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Category: Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports

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    Acknowledging Children’s Positive Behaviors

    1/1/07 - Matt Timm, Sharon Doubet

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Acknowledging positive behaviors is a strategy...

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    Arrested Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida

    1/1/06 - Florida State Conference NAACP,

    Arresting Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida reveals the findings of these public hearings, which were held in five cities and covered six school districts: Pinellas/Hillsborough (St. Petersburg, FL), Duval (Jacksonville, FL), Palm Beach (West Palm Beach, FL), Broward (Fort Lauderdale, FL), and Miami-Dade (Miami, FL). This report is intended to document the compelling and informative discussions that occurred among the hundreds of hearing participants—parents...

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    Asian American Pacific Islander Youth Development and Violence Prevention Programs

    Larke N. Huang , Girlyn Arganza

    "This matrix of Asian American/Pacific Islander programs provides a snapshot of over 50 programs across the country focusing on AAPI youth development and prevention of high-risk behaviors. It captures the variation in emphases and populations, innovative strategies and collaborations, the wealth of materials, including culturally-based curriculum and evaluation instruments developed by these programs, and the sources of funding ranging from the conventional to the creative. Contact...

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    Building Positive Teacher-Child Relationships

    1/1/04 - M.M. Ostrosky, E.Y. Jung

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. In early childhood settings, each moment that...

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    Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school

    Riccomini, P., Bost, L.W. , Katsiyannis, A., Zhang, D.

    This Practice Brief based on the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) supported work by The What Works In Transition Synthesis Center, The Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions on Dropout for Youth with Disabilities (Cobb, Sample, Alwell, & Johns, 2005), provides educators with a conceptual understanding and technical information to assist in implementing cognitive-behavioral interventions that reduce aggressive behaviors in students.

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    Expressing Warmth and Affection to Children

    1/1/05 - S. Twardosz

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Warmth and affection are aspects of positive...

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    Fathers and Father-Figures: Their Important Role in Children’s Social and Emotional Development

    1/1/04 - A. Quesenberry , M.M. Ostrosky , R.M. Corso

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. Over the past 50 years, the role of fathers...

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    Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children: Labeling Emotions

    1/1/05 - G. Joseph , P. Strain, M. M. Ostrosky

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Emotional literacy is the ability to identify...

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    Helping Children Express Their Wants and Needs

    1/1/05 - M.M. Ostrosky, M. L. Hemmeter , J. Murry, G. Cheatham

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. In early childhood settings, each moment that...

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    Identifying and monitoring outcomes related to children's social-emotional development

    Hemmeter, M. L., Ostrosky, M.

    Many young children engage in challenging behavior when they do not have the social or communicative skills to express their needs or feelings in appropriate ways. This fact sheet discusses how to prevent and address problem behavior by teaching children social skills they can use in place of problem behavior.

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    Implementing Policies to Reduce the Likelihood of Preschool Expulsion

    1/1/08 - Walter S. Gilliam

    This policy brief examines factors associated with expulsion from Prekindergarten (PK). Recent research has explored issues regarding the rate at which preschoolers (children ages three to four) are expelled from PK programs, as well as some of the factors associated with expulsion and the effectiveness of mental health consultation to reduce the classroom behavior problems that may lead to expulsion. Although several factors that predict an increased likelihood of expulsion have been...

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    Implementing School-wide Positive Behavior Support

    1/1/08 - Rob Horner, George Sugai, Anne Todd

    This presentation specifically focuses on implementation planning, evaluation and overcoming barriers to school-wide PBS.

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    Linking social development and behavior to school readiness

    Smith, B.

    Social competence is critically important for a child's readiness for school. This fact sheet discusses the importance of school readiness and provides guidance on how to ensure that policy, programs, and educators can promote readiness.

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    Logical Consequences

    1/1/05 - L. Fox, S. Langhans

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. Logical consequences refer to the actions or...

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    Mapping and Analyzing the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track: An Action Kit for Understanding How Harsh School Discipline Policies and Practices are Impacting Your Community

    1/1/08 - The Advancement Project,

    This Action Kit is intended to help mobilized communities (parents, youth, advocates, and educators) understand and begin to address the schoolhouse to jailhouse track so that they may ultimately create caring learning environments that push students toward colleges and careers rather than prison. It includes information on: Collecting information and data about school discipline policies and practices; Analyzing and organizing the data; and Developing messages that resonate with your audience.

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    Mental Health in Urban Schools

    1/1/05 - Howard Adelman, Linda Taylor

    When it comes to mental health, urban schools have a wide range of assets and strengths - many of which have gone untapped. These assets reside within the school staff, the students, their families, and community resources, and bring with them resilience, perseverance, and hope. Urban schools are among the most ready of our nation’s schools to focus on mental health. Part of this readiness stems from an appreciation of the importance of promoting healthy social-emotional development, and...

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