You’re reading your child’s IEP, evaluation report, or behavior plan and suddenly you’re stuck on a phrase that feels ...

As January looms, so does the adage “New Year, New You.” Despite all good intentions, the adage's call to action seldom lasts beyond a few weeks. While statistics vary, the most common resolutions ...

School leaders can follow these guidelines to support teachers in dealing with challenging behaviors and ensure that meetings ...

However big or small, goals motivate everyone in virtually everything they do. A goal may be as simple as "buy milk" or as complex as "develop a sustainable 10-year business plan." In either case, you ...

Behaviors have intentional goals—what we plan or try to do—and tacit goals—what we implicitly try to do. Tacit goals are automatic behavioral impulses, based on autopilot judgments. Intentional and ...

Most parents want their kids to be successful and happy. But these vague goals lead to daily battles. Needs-based parenting ...

To begin a Positive Behavior Interventions and Support program, schools start with five goals: maximizing the classroom’s physical space, teacher engagement with students, and explanations and use of ...

Can small changes to your calendar have big effects on your behavior? One of the biggest challenges behavioral scientists are tackling these days is helping us balance short-term demands with ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a specific brain region that underlies “goal-directed behavior”—that is, when we consciously do something with a particular goal in mind, say ...