YES: Teachers Should Help Screen Students for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Challenges
NO: That’s NOT Where the Screening Process Ends
In the face of schools training teachers to screen and recognize the “early warning” indicators of students’ social-emotional and mental health problems, this Blog discusses the ten necessary screening-to-service practices that all schools should use, in a multiple-gating process, to ensure that valid student problems are identified, analyzed, and then addressed with high probability of success services, supports, strategies, and interventions.