Implementation of WhyTry
Assessing the Impact of WhyTry at Your Site
Action Plan Samples
Action Plan Template
Alignment of WhyTry Lessons to American School Counselor Association National Standards
Alignment to the Developmental Assets
Measurement Tools:
WhyTry Fidelity Checklist, Directions and Measurement Tools
Pre and Post for Elementary Students
Pre and Post Secondary Students
Other Recommended Assessments:
- Conners' Rating Scales-Revised (CRS-R)
- The BASC-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS)
- Children’s Hope Scale (CHS) Measure of Hope and Positive thinking. Author(s): Snyder, C. R., Hoza, B., Pelham, W. E., Rapoff, J., Ware, L., Danovsky, M., Highberger, L., Rubinstein, H., & Stahl, K.
Where Can I Find Research on WhyTry?
WhyTry Inc. is committed to on-going research into the efficacy of the WhyTry Program, and to applying that research to the development and enhancement of the Program. WhyTry encourages all professionals using the Program to track their outcomes and share their results here and in professional publications.
Go to our Research Page for a synopsis of current research
RTI, PBiS, and the ASCA National Model as Best Practices
WhyTry fully supports the use of a data driven program to help our youth achieve academically, socially and emotionally. RTI, PBiS, and the ASCA National Model are recommended frameworks for implementing WhyTry as an intervention tool. WhyTry can be used for all three intervention tier levels. Each site is recommended to assess the needs of their population, assets and resources. An implementation and assessment plan then should be crafted.
Response to intervention integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support: Improving student academic and behavior outcomes is about ensuring all students have access to the most effective and accurately implemented instructional and behavioral practices and interventions possible. School-Wide Postive Behavioral Support provides an operational framework for achieving these outcomes. More importantly, SWPBS is NOT a curriculum, intervention, or practice, but IS a decision making framework that guides selection, integration, and implementation of the best evidence-based academic and behavioral practices for improving important academic and behavior outcomes for all students.
Tier One: WhyTry can be implemented as a school wide curriculum; used as a consistent language for discipline, expectations, and incentives Tier Two: Used often as targeted group intervention, class, or after school program. Available in general education settings. Tier Three: Specialized Individualized Systems for Students with High-Risk Behavior.
ASCA National Model is a framework for data driven school counseling programs to establish the school counseling program as an integral component of the academic mission of the school, ensure every student has equitable access to the school counseling program, identify and deliver the knowledge and skills all students should acquire, and ensure that the school counseling program is comprehensive in design and is delivered systematically to all students.
Download 2010 ASCA National Conference Handout Best Practices with RTI/PBiS/National Model samples presented by Christian Moore and Karyn Holt
Differentiated instruction involves providing students with different avenues to acquiring content; to processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and to developing teaching materials so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively, regardless of differences in ability. WhyTry utilizes a multi-sensory approach to teach social skills and motivate. Brain research supports that utilizing music, kinesthetic activity, personal
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Thank you to all of those who are working towards WhyTry's work on showing evidence-based outcomes. This is all for the youth you impact and making positive changes in their lives!
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