A Strategic Science of Teaching for a More Just Education System

This paper describes a strategic science of teaching (SST) and its application to effective education as a form of social justice. SST is grounded in the Comprehensive Application of Behavior Analysis to Schooling (CABAS^®), a system-wide approach to teaching. The Accelerated Independent Learner (AIL) model stems from the CABAS^® system but operates within public schools and general education classrooms where the science of behavior is applied to establish academic, social, and self-management repertoires for all students. In the AIL model, data from the student’s progress drives instruction. The arrangement of the classroom includes classroom management, instructional presentations, curriculum-based measurement, visual displays of individual student mastery of curricular objectives, the interaction between verbal development and what to teach, and acquisition of learning cusps. Another critical aspect of these classrooms includes teacher measures and teacher education. All these components are used to collectively accelerate student learning. Using this model, we attempt to remove the barrier to a one-size-fits-all education system, thus creating a more just educational system for all children.