Student Success Assignment

Resource Assignment: Positive Approach to Student Success
Positive Approach to Student Success also known as PASS, is a program James Poole and Dr. Hope Caperton-Brown designed for students identified with behavioral or emotional disorders. The program incorporates a non-level based, individualized approach, that provides explicit teaching of behavioral expectations in mainstream settings. PASS has four phases: Preplacement, Orientation, Inclusion and Maintenance, and Aftercare.
The Preplacement phase are interventions that were implemented prior to PASS. These interventions are less intensive such as a Behavior Intervention Plan. Adequate time to implement a BIP needs to be accounted for to ensure the student is unresponsive to the intervention prior to placing the student in PASS. The next phase is Orientation, which is brief, individualized and focuses on instruction. During orientation, a student is placed in the PASS classroom. A PASS specialist teaches the PASS classroom expectations, PASS monitoring and reinforcement systems, social skills targeted for the student and academic work.
The third phase is Inclusion and Maintenance.
Hope Caperton-Brown and James Poole. The book is affordable; the pricing is $75. The book discusses the PASS program and implementation. The book includes a companion CD that includes the following: PASS Tracker application (Excel spreadsheet) onsite, Reproducible forms, Samples of student portfolios, T-Charts, and behavior analysis, Materials for use in training staff in PASS procedures. The designers of the PASS program offer onsite and offsite consultation which is not as cost effective as the book. Consultation is encouraged to ensure the PASS program is implemented correctly. The offsite consultation in the form of video chat rates are as followed: $300 hourly, $750 half day and $1,500 full