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McComb
School District, Mississippi
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was previously found that student behavior is often an impediment
to effective teaching. The daily struggle by students with such
challenges as poverty, anger, and aggression is often at odds with
the goal of improving student performance in the classroom. As a
result of these issues, offering behavioral supports for students
was identified by an internal district needs assessment three years
prior to the district's partnership with EMSTAC.
As
part of McComb's identification of behavioral supports as a primary
need, the Linking Agent, in his role as a behavioral specialist,
was a member of a group of Professionals (which include the School
Nurse, Asst. Principal, Parent and Student Representive, Reading
Specialist, Interventionist, Counselor and School Psychomatrist)
that met and worked on developing and implementing the Alternative
Classroom. The program provides intensive services to youngsters
with behavioral challenges for students exhibiting consistent behavioral
problems. This Alternative Classroom model has its own written procedures
for teachers and was developed by the LA on the basis of his review
of several research-based behavioral interventions. The Alternative
Classroom intervention is available to all teachers at the K-2 school,
and both the LA and the principal are attempting to implement the
model at the grades 3-6 school that their students feed into.
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