*2.9. Engagement Classroom Model*

A less commonly implemented set of practices is the Engagement Classroom Model (ECM), although the Słonezna Kraina and the University of Silesia at Katowice (Cieszyn campus) are implementing the ECM [12]. It includes the RBI, integrated therapy, incidental teaching, the zone defense schedule, and Reggio Emilia features. One of our American sites, MECP in Portland, is working with Head Start programs and other preschools where suspension and expulsion of children with disabilities occurs at a high rate. Implementation of the ECM would reduce, if not eliminate, suspension and expulsion, because the practices include ways to keep children engaged and include effective behavior management strategies for those occasions when prevention of behavior problems has not worked.

Taiwanese implementers are using goal-attainment scaling (GAS), the Teaching Styles Rating Scale (TSRS) [37,38], the STARE [30], and the Vanderbilt Ecological Congruence of Teaching Opportunities in Routines (VECTOR) [39] to determine the interaction of the STARE and VECTOR with the TSRS.

Across implementation sites, therefore, RBI Plus (the needs assessment and intervention-planning practices), our consultative-service-delivery approach, and the ECM have been implemented. This constitutes the whole model, but the whole model is not implemented by any one program. Plans are under way to add ECM to MECP in Portland, which would make that site the most comprehensive adopter of the RBM.
