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Module 1: The Development and Outcomes of Youth with Emotional Disturbance (Adaptation) This module will focus on early adolescent development and youth outcomes related to the likelihood of school failure, school dropout, and poor post-secondary outcomes, how to achieve positive outcomes and experience educational success, and how to use information about youth risk and positive development to increase the likelihood of immediate school success as well as long-term outcomes.

Module 2: Early Warning Systems This module will examine early warning-signs of risk for school dropout and consider ways that educators can use this data to promote positive developmental pathways and outcomes for students with emotional behavior disturbance.

Module 4: Tiered Systems of Adapted Supports (TSAS) This content offers an overview of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS), the advantages and disadvantages to this framework, and proposes a tiered system of adapted support (TSAS) to be implemented as a complementary approach.

Module 5: Using Academic Data and Academic Support Interventions This module will review the importance of timely review of student academic data to determine the areas of strength or weakness across knowledge and skills. It will communicate the value in choosing aligned instructional strategies or interventions based on the data, to evidence student success and viable use of these skills and concepts in the future.

Module 6: Using Attendance and Attendance Support Interventions Learn how attendance is tied into school performance, academic success, and graduation rates and how to use this critical data point as an indicator to assess a risk of future drop out.

Module 7: Using School Suspension Data and Interventions to Reduce Student Suspensions Review the benefits of basic classroom management, alternatives to suspension and expulsion, the benefits of a behavioral multi-tiered behavioral system of support framework in schools and test your understanding through presented scenarios.

Module 8: Collecting and Using Student Adjustment Data School adjustment is adapting to the role of student and aspects of the school environment. Failure to adjust can lead to mental health issues, school refusal, or dropout. Learn how schools can support student adjustment to stay on track for graduation, as well as college and career ready.

Module 9: The Role of the Intervention Specialist Directed consultation is a process used to support teachers as they integrate evidence-based practices into everyday activities. Intervention specialists typically take the lead role in the directed consultation process. The role could be anyone in the school, such as teachers, guidance counselors, and school psychologists. In some ways the title of the person is not relevant. What is relevant to this role is the skill set that the intervention specialist possesses.

Module 1: Framework of the Early Warning System Module 1 provides an overview of the Framework of the Early Warning System (EWS). A Word document is provided which provides a graphic of the EWS and the three components: attendance data, behavioral data, and academic data. The narrative description begins with the background on the component, then details from where the data originates, how it is collected, how schools might use the data, and how data are reported to the state. Part 1: An Overview of the EWS Part 2: Attendance Data Part 3: Behavioral Data Part 4: Academic Data

Module 1: Framework of the Early Warning System Module 1 provides an overview of the Framework of the Early Warning System (EWS). A Word document is provided which provides a graphic of the EWS and the three components: attendance data, behavioral data, and academic data. The narrative description begins with the background on the component, then details from where the data originates, how it is collected, how schools might use the data, and how data are reported to the state. Part 1: An Overview of the EWS Part 2: Attendance Data Part 3: Behavioral Data Part 4: Academic Data