Home-school communication is essential to academic success, but for minority parents, cultural and linguistic barriers prevent effective home-school collaboration by discouraging parent input into their child’s educational decisions. Effective home-sc . . .

Successful and practical classroom management strategies can alleviate teacher stress and burnout rates. Despite the lack of support teachers report in implementing behavioral modifications, positive research-based approaches like the ones taught in t . . .

Emergent literacy skills are an important beginning step for kindergarten and first grade students in order to read successfully in later grades. An initial literacy deficit often impairs the future success of less prepared students. A student’s first . . .

The purpose of this project is to research the effectiveness of a condensed and modified social and emotional (SEL) learning curricula based on the Strong Kids 3-5 (Merrell, 2007a) materials. The goal is to provide school communities and teams (teache . . .

Over the last decade, the use of paraprofessionals to provide special education delivery has greatly increased. Despite this fact, very little research has been performed to determine whether this is an effective manner for service provision. Research . . .

The authors collaborated and shared equal responsibility in all aspects of the development of this project, which reviews current research on best practices for school psychologists completing psychoeducational assessments and reports. Practicing scho . . .

This project was completed through a collaborative effort between the three authors. Research was conducted by all three authors. Delia Villasefor completed the abstract and chapter one, three, and four. Bethany Grove and Melanie Searls completed chap . . .

The continued confusion of how to appropriately assess African American students for special education eligibility and the continued use of intelligence tests has resulted in the sustained overrepresentation of African American students in special edu . . .

The authors collaborated and shared equal responsibility in all aspects of the development of this project, which looked at the effectiveness of using social and emotional learning programs with science-based proven effectiveness. Research shows that . . .

Numerous research studies indicate that refugee children attending schools in California are at greater risk of developing mental health issues due to their experiences which may have included chronic adversities during pre-migration, migration and re . . .

This workshop presentation will focus on best practices for presenting difficult news to parents and the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) team. Specifically, it will focus on the assessment and eligibility criteria of mental retardation. This prese . . .

This staff development workshop aims to promote mindset-based instruction for use by school professionals. Through our literature review on the motivation and learning of students, it has been established that a difference in the theory of intelligenc . . .

Carolyn Chang and Yelena Novakovskiy Terzi worked collaboratively on this project from planning to submission. Given the poor outcomes for students with Emotional Disturbance (ED), schools must continue to improve upon their programs and instructional . . .

Recent studies suggest that current perceptions regarding the validity of typical procedures utilized in functional behavior assessment may be inaccurate. In particular, descriptive assessment procedures appear to be heavily biased toward indicating a . . .

All students experience circumstances that have the potential to negatively impact their social and emotional well-being and performance in school. Limited time and resources have made it increasingly challenging for schools and parents to effectively . . .

The authors collaborated and shared equal responsibility in all aspects of the development of this project. The project focuses on social competency from a developmental perspective and the role of educators in supporting student social, emotional, an . . .

As more children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), schools are struggling to meet their behavioral needs in the general education environment. Oftentimes, school administrators, behavior support teams, and general education teachers d . . .

The authors collaborated and shared equal responsibility in all aspects of the development of this project, which identifies how caregivers of students with an intellectual disability (ID) can utilize evidence-based strategies when teaching sexuality . . .

The authors collaborated and shared equal responsibility in all aspects of the development of this project, which reviews current research on pediatric bipolar disorder and how it presents in the school setting. The motivating force for creating this . . .

Since the time dogs were first domesticated, they have played an important role in providing companionship and comfort. It was a natural extension of this human animal bond to use dogs to provide this same comfort to others as what is now know as dog- . . .