Intervention: How WE Fail Students when THEY are Failing in School
Improving Grade Retention Policy, Practice, and ResultsDear Colleagues,Last week, I was sitting in on a series of meetings between the multidisciplinary Student Assistance Team (involving the Principa...
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