Hill M. Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Receive the 2010 Ernie Wing Award Hill M. Walker, Ph.D. received the prestigious\u00a02010 Ernie Wing Award for Excellence in Evidence-based Education<\/strong>\u00a0at the Wing Institute’s Fifth Annual Summit on Evidence-based Education.\u00a0 The award was in recognition of his lifetime achievements in the research, development and advocacy of evidence-based solutions for children with behavior disorders<\/p>\n Dr. Walker has been very influential in the field of Behavior Disorders, playing a significant role in defining how problems are addressed.\u00a0 He was one of the first to apply a public health service model to children’s social emotional development.\u00a0 He has written extensively on the need to use evidence-based interventions to address to social and academic development of children, becoming an outspoken advocate of relying on empirical evidence to guide conduct rather than ideology and turf wars.\u00a0 In addition to his overall contributions, Dr. Walker:<\/p>\n Developed the\u00a0Systematic Screening of Behavior Disorders (SSBD)<\/em>–an empirical approach to identifying those students who are at risk for behavior disorders.\u00a0 The SSBD is very widely used in both practice and research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Developed\u00a0First Step to Success<\/em>, which has been empirically validated through rigorous research as an effective approach for improving the social behavior of early elementary grade students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dr. Walker is currently the Co-Director of the Institute for Violence and Destructive Behavior, and Co-Editor of\u00a0Interventions for Academic and Behavior Problems<\/em>–one of the most influential works in the field of school psychology.<\/p>\n The Ernie Wing Award, given annually by the Wing Institute, was named after Ernie Wing, an educator and special education advocate who championed the cause of evidence-based education in California.\u00a0 The award honors excellence in one or more of the critical areas necessary to build an evidence-based culture: efficacy research, effectiveness research, implementation, and progress monitoring.\u00a0 Nominations are accepted from the Wing Institute’s knowledge network, an inter-disciplinary group of education stakeholders from across the nation.<\/p>\n The Wing Institute is a non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting evidence-based education.\u00a0 Its goal is to be a “catalyst” supporting individuals and organizations engaged in evidence-based education across disciplines, geographic regions, and in “real” world settings.\u00a0 It offers professional forums, an information clearinghouse, research, publications and a knowledge network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2010 Ernie Wing Award for Excellence in Evidence-based Education Hill M. Walker \u00a0Receive the 2010 Ernie Wing Award for Excellence in Evidence-based Education","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nfor Excellence in Evidence-based Education<\/strong><\/p>\n