Principles of sustainable prevention: Designing scale-up of School-wide Positive Behavior Support to promote durable systems

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-21

  McIntosh, Kent ^a   Filter, Kevin J ^b   Bennett, Joanna L ^a   Ryan, Charlotte ^c   Sugai, George ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Minnesota Department of Education   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 77955613045     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: 15206807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pits.20448     Document Type: Article

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