Links

• Introduction
• Teaching Rules and Procedures
• Positive Classroom Environments
• Monitoring Progress
• Modifying Instruction
• Moving On

Introduction

• Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
  The Technical Assistance Center provides technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide behavior improvement practices.
• What Administrators Can Do to Promote Positive Student Behavior
  This electronic guide provides descriptions of prevention practices that K-8 public school administrators have found to be effective in accelerating school performance, increasing readiness for learning, and reducing problem behaviors.
• What You Should Know About School Discipline and Disability
  This is a ‘fact sheet’ that provides answers to questions about school discipline practices related to students with disabilities.
• Online Academy for Positive Behavior Support
  This website provides access professional development modules and presentations related to components of effective behavior instruction.
• What Works Clearinghouse
  The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) gathers studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies).
• Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
  A journal offering articles and information on positive behavior interventions.
• Sopris West
  Sopris West provides scientifically proven and classroom practical educational services and products including articles such as Strategies and tactics for effective instruction, The tough kid tool box, and One-minute academic functional assessment and interventions: Can’t do it…or…won’t do it?
• The Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitude Towards Public Schools
  An annual education poll on the public’s attitude towards the public school system.
  

Teaching Rules and Procedures

• School-Wide Behavior Management Systems
  This is description of promising practices focused on improving school-wide behavior as well as academic performances.
• Redesigning Environmental Systems
  This is a module that describes many of the foundations for effective behavior instruction related to teaching rules and procedures.
• Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
  This is a website that provides information about a publication that deals with principles of positive behavior support in school, home, and community settings.
• Intervention Central
  Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
• PRO-ED Inc.
  PRO-ED Inc. is a leading publisher of nationally standardized tests, resource and reference texts, curricular and therapy materials, and professional journals.
• Harry Wong Publications Inc.
  Harry Wong Publications Inc. is focused on making a difference in the teaching profession and ultimately the children that they serve.
  

Positive Classroom Environments

• Coping with Stress
  This is a description of some ways to manage some of the stressful conditions associated with teaching.
• Developing Social Competence in All Students
  This is a description of some teaching strategies for creating safe, orderly, and effective learning environments where students acquire social as well as academic skills that will allow them to succeed in school and beyond.
• Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning
  This is a description of ways to optimize learning by providing a supportive environment while facilitating student independence.
• Responsive Classroom®
  The Responsive Classroom® is an approach to teaching and learning that fosters safe, challenging, and joyful classrooms and schools (K-8).
  

Monitoring Progress

• National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
  This is a national technical assistance and dissemination center dedicated to the implementation of scientifically-based student progress monitoring.
• School-Wide Information System (SWIS)
  This is a web-based information system designed to help school personnel to use office referral data to design school-wide and individual student interventions.
• Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans
  This is a description of a systematic approach for gathering information to better understand and change problem behaviors.
• Functional Behavioral Assessment
  This mini-web provides resources needed to understand the usefulness of functional behavioral assessments and behavioral intervention plans in addressing student problem behavior.
• National Student Center on Student Progress Monitoring
  This document first describes progress monitoring procedures for which experimental evidence demonstrates these effects. Then, an overview of the research is presented.
  

Modifying Instruction

• Critical Behavior and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students
  This is a summary of some standard practices of good teaching and some specific consideration with relevance for modifying instruction when working with students from diverse cultures.
• Universally Designed Instruction
  This is a description of critical considerations related to providing instruction for the diverse range of student abilities and needs in most classrooms.
  

Moving On

• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
  The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice supports and promotes national preparedness to foster the development and the adjustment of children with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance.
• ERIC EC Digests
  These are short reports (1,500 to 2,000 words) that provide a basic overview, plus pertinent references, on topics of interest to the broad educational community.
• The Knowledge Loom
  This is a website where you can review research on best practices related to various themes.
• Effective Schools
  Effective schools Products Ltd. provides consulting services, publishing, and research to teachers, principals, and administrators across the United States and Canada.
  
  
  

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