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 studentsDiscover how to improve students social competence through a process of goal-setting, self-monitoring, and self-reflectionGain 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 classroomUnderstand how reinforcement works and how to use it to benefit studentsExplore why behavior should be separated from grades and how to effectively assess and report on behaviorContents:Introduction: Their Worlds are Real!Chapter 1: Redefining Student Accountability within the Assessment contextChapter 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 AccountabilityChapter 5: Correcting and Supporting Student AccountabilityChapter 6: Prioritizing and Reporting Student AccountabilityChapter 7: Self-Regulating Student AccountabilityAfterword