Current Projects

This project will iteratively develop and pilot a brief professional development training (EMR) to enhance teachers' skills in establishing, maintaining, and restoring relationships with high school students, particularly those from marginalized racial/ethnic groups.

Resources:

• Elementary School evaluation paper (Cook et al., 2018)

• Middle School evaluation paper (Duong et al., 2018)

• High School development paper (Duong et al., 2020)

• High School pilot evaluation paper (Gaias et al., 2020)

• High School pilot report to schools

• High School RCT report to schools

• Presentation slides

Current Status:

• Analyzing results and disseminating findings from a six-school randomized control trial of an equity-explicit version of EMR for ninth grade teachers. (Funded by IES R305A170458)

This project aims to develop an assessment-as-intervention process for schools to examine their current practices that contribute to discipline disproportionality and select contextually-relevent evidence-based practices to reduce disproportionality.

Resources:

• The DDAS Assessment-to-Intervention Suite of Tools

• Presentation at Advancing School Mental Health Conference 2020 Annual Conference (in collaboration with Tara Gill, Caryn Curry, Mike Pullmann, and Dana Cunningham)

Current Status:

• Grant under review to validate DDAS Program Assessment