Redefining Student Accountability

The time has come to separate academic achievement from student behavior attributes. Author and trusted assessment expert Tom Schimmer shares a three-tiered framework and trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching responsibility, nurturing student accountability, and addressing student behavior in a way that teaches students the life skills they need to thrive in the classroom and in the larger world.

This book will help K–12 teachers and administrators:

Learn how to create trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching the skills of responsibility to students
Discover how to improve students’ social competence through a process of goal-setting, self-monitoring, and self-reflection
Gain an understanding of how the PLC at Work® and RTI at Work™ processes, as well as strong assessment practices, can redefine student accountability in the classroom
Understand how reinforcement works and how to use it to benefit students
Explore why behavior should be separated from grades and how to effectively assess and report on behavior

Contents:

Introduction: Their Worlds are Real!

Chapter 1: Redefining Student Accountability within the Assessment context

Chapter 2: Redefining Student Accountability within the PLC at Work context

Chapter 3: Redefining Student Accountability within the RTI context

Chapter 4: Teaching and Reinforcing Student Accountability

Chapter 5: Correcting and Supporting Student Accountability

Chapter 6: Prioritizing and Reporting Student Accountability

Chapter 7: Self-Regulating Student Accountability

Afterword