Organizational Drivers and Staff Competency to Build Specialized Programs for Complex Students

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Poster

This course includes the presented research poster and supporting articles as PDFs.

Advanced

In-depth analysis and sophisticated strategies for those with strong foundational knowledge.

No CEUs

This is a series of downloadable resources, ineligible for continuing education credit.
Conference Series
This study draws on ongoing formative evaluation data focused on building intensive programming across seven districts. Each staff member’s recurring consultative program development benchmarking was coded to reflect an itemized and overall within-subject comparison. To assess organizational context, implementation checklists for all three organizational drivers were completed at district, building, and special education department levels, yielding multilevel profiles of organizational support surrounding each staff member. Analyses use integrative data analysis and systems science. Case studies of selected staff are developed to create practice narratives and visual systems stories that integrate benchmarking patterns with organizational driver configurations.

What will I learn?

Objectives

Participation

 Audience

This study examines how multilevel organizational implementation drivers relate to staff benchmarking trajectories in the development of local specialized programs for students with complex academic, behavioral, and mental health needs.
  How are staff benchmarking trajectories associated with the presence or absence of organizational drivers across system levels?
   Which organizational driver configurations appear most consistently connected to staff progression, regression, or maintenance?
   How can aggregated systems stories visually represent the relationship between staff progress and multilevel organizational support?
This learning opportunity is relevant for:
       Behavior Analysts
       Building Administrators
       District Administrators
   self-guided learning
  no video learning
   no learning check
   no certificate of completion

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Who am I learning from?

Heather Volchko

Heather Volchko is a school-based consultant and program evaluator specializing in emotional and behavioral disorders, contextual behavior analysis, organizational behavior management, and leadership psychology. She has been a coordinator, teacher, and paraprofessional in therapeutic, alternative, self-contained, resource, and correctional settings. Outside of her professional work, she has worked abroad with various international education organizations as well as stateside with organizations facilitating upward mobility. Heather is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with her Bachelors in Special Education, Masters in Educational Psychology, and is currently pursuing her doctorate.

Eryn Van Acker, PhD

Eryn Van Acker is a school-based academic and behavioral consultant specializing in MTSS, academic skill acquisition, reinforcement strategies, social skills programming, FBAs/BIPs, and local systematic crisis response development including monitoring and observation. She has been a general education teacher, special education teacher, academic and behavioral education specialist, and researcher in resource, inclusion, co-taught, and higher education settings. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys dog behavior training and sports with her two Border Collies. Eryn is an educational consultant with her Bachelors in Elementary Education, Masters in Special Education, Doctorate in Special Education, and is pursuing her BCBA certification.

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