Peers as Change Agents
Renee O. Hawkins, Mary Katherine Gerrard, Christa L. Newman, and Hannah McIntire
in Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
This chapter details the many advantages of utilizing peers as change agents in behavioral interventions, including being a readily available and free resource, increasing opportunities to ...
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Peer-Mediated Writing Interventions
Christine K. Malecki and Samantha Coyle
in Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
A variety of writing interventions task peers with assisting students with planning and revising written text, including providing feedback on other students’ writing. This chapter ...
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A New Conceptualization of Peer-Mediated Interventions
Tai A. Collins and Renee O. Hawkins
in Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
This introductory chapter presents an updated and comprehensive conceptualization of peer-mediated interventions based on contemporary research utilizing peers as change agents in schools. ...
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Understanding Words and Word Learning: Putting Research on Vocabulary into Classroom Practice
William Nagy
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter discusses research on vocabulary, understanding words, and word learning. It outlines what research tells us about effective instruction is organized interms of five key ...
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Peer Support Interventions in Inclusive Classrooms
Erik W. Carter
in Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
Supporting students with severe disabilities to access the myriad social and learning opportunities that exist within inclusive classrooms can be a challenge. Peer support arrangements are ...
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Peer-Mediated Academic Interventions
Shobana Musti-Rao and Michele M. Nobel
in Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
Peer-mediated academic interventions (PMAIs) have a robust evidence base that support their use in classrooms to improve a variety of academic behaviors. In this chapter, we define PMAIs, ...
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Introduction: Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
Sylvia Rosenfield and Virginia Berninger
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter presents an introduction to the title as a whole. It describes evidence-based practice, the research to practice gap, implementation, the importance of the academic domain, and ...
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Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
Tai A. Collins and Renee Oliver Hawkins (eds)
This volume includes a variety of intervention strategies utilizing peers as change agents in school-based interventions. The book presents an updated conceptualization of peer-mediated ...
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Consultee-Centered Consultation as a Vehicle for Knowledge Diffusion and Utilization
Steve Knotek, Andrea Sauer-Lee, and Barbara Lowe-Greenlee
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter explores how consultee-centeredconsultation (CCC) can facilitate the diffusion and use of innovations ineducation. The chapter begins with a description ofCCC and how it can be ...
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The Prevention Science Perspective: Early Intervention Research on Literacy, Mathematics, and Social Competence
Maureen Hoskyn
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter presents an overview of findings from selected studies ofearly learning that have potential to facilitate learning and social developmentof young children before school entry. ...
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A Focus on the Individual: Single-Subject Evaluations of Response to Intervention
Owen R. White
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter begins with a brief overview of the most generally recommendedapproach to response to intervention (RTI) evaluations, then seeks to explain the elements of pupil performanceand ...
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Issues and Controversies
Monnica T. Williams
in Managing Microaggressions: Addressing Everyday Racism in Therapeutic Spaces
Abstract: Are microaggressions really just people being too sensitive? Not everyone agrees that microaggressions are a problem, and some view the increased social dialogue surrounding the ...
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Research-Based Oral Language Intervention Routes to the Academic Language of Literacy: Finding the Right Road
Elaine R. Silliman and Cheryl M. Scott
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
The purpose of this chapter is to acquaint other professionals with anunderstanding of oral language impairment, its implications for literacylearning, and the nature of the evidence base ...
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Application of Program Evaluation Tools for Large-Scale Research Implementation
Sam Stringfield
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter presents an exploration of methods for providing the informationthat decision makers need. The chapter presents general and specificconcerns related to large-scale research and ...
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Redesigning Teacher Growth and Evaluation in a Large Urban School District
Paul Robb and Hilary Rosenfield
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter describes the context of the reform and identifies the designcomponents (goals, tools, and targets) as well as the challenges-real and perceived-that the participants ...
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From Health/Medical Analogies to Helping Struggling Middle School Readers: Issues in Applying Research to Practice
John Sabatini
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter discusses the transfer of scientific research and evidence-basedpractices to application settings. It explores causal inferences that stem from experimental designs and models ...
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Statewide Scaling Up of Progress Monitoring Practices
Edward S. Shapiro
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter explores the statewide scaling up of progress monitoring practices. It outlines types of progress monitoring, the plan for statewide implementation of progress monitoring, ...
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Implementation of Instructional Consultation Teams: An Analysis of a School-University Partnership
Deborah Nelson, Kathy Aux, Michael T. Neall, and Todd A. Gravois
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter details a partnership between universityand school district professionals. The purpose of this partnership was toimplement and research a particular innovation, Instructional ...
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Role of Teacher Practices and Characteristics in Implementing Research in Preschool and Early Childhood Classrooms
E. Todd Brown, Victoria J. Molfese, and Mary C. Wagner
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
The purpose of this chapter is to describe changes in early childhoodeducation that have led to the development of the early childhood learningstandards which most states have now ...
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Sharing Research Knowledge with Teachers: The Story of
Barbara Wise, Laura Rogan, and Luann Sessions
in Implementing Evidence-Based Academic Interventions in School Settings
This chapter discusses the research background for linguistic remedies (LR), and includesits core pedagogical concepts. It describes LR’s basic program and supportsfor pacing, organization, ...
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