| Program Description | Higher Ground comprehensive day time services work along side teachers, parents, schools, and the professionals who serve them providing social/emotional strategies that increase a child’s ability to remain on task in the classroom. Strategies equip teachers with practical tools to manage behavior. HG Strong Behavior Teacher Coaching increases the capacities of the adults who work with Urban Children of Color.
Higher Ground provides the following comprehensive services that strengthen the school day experiences for children and adults.
In-Class Support: a targeted intervention in the classroom and school setting helping students remain on task during some of the most important academic times of the day. Constant monitoring and regulation of participant behavior is standard operating procedure and serves as an effective tool for maintain appropriate behaviors. In class support also provides schools/teachers with intervention mentors that model and coach teachers increasing opportunities to reach every child while working along side educators capturing those teachable moments.
Teacher Coaching: Teachers receive tools to appropriately interpret specific behaviors and what they are trying to say. Higher Ground tools manage the most challenging children in the classroom and provide moral support for teachers when things look dim. |