Book Review: School-Centered Interventions: Evidence-Based Strategies for Social, Emotional, and Academic Success

Volume 45 Issue 4

This book proposes a systematic framework for establishing evidence-based interventions and tailoring those to individual students. ...

Comprehensive School Safety: Leading and Advocating for What Works

Volume 47 Issue 6

Volume 47 Issue 6

Graduate students describe their role as social and emotional learning facilitators in a middle school program designed to support student academic success through improving school culture and climate, and to promote positive values and learning-to-learn skills. ...

Dogs Go to School: Using Therapy Dogs to Help Elementary School Children

Volume 45 Issue 8

Volume 45 Issue 8

This article explains how therapy dogs are being used in an elementary school in New Fairfield, Connecticut. ...

Using Technology to Lead a Large-Scale Data Project

Volume 46 Issue 5

Volume 46 Issue 5

This article highlights a project to collect data on services to support students with emotional needs. ...

Book Review: Social And Emotional Skills Training For Children: The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual

Volume 46 Issue 8

Volume 46 Issue 8

Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children guides schools and other child-serving agencies in providing skill intervention to students in grades K–5 who are lacking social competence. Target students have ongoing difficulties gaining peer acceptance due to maladaptive behavior (e.g., aggressi ...

Presenters in Focus: School-Based Social–Emotional and Behavior Screening: Using Data to Guide Interventions

Volume 46 Issue 2

Volume 46 Issue 2

In this Q&A, 2018 convention presenters Katie Eklund and Stephen Kilgus discuss best strategies for engaging in universal screening at school. ...

Childhood Trauma: Information for Educators

Volume 47 Issue 1

Volume 47 Issue 1

This handout defines childhood trauma, child reactions to trauma, and what schools can do to help children who have experienced trauma. It also provides a variant of resources for educators. ...

Student Support Staff Reports of Approaches to Identifying and Supporting Student Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs

Volume 48 Issue 6

Volume 48 Issue 6

This article shares findings from the student support survey of the NEEDs2 project, which gathered nationwide data regarding current use and perspective on school-based social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) screening. Findings are organized around three themes with the intent to help school psycho ...

Engaging Families in the Social–Emotional/ Behavioral Screening Process: Implementation Considerations

Volume 49 Issue 5

Volume 49 Issue 5

Teachers are the most common informants in elementary social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) screening, with parents rarely included as informants. This article describes a partnership between university faculty and a public school district that worked together to select, develop, and implement SEB ...