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District social worker says behavior support classrooms returning most students to school; district expanding middle‑school pilot
Summary
Jennifer Shepherd, a district social worker, told the board the district's critical behavior support program has grown from one classroom to a multi‑site model with a reported 75–100% improvement in target behaviors for many students and plans to pilot middle‑school classrooms.
Jennifer Shepherd, a social worker with the Washington County School District, told the board Oct. 13 that a district-run critical behavior support program has expanded and is returning students with high behavioral needs to their home schools.
"None of us believe there's such thing as a bad kid. It's just kids missing skills," Shepherd said while describing the program's approach of targeted skill teaching, staff coaching, and family and school reintegration. Shepherd said the original elementary classroom at Hurricane Elementary grew…
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