2:45pm Session
This presentation will provide strategies and real-world examples of effective behavioral data collection and analysis systems that are simple, comprehensive, and easy to interpret. The presenter will highlight approaches that have been successfully implemented in an outplacement school that serves students with significant behavioral challenges. Participants will examine best practices for data collection, learn strategies for visual analysis, and address potential barriers to implementation to enhance data-driven decision-making across educational settings. The session will also include opportunities for discussion, allowing attendees to adapt these methods to their own professional environments.
About the Presenter
Katie Connolly, PhD, NCSP
School Psychologist
Capitol Region Education Council (CREC)
Dr. Katie Connolly is a school psychologist at the CREC John J. Allison Jr. Polaris Center and CREC Farmington Valley Diagnostic Center. In this role, she works on creating systems-level change in the areas of behavioral intervention, case conceptualization, data-based decision-making, staff development, and systems of collaboration. At CREC, she has led efforts to implement trauma-specific group interventions across programs, create and maintain data collection and analysis systems, create systems to enhance staff understanding of individual student needs, as well as supporting program-wide approaches to behavior management and intervention. Also within her school psychologist role, Dr. Connolly conducts comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations to support districts, programs, families, and students in determining appropriate supports and next steps for students with intensive behavioral concerns.
Some of her future aims at CREC include planning and implementing universal social-emotional learning programs in clinical day school settings that are relevant, effective, and highly regarded by staff. She also aims to expand the understanding and application of artificial intelligence in educational settings across programs and to support the development of a psychology internship program as part of the APPIC Connecticut Psychology Consortium.
