Collaborative Relationships
Recommended Practice: Draw on relationships with professional colleagues and students' families for continued guidance and support.
- Overview & Tools: Video overviews and professional development materials
- Learn What Works: Expert interviews about collaborative relationships
- See How It Works: Videos and sample materials from schools
Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom Through Collaborative Relationships
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Learn how to use collaborative relationships for a more effective implementation of strategies to reduce problem behavior. Three types of collaboration are discussed: teacher teaming, expert...
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Overview
The Importance of Teachers, Specialists, and Parents Working Together to Improve Behavior
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Hear Dr. Krista Kutash describe how teachers can learn about the importance of collaborative relationships. These relationships can help teachers as they work towards reducing behavior problems in...
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Expert Interview
Parent Workshop: Developing Effective Guidelines
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This sample activity is part of one parent workshop session to help parents work with their children on good behavior skills at home. As part of this activity, the workshop instructors go through...
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School Example
Creating Strong Relationships Through Parent Workshops
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The Parent Coordinator at P.S. 24 describes how she creates strong, trusting relationships with families through workshops dealing with topics and issues that are important to parents. Trust is a...
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School Example
It Takes a Village to Raise a Socially and Emotionally Competent Child
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Hear how Pinnacle School 35 implements several programs that work together to reduce behavior problems schoolwide. Programs include a social-emotional learning curriculum, an after-school program,...
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School Example
Everyone Becomes Involved
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View this video about how families attend informal, interactive workshops aimed at teaching parents how to work with their children to improve behavior. Parents learn about topics such as refusal...
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School Example
A System for Teacher Collaboration to Reduce Behavior Problems
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Harmony Hills Elementary implements the Collaborative Action Process for teachers to work collaboratively to address behavior problems. This process gives teachers a step-by-step guide to dealing...
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School Example
Levels of Parental Involvement
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Parent involvement is categorized into five major areas on this worksheet; within each category are a number of steps parents can take. This handout helps school staff describe and clarify parental...
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Sample Material
Family Meeting Agenda: Teaching Refusal Skills
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This agenda, taken from theGuiding Good Choices Parent Guide, outlines steps that families can take to teach their children refusal skills during family meetings. Refusal skills help children...
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Sample Material
Family Workshop: Refusal Skills
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The Family Support Coordinator at Everett Area Elementary School uses this presentation to facilitate a family workshop on refusal skills. Refusal skills help children identify and have answers...
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Sample Material
Collaborative Action Process (CAP)
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This document describes the schoolwide program at Harmony Hills called the Collaborative Action Process (CAP). The program is designed to build the capacity of general education teachers in...
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Sample Material
Principal Self-Reflection: Collaborating With Experts
Reducing Behavior Problems > Collaborative Relationships > Overview & Tools
This tool provides a checklist for principals to reflect on current practice and to identify improvement actions in order to effectively build on collaboration with behavior experts.
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Tool
