Grades:
1-12
FOCUS AREA:
Social skills/relationship building
Emotional regulation
Behavior management
Executive functioning
Depression/Anxiety
Coping
Attendance
ABOUT:
Develop listening and communication skills. Learn problem-solving strategies. Increase student’s confidence. Improve decision-making skills. Gain support through challenges and build relations. Feel more connected at school. Empathize, accept and support others. Gain hope and tools to navigate successfully in all areas of life.
HOW TO:
Sharing groups of peers facing similar challenges include 6-10 students, run for 8 weeks and take about 60 min per session. Two trained adults must facilitate the group together.
Grades:
K-12
FOCUS AREA:
Social skills/relationship building
Emotional regulation
Behavior management
Executive functioning
Motivation/ Participation
Coping
Aggression
Poor academic performance
Attendance
ABOUT:
Improves student accountability, increases structure. Improves student behavior and academics when other interventions have failed. Provides feedback and adult support on a daily basis. Improves and establishes daily home/school communication and collaboration. Improves student organization, motivation, incentive, and reward. Helps students to self-monitor and correct. Internalizes success and accomplishment of goals. Students get involved and excited about the program, enjoying the structure, support, and incentives of the intervention. Leads to maintenance free responsible behaviors, habits, and effort.
HOW TO:
The CICO intervention, from the book Responding to Problem Behavior in Schools, 2nd Ed: The Behavior Education Program 1, is a highly effective research based intervention and can be changed and adapted to suit any school or situation. The program consists of students daily checking in with an adult at the start of school to retrieve a goal sheet and encouragement, teachers provide feedback on the sheet throughout the day, students check out at the end of the day with an adult, and the student takes the sheet home to be signed, returning it the following morning at check in