Web Exercises

The Education Trust is a national non-profit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels, particularly for students of color and low-income students.
  • Select Who We Are, then About Us.  How does the Education Trust carry out its mission?
  • Select What We Do, then Advocacy and Legislative Affairs, then Strong Teachers and Leaders.  What are some recent policy actions of the Education Trust?
  • Select Our Resources, then Presentations.  Choose one of the presentations, and describe how you might use it as an advocate.    
 
Stopbullying.gov is a federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.  Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.
  • Select What is Bullying, then Definition.  What are the three types of bullying?  What are two sources of federally collected data on youth bullying?
  • Select What You Can Do, then Community, then Federal and Non-Federal Resources.  Do a search on your own to find a website to nominate as an addition to StopBullying.gov’s resource inventory, and submit the nomination.  Which website did you nominate?
  • Select Respond to Bullying, then Be More Than A Bystander.  Watch the video “Why This Matters.”  Why is it important for parents to be involved?   
 
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs.
  • For RTI implementation to work well, what are the essential components that must be implemented with fidelity?
  • How do the three tiers of RTI align with the social work framework of macro, mezzo, and micro?
  • Select Behavior Supports, then read Part 2: Universal Supports.  What are some of the key features of the practices within a core program?  How should behavior errors be corrected in this system?