School-Wide Proactive Approaches to Working with Students with Challenging Behaviors / Lyndal M. Bullock, Ed. and Robert A. Gable, Ed.

This monograph presents highlights from a 2002 forum on school-wide approaches to working with students with challenging behaviors. The forum's focus was on ways to make systemic changes to create school environments that support the use of positive academic and behavioral interventions at the building and classroom levels. The following presentations of keynote speakers are included: (1) "Behavior in the Schools: Issues Related to Students with Challenging Behaviors" (Richard Van Acker); (2) "Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Challenging Behaviors: Collaborating with General Education" (Michael N. Hazelkorn); (3) "Strategic Use of School Personnel: Providing Meaningful Behavioral Supports for Students with Challenging Behaviors and the School Personnel Who Work with Them" (Mary Karen Oudeans); (4) "Managing Kids: Direct Answers for Tricky Issues" (Anthony Moriaty); and (5) "Developing Effective Behavioral Intervention Plans and Positive Behavioral Supports" (Richard Van Acker). Also included are summaries of the following discussion groups and leaders: "Proactive Approaches To Working with Challenging Behaviors: Voices from the Field" (Howard S. Muscott and others); "Improving School Climate: Moving from 'Your Kids' to 'Our Kids'" (Karen Barnest and others); "Practicing an Ethos of Care: Laying a Foundation for School-Wide Proactive Approaches" (Teresa L. Teaff and Cathy Kea); "The Academic/Behavioral Connection: Working Effectively with Students with Challenging Behaviors" (Beverley H. Johns); and "Meeting the Needs of Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders through Proactive Approaches" (Mary E. Little). (Individual presentations and discussion summaries contain references.) (DB)

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