Student retention is a primary concern for all post-secondary institutions. In a study conducted by the Research Department of the Minnesota House of Representatives on community college retention, 55% of new, entering students drop out of college by their second year of enrollment (Finc & Lehnertz, 1991). To address this [...]
A computer is made up of two main components: Hardware and software. Both are necessary for the computer to operate successfully. Without hardware your computer would not exist and software would have nothing to run on, and without software, you would simply have a machine, incapable of performing any kind of [...]
Supportive Environment is the amount to which friends, family, teachers and others around us value high achievement and positively encourage people in their goals. A supportive environment is a critical factor in the MTSS process. Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or MTSS, is a term used to describe an evidence-based model [...]
Labor Stats for Persons with Disabilities The U. S. Department of Labor recently released data on two important employment trends for persons with disabilities. Both of these statistics are troubling and to truly put this into terms that will help you understand, we wanted to take a visual approach. You [...]
The focus of this blog is on Achievement Drive, the fourth scale of twelve in our Personal Responsibility Map, which is the core assessment in our Personal Responsibility—Achieving Academic and Career Goals program. Achievement Drive is the level of desire, effort and commitment given to individual goals. Let’s take a [...]
Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or MTSS, is a term used to describe an evidence-based model of schooling that uses data-based problem solving to integrate academic and behavioral instruction and intervention (Florida’s MTSS Project). This definition brings together the worlds of academic instruction and behavioral intervention. The MTSS movement is catching [...]
Self –Efficacy is your view of possibilities, or the extent to which your view your goals as within your ability to achieve, given your existing knowledge and skills. It is the second scale in our Personal Skills Map. Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or MTSS, is a term used to describe [...]
Goal setting is the first and probably the most important scale in our Personal Responsibility–Achieving Academic and Career Goals Personal Responsibility Map. By definition, a goal is an object or end that one strives to attain. A goal is an end toward which one directs some effort. Goal setting is [...]
With increased public awareness of bullying in our communities, schools and workplaces, there has been a common response to this problem—How can we stop the bully? While this is a logical response, it is also a one-sided response that in most cases increases rather than decreases the number of bullying [...]
Academic and Career Goal Setting & MTSS Did you ever ask yourself this question: Why doesn’t Johnny learn? If you asked Johnny why he doesn’t seem interested in learning, he might respond by saying, “What for? Give me a good reason or I’m out of here.” Well, now you’ve done [...]