Universal screening provides early identification of students who may require intervention and supports. This discussion examines how universal screening can examine a broad range of behaviors to inform interventions for behavorial and emotional concerns in the school setting.

Transgender and gender diverse students face a unique set of challenges. School psychologists can take a lead role as allies and advocates to ensure schools provide the right supports to ensure these students' success.

Students of color are disproportionally identified for special education under the category of emeotional disturbance. This session discusses how school psychologists can make disability determination decisions using culturally responsive assessment practices, including addressing culture in interviews and analyzing cultural factors in the context of eligibility criteria.

Participants discuss a study that evaluated the social validity and effectiveness of a social and emotional learning (SEL) parent-training program for Latino populations, and its implications for practice.

This session reviews numerous apps for smartphones, Internet services, and various Internet sites, and discusses how to use them in an ethical and secure manner to increase practice knowledge and effectiveness.

Schools can help create a protective peer ecology in which all students are socially successful, involved with reducing bullying, and buffered from the negative effects of bullying. Participants discuss a data-based problem-solving model to systematically assess and strengthen the peer ecology, so that it is protective for all students in diverse schools.

Youth transitioning from restrictive placements to traditional school settings present with behavioral and educational challenges that often result in school dropout or failure. Alex Trout discusses the challenges faced by reintegrating youth, the development of the On The Way Home program, preliminary effects on placement and school stability, and strategies for successful school reintegration.

There is a great deal of opinion, hearsay, and myths circulating regarding the Affordable Care Act, as well as its impact to the role of school psychologists. In this discussion, participants, Katie Eklund, Kelly Vaillancourt, & John Kelly examine the real implications this legislation has for practitioners in the school setting.

School safety expert Dewey Cornell discusses the need for school psychologists to share the seemingly secret evidence that schools are much safer than commonly believed and that school violence, ranging from bullying to shootings, can be prevented.

T. Chris Riley-Tillman disccusses the new National Center on Intensive Intervention, which was developed to extend the work of the National Center for RTI to students who do not respond to Tier 1 or 2 interventions.