Education Services
The Girls and Boys Town Education Model

After experiencing 90 years of tremendous success with children struggling to succeed at school, Boys Town now offers the secret to that success to school systems across the country. The Training Evaluation and Certification Center at Boys Town developed the Boys Town Education Model for schools that are interested in training their staff to duplicate the program in their districts.

The Boys Town Education Model (BTEM) was developed in 1979 and is an extension of the Boys Town Family Home Program (Coughlin & Shanahan, 1986) and the Teaching Family Model (Phillips, Phillips, Fixsen & Wolf, 1973). The BTEM has been adapted to train classroom teachers, building administrators, and support staff to implement three critical elements:

• A school-wide social skills curriculum,
• An administrative intervention process, and
• A proactive classroom behavior management approach.

These three critical elements contribute to a system-wide approach that fosters respectful and caring staff/student interactions by fundamentally changing the way schools address discipline and deal with student behavior.

Collaborative services are designed to assist school staff as they develop or revise a comprehensive school plan for improving discipline and teaching student responsibility.  BTEM training professionals work directly with staff through workshops and consultation and assist schools with establishing quality-learning communities.

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