Each year, BEACONS schools completed the following activities:

  • A yearly self-assessment of best practices and development of an action plan for continued improvement.
  • On-going professional development to support their knowledge, skills, and strategies across 4 major Training Goals:
    • To identify, teach, and reinforce students' positive social skills and decrease discipline problems in school.
    • To identify students who are at-risk of school failure based on their social behavior and provide them with targeted group interventions.
    • To identify students with significant behavior problems and provide them with intensive intervention and support.
    • To enhance collaboration practices with families and local agencies and to expand services and supports for students.