I gave a grants writing seminar at the NYS Positive Behavior Intervention Specialist Coach’s Forum. This is a strong program with many types of evaluation metrics, indicating strong success with children from all backgrounds. What I like best about the program is that it doesn’t buy into excuses, but works with a wide array of strategies to make classroom time learning time, and keep kids (especially those prone to referrals and trips to the principal’s office) in the classroom. That’s a great example of equity for our children.

Looking at underlying motivations and finding strategies that work is not easy, but this program and the resources that it puts into action make a strong case for making everyone’s classroom time count.