Members of the BEST in CLASS team presented 2 posters at VCU School of Education Research Colloquium which examined 1) BEST in CLASS in early elementary classrooms & 2) teacher reports of burnout, classroom level problems prep. students to success, & observations of teacher student interactions

Looking for another postdoc to join our team. vcu.csod.com/ui/internal-ca…. BEST in CLASS Clark-Hill Institute for #PositiveYouthDevelopment Bryce McLeod Michael Broda

Here is the Summer edition of the BEST in CLASS newsletter! Read about project updates including a recent publication, staff news, info about what’s next, and job opportunities! 📣tinyurl.com/BESTinCLASSNew… Bryce McLeod Kevin Sutherland Kristen Granger Maureen Conroy

Congratulations to the newly minted Ph.D., Dr. Steve Granger on successfully defending his dissertation. What an incredible journey over the past 5 yrs. Wishing him all the best as he begins his next chapter as a postdoc at McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School with Isabelle Rosso and Elizabeth Olson.

In our new study, we explore the role of teacher perceptions of child #externalizing behavior in children’s #friendship centrality and reciprocity Kristen Granger Michael Broda UMD_TRILab 1/9 Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Pre-print: researchgate.net/publication/36…

We had data for a cohort of teachers with pre-pandemic and pandemic data. For early-/mid-career teachers (less than 10 years of teaching experience), higher hope during the pandemic was associated with lower burnout @LeighMcLeanPhD Kristen Granger pdf.ejper.com/EJPER_5_2_115.…

We have a new paper out in #ECRQ where we take a sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children 1/8 Link (free for 50 days): sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Preprint: researchgate.net/publication/36…

Excited to announce two new publications utilizing high-res diffusion MRI targeted at the MTL. (1) We show high-res may outperform standard resolution in detecting subtle MTL differences. (2) We show evidence that structural connectivity of the MTL is reduced with aging.

Thank you to all the contributors on this important project! Kristen Granger Kevin Sutherland Maureen Conroy Navneet Kaur #allysehetrick Read the full text here ➡️link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📣 New paper alert! Kristen Granger led a discussion of how BEST in CLASS aligns with the frameork discussed in Garwood’s paper, which recommended additional research to further understand burnout and treatment fidelity to prevent and treat burnout for special education teachers.

New episode is out today, available on all pod platforms! S4E4: Broader Impacts and Dissemination Plans! Get your science out there!

Thank you to all the contributors on this paper! Kevin Sutherland Kristen Granger Maureen Conroy Bryce McLeod Michael Broda @NatalieVallarta #albertrosas Read this full text here: …nk-springer-com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/article/10.100…

Sharing findings #SPR2023 ⁦BEST in CLASS⁩ ⁦Emma R. Dear⁩ ⁦Ally⁩ ⁦Kristen Granger⁩ ⁦Maureen Conroy⁩

The amazing Michael Broda talking about the power of social network analysis methods for understanding phenomena in applied psychological research Kristen Granger #APA2023

Grateful and excited to be able to recruit 4 PhD students to join us Fall 25! More to come, but please reach out if you are thinking about grad school next year! Broad focus is on the use, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based practices in school contexts #impsci

We are excited as ever to be recruiting PhD students who want to study the use, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based practices in special education- Peabody College and UMD College of Education are partnering to train a cohort of scholars and future leaders, starting Fall 2025

Wonderful talk from Mike Broda today on inductive machine learning methods and the opportunities for using ML in special education research Peabody College VUSPED VCU School of Education (and we had satco for lunch)

Congrats to Blair Lloyd, Kristen Granger, and Mary Louise Hemmeter (Peabody College @vusped1) on their new #IESfunded #NCSER grant. They will study relationship building practices in the context of intensive intervention: ies.ed.gov/funding/grants…