Resiliency is the tenth in our twelve-part series on our Personal Responsibility Map®, which is a core assessment in our Personal Responsibility—Achieving Academic and Career Goals™  program. Resiliency is the ability to work through activities and cause bottom-line results to happen. Resiliency to many is the ability to bounce back [...]
The focus of this blog is on the use of our Personal Responsibility Map® and skill intervention system in helping at-risk students to identify and develop key emotional intelligence skills for success in school and life. Personal Responsibility—Achieving Academic and Career Goals™ is a research-based assessment and skill intervention system [...]
The US Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced that only two out of ten individuals with a disability are able to find and keep a job. I ask myself, “Why is this?” This simple question has no simple answer. There are many reasons that can cause a 20% employment rate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Time Management is the seventh skill on our Success Profiler social/emotional pyramid. Time management is making sure that your actions help you to finish things you have to do. The biggest task facing most of us today is to improve productivity. This is true for your students as well. Learning [...]
The sixth step in our Success Profiler social/emotional pyramid is Decision Making. It is important to note that decision making is a process that follows problem solving. Decision making is using problem solving skills to discover a course of action that will most likely achieve the results you want. Decision [...]
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). MTSS is the combination of Response To Intervention or RTI with Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports or [...]