The Department of Psychology and Counseling is excited to announce a new partnership between North Little Rock Middle School (6th grade building) and the UCA School Psychology program. This partnership is led by Drs. Simon and Martens (UCA), Mr. Michael Clark (NLR-MS 6th administrator) and Erika Connelly (School Psychology Specialist supervisor). The partnership was created to provide 2nd and 3rd year school psychology students with more systems-change experience in the schools and support a single school in its efforts toward data-driven systems change. It is expected that the partnership will last three years and will result in improved academic, social-emotional, and behavioral outcomes for hundreds of students who will be served by UCA School Psychology students.
As a kick-off to this partnership, Dr. Simon presented a workshop on August 8th on Response-to-Intervention (RtI) to administrators and faculty at North Little Rock Middle School (6th grade building). She was joined by school psychology students (Rachel Sanders, Chayla Rutledge, Clifton Adamson, Laura Goodheart, Allison Ford, Lakyn Beard, Victoria DeBoef, and Lindsey McCrory). These students worked with the Middle School faculty to identify current activities in the school that can feed into a RtI system and other activities that will need to be developed.