Develop your professional network in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Enhance your capacity to work smarter and more effectively in implementing the PBIS framework. Join us for this exciting regional opportunity for PBIS leaders and implementers in the Northeast.
Featured Keynotes:
Tim Lewis, Ph.D.,
University of Missouri Maintaining SWPBS Momentum: 25 Years of Lessons Learned
Catherine Holahan, J.D.,
EducationCounsel Research to Practice to Policy: Creating Learning Environments that Foster Student Development and Success
George Sugai, Ph.D.,
University of Connecticut Practice and Systems Alignment: Straightening and Shortening the Line between Decisions and Student Outcomes
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Dr. Lisa Sanetti in the Department of Educational Psychology within the Neag School of Education gave a CSCH Live Talk on “Teacher Wellbeing: Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask First Before Attending.”
For more information about CSCH live talks, please click here.
Early-career researcher panel and poster session featuring student research
Panelists: Dr. Amy Briesch (Northeasten University), Dr. Yan Wei (Southern Connecticut State University), and Dr. Joshua Wilson (University of Delaware)
Drs. Lisa Sanetti, Bianca Montrosse-Moorehead, and Alicia Dugan shared their slides for our Breakfast Brown Bag (B3) Series “Using Implementation Science to Improve Research and Practice in K-12 Schools.” Please see the files below.
The Center for Behavioral Education and Research (CBER) in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut is hosting its 8th Graduate Research Symposium, an annual student-led conference, on May 10, 2017. This is a great opportunity for you to present your own research posters to a large number of people! Please go to the link below and submit your proposal by Monday, April 16, 2018.
If your poster is selected, we ask that you set it up by 8:00 a.m. on the day of the event.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact CBER Graduate Assistant Hao-Jan Luh at hao-jan.luh@uconn.edu. We look forward to receiving your proposal!
Alicia Dugan
Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine at UConn Health
A panel discussion exploring implementation science concepts, frameworks, and methodologies and how they are relevant to improving translation of evidence-based practice to K-12 schools
Develop your professional network in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Enhance your capacity to work smarter and more effectively in implementing the PBIS framework. Join us for this exciting regional opportunity for PBIS leaders and implementers in the Northeast.
Project CALI (Content-Area Literacy Instruction) is a Goal 2 development grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.
The purpose of Project CALI is to develop a middle school co-teaching professional development program that improves collaboration between general (content-area) and special education teachers and, ultimately, reading skills and content-area knowledge of students with disabilities. Over the course of three years, the Project CALI team has observed what was happening in middle school co-taught content area classes, developed methods to improve literacy instruction in those classes, and is now testing to see whether the developed Project CALI methods are effective in improving student literacy outcomes in those classes.
The Project CALI framework consists of several strategies, including:
Text Selection guidelines
World Knowledge (background knowledge)
Word Knowledge (vocabulary instruction)
Getting the Gist (a powerful, evidence-based summarization strategy)
Student Support (individualized support for students with disabilities and those with typical achievement).
Dr. Devin Kearns, co-Principal Investigator, uses Lightboard technology to record professional development videos.
Marney Pollack, lead project coordinator and instructional coach presents a scaffolded reading comprehension strategy to co-teachers.
In addition, Project CALI provides teachers with instructional techniques to support student literacy. These include teaching methods that support learning, strategies for maximizing co-teaching, and tips for creating and maintaining a positive classroom environment. Teachers implement these strategies with Helper Support, or assistance from a trained instructional coach.
Project CALI training includes evidence-based professional development, which consists of videos explaining content developed by experts in the field, interactive activities to process content and check for understanding, and teacher and student materials. It also includes ongoing technical assistance. A ‘CALI Helper’, or instructional coach, provides systematic support for all participating teachers as they plan for CALI lessons, implement CALI lessons, and reflect with co-teachers to enhance future lessons.
Cheryl Lyon, project coordinator and instructional coach reflects with a participating co-teacher following implementation of a CALI lesson.
Principal Investigators include Dr. Devin Kearns (Assistant Professor of Special Education and CBER Research Scientist at the University of Connecticut), Dr. Jade Wexler (Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Maryland), and Dr. Chris Lemons (Associate Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University). Additional project staff at UConn include Marney Pollack and CherylLyon (project coordinators), Amanda Waltman and Michael Li (student research assistants), and HannaMarchini (graphic designer).