PRIORITY GOALS

1. Improved Academic Competence and School Success for All Children
Advocacy & Public Policy / Goal 1.2.A: Advocate for universal early prevention and intervention programs that emphasize language, cognitive, and social-emotional development and are placed in the context of ethnicity, SES, gender, and language.
Practice / Goal 1.4.C: Ensure that assessment practices of school psychologists are empirically-linked to strategies to improve academic performance, and that those assessment practices account for the influence of ethnicity, SES, gender, and language on learning outcomes.
In-service Training / Goal 1.5.A: Develop and implement in-service training for school psychologists related to universal early prevention and intervention programs.
2. Improved Social-Emotional Functioning for All Children
Advocacy & Public Policy / Goal 2.2.B: Promote the availability of comprehensive range of services, from supportive and inclusive placements through interim alternative placements, for students with severe emotional and behavioral disorders.
Collaboration & Communication / Goal 2.3.C: Educate all stakeholders about the importance of social-emotional competence for children.
Practice / Goal 2.4.B: Ensure that school psychologists develop a systematic plan in all schools to reduce social/emotional barriers to learning.
3. Enhanced family-school partnerships and parental involvement in schools
Research & Knowledge Base / Goal 3.1.A: Identify evidence-based models of effective family-school partnerships.
Practice / Goal 3.4.A: Ensure that school psychologists engage in activities to Change the culture of schooling to ensure that families are integral partners in the educational process of children.
Pre-service Training / Goal 3.6.A: Change pre-service education and training of school psychologist candidates to infuse a focus on families as integral partners in the educational process.
4. More effective education and instruction for all learners
Research & Knowledge Base / Goal 4.1.A: Identify key components of effective instruction of all learners, including evidence- based approaches to prevention and early intervention for learning problems.
In-service Training / Goal 3.5.A: Provide in-service training for school psychologists in the use of a data-based problem solving model to implement evidence-based instruction and interventions.
In-service Training / Goal 3.5.B: Implement a national pre-service and in-service training initiative for school psychologists regarding effective instruction.
5. Increased child and family services in schools that promote health and mental health and are integrated with community services
Practice / Goal 3.4.B: Define and promote population-based service delivery in schools and school psychology.
In-service Training / Goal 3.5.A: Prepare current practitioners to implement a public health model.
Pre-service Training / Goal 3.6.A: Prepare future practitioners to implement a public health model.