Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a term that describes the proactive approach of establishing behavioral supports so that students can achieve social, emotional, and academic success. This definition blends the worlds of behavior intervention and academic instruction. Much like a computer requires both hardware and software to function, [...]
What is a Supportive Environment? Supportive environment is one of the twelve scales in our Personal Responsibility Map, which is the core assessment in our academic and career goals program. Supportive Environment describes the amount to which friends, family, peers, and others in one's life value high achievement, and positively [...]
What is Achievement Drive? Achievement Drive is the fourth scale of our Personal Responsibility Map, which is the core assessment in our Personal Responsibility program which focuses on academic and career goals achievement. You may be asking, what exactly is Achievement Drive? Achievement Drive is the level of desire, effort, [...]
What is Values Congruence? The third scale measured by our Personal Responsibility Map, (our core assessment for achieving academic and career goals), is Values Congruence. A value is a belief about what is good, just, and beautiful. Values influence people's ways of behaving and how they respond to situations. Values [...]
Wishes versus Goals Goal setting is the first, and probably the most important, scale measured by our Personal Responsibility Map. In order to learn how to set and achieve goals, it is helpful to understand the difference between goals and dreams or wishes. By definition, a goal is an object [...]
A Reason to Learn Have you ever wondered why a student has a difficult time learning? If you asked the student why he or she doesn’t seem interested in learning, the response might be, “What’s the point? Give me a good reason for learning or I’m out of here”. If [...]