Project ACHIEVE
The Core Knowledge Foundation is pleased to announce our partnership with Project ACHIEVE in order to provide schools with social skills training and on-site consultation.
Project ACHIEVE's social skills training will enhance your school's implementation of Core Knowledge by creating a "positive, safe, supportive, and consistent school environment" through improving students' social skills and developing staff and systemic resources for managing and guiding behavior.
Project ACHIEVE, developed by Dr. Howard Knoff, is an innovative whole-school reform process that partners with schools to improve the academic and behavioral outcomes of all students, and addresses the needs of particular students who might be academically and/or socially at-risk or underachieving. Project ACHIEVE is a school-based consultation program that develops critical staff skills and intervention approaches to address the immediate and long-term academic and behavioral needs of all students. Project ACHIEVE places particular emphasis on increasing student performance in the areas of
- social skills and conflict resolution,
- improving student achievement and academic progress,
- facilitating positive school climates, and
- increasing parental involvement and support.
This is done through an integrated process that involves strategic planning, school staff and resource development, comprehensive in-service training and follow-up, student-focused instruction and intervention, and parent and community involvement, all leading to direct and preventive services for all students.
The Stop & Think Social Skills Program
The nationally-acclaimed, evidence-based Stop and Think Social Skills Program has been implemented in over 1,500 schools nationwide since 1990. Focused on teaching students interpersonal, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills, the four Stop & Think levels ensure that all skills are taught in a developmentally-sensitive and appropriate way. Each level concentrates on 10 Core and 10 Advanced Skills. These are practical skills that help students to manage their own behavior and successfully interact with others: Listening, Following Directions, Asking for Help, Ignoring Distractions, Accepting Consequences, Apologizing, Dealing with Teasing, Handling Peer Pressure, How to Set Goals.
The Core Knowledge Preschool Program has enjoyed great success with the Stop and Think program as a part of its Autonomy, Social Skills, and Work Habits training module.
Positive Behavioral Self-Management System
Project ACHIEVE's evidence-based, whole-school Positive Behavioral Self-Management System (PBSS) involves students, staff, administration, and parents in building and reinforcing
- students’ interpersonal, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills and interactions,
- positive, safe, supportive, and consistent school climates and settings, and
- school and district capacity such that the entire process becomes self-sustaining.
Thus, “self-management” occurs at three levels: student, staff and school, and system and district.
Response-to-Intervention Implementation Planning
Response-to-Intervention, or RtI, involves evaluating the degree to which students (a) master academic material in response to effective instruction and (b) demonstrate appropriate, prosocial behavior in response to effective classroom management. When students are not progressing or “responding,” academically or behaviorally, to effective instructional conditions, RtI includes a functional assessment/problem-solving process to determine the reason(s) for the lack of success, and the implementation of strategic through intensive interventions to help those students progress and be successful. While RtI must be conceptualized within the broader context of school improvement and student mastery, RtI has its most recent roots in IDEA 2004 in those areas specifically addressing students with learning disabilities.
Project ACHIEVE has been helping schools with RtI procedures for over 25 years through its SPRINT (School Prevention, Review, and Intervention Team) process. We can help you develop and implement a practical and effective RtI process that is fully compliant with IDEA and, more importantly, able to provide successful early intervention services for your students with academic and behavioral needs and challenges.
The SPRINT and RtI component is one of the most-frequently implemented Project ACHIEVE components, along with the Positive Behavioral Self-Management System (PBSS) component.
- Response-to-Intervention Implementation Planning
- Problem solving, teaming, and consultation processes component
For information on how to set up training and consultation, please contact:
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, Director of K-8 Professional Development
434-977-7550, ext. 356
800-238-3233
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Last updated: Fri, March 14 2008
