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Collaboration is a high-leverage practice that contributes to success for students with disabilities. (McLeskey, J., et al., 2017 High-leverage practices in special education. Arlington, VA: Council for Exceptional Children & CEEDAR Center). What does that look like in Kansas classrooms? Moll...

 Shaping is a procedure used to reinforce successive approximations of a new (target) behavior in a person’s repertoire through differential reinforcement.  Approximation means a behavior that resembles the target behavior.  Successive approximations are steps toward the target behavior.  If a be...

Description: Transition Planning for Individuals with ASD is a four-part webinar series. In part 2: Targeting Skill for Adult Independence, Dr. Peter Gerhardt discuss:  The principles of positive reinforcement The priorities of instruction in transition programming (work/social/navigat...

An Equivalence Class is a group of stimuli that evoke the same behavior.  Learning a behavior in the presence of a stimulus that is a member of a stimulus class should generalize to other members in the stimulus class.  Stimulus relations include reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity.  Stimulus...

The Kansas Math Proficiency Project ensures that every math teacher in Kansas has a strong understanding of research-based teaching strategies as well as a deep understanding of math content. We begin with an ingrained belief that all students can learn mathematics followed by a coherent understa...