The Edgewood Behavior Coach teaches children social skills including impulse control, anger management, building self-esteem and teaching empathy through group interaction and, when needed, individual coaching. The coach also completes a Functional Behavior Assessments with school staff and uses this information to design individualized behavior plans in collaboration with teachers. Once a plan is in place, the coach supports teachers in implementing the plan.
The behavior coach often works with the Edgewood Teacher Trainer in supporting students in the classroom. Guidelines for the behavior coach include:
- Provide teachers with the reasons why they hold they keys to much of the behavioral changes in their classroom.
- Provide teachers with information about behavior management theory that will help to support the first goal, to understand the cause and effect of behavior.
- Give concrete strategies that are effective and easy to use that will impact behavior in their classrooms
Provide opportunities to learn and practice strategies with a group of their peers and express concerns about challenges.
- Provide opportunities for teachers to be observed teaching and receive feedback about what is working/not working and why.
- Provide opportunities for teachers to explore in a one-on-one format issues of resistance and work through struggles with change.
Resources for the Behavior Coach:
Second Step: A Violence Prevention Program
Positive Behavior Interventions & Strategies
Teacher’s Encyclopedia of Behavior Management: 100 Problems/500 Plans
Interventions 2nd Edition: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students
Managing the Cycle of Acting-Out Behavior in the Classroom
location
Edgewood's Behavior Coach currently works in three schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. They are:
Other locations from previous years include:
Charles Drew Elementary, Treasure Island Elementary, Flynn Elementary, Paul Revere Elementary, Hillcrest Elementary, Guadalupe Elementary, Cobb Elementary, Bessie Carmichael Elementary.
Who It Helps
The Edgewood Behavior Coach works individually with students, their teacher, and often with the parents. Our goal is to help the child succeed in school while giving teachers and parents new tools and skills for working with their child in class or in the home.
partners and funders
Edgewood partners with San Francisco Unified School District and accesses private funds to allow us to offer low-cost Teacher Training to schools.
key facts
For the Edgewood Behavior Coach to be successful, he or she will:
- Guide teachers through the process of thorough assessment of behavior, and help them understand how to analyze chronic behavior challenges.
- Assist teachers in selecting effective intervention strategies based on student strengths and abilities.
- Build collaboration with other school staff on the use of intervention plan.
- Model intervention strategies and to work with teacher to learn and practice intervention strategies.
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