Kevin Filter, Professor

Profile

Dr. Filter is a Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the School Psychology Doctoral Program. He teaches PSYC 701: Problem Solving, Prevention, and Systems in School Psychology and PSYC 740: Systems-Level Prevention and Evaluation in addition to coordinating and supervising first and second-year practicum placements. Dr. Filter is involved with school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (SW-PBIS), primarily in Minnesota, serving as a consultant, trainer, and state leadership team member. He is past president of the Minnesota School Psychologists Association. Dr. Filter served as Associate Editor of Education and Treatment of Children and currently serves on the editorial boards of School Psychology and Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. His research team focuses on implementation science, applied behavior analysis, and SW-PBIS. Current projects address staff commitment to implement SW-PBIS, efficient team-based management of interventions for students at risk, positive classroom behavior management, “above and beyond” behavior at school, and functional behavioral assessment.

Published Research

Curriculum Vita

Education

• Ph.D. in School Psychology, University of Oregon, 2004

Areas of Interest

• School Psychology
• Positive and equitable approaches to K-12 student behavior support
• Implementation Science
• Staff commitment to implement evidence-based interventions

Courses Taught

• Psyc 101: Introduction to Psychological Science
• Psyc 476: Applied Behavior Analysis
• Psyc 701: Problem-Solving, Prevention, and Systems in School Psychology
• Psyc 740: Systems-Level Supports and Evaluation
• Psyc 750: School Psychology Practicum

Highlighted Publications

• Filter, K. J., Johnson, L. D., Ford, A. L. B., Sowle, C. A., Bullard, S. J., Cook, C. R., Kloos, E., & Dupuis, D. (2022). An expert consensus process to distill Tier 1 PBIS into core practice elements essential to improving front-line implementation. Education and Treatment of Children, 45 (1), 51–67.   
• Filter, K. J., Ford, A. L. B., Bullard, S. J., Cook, C. R., Sowle, C. A., Johnson, L. D., Kloos, E., & Dupuis, D. (2022). Distilling check-in/check-out into its core practice elements through an expert consensus process. School Mental Health, 14, 695-708. 
• Filter, K. J., & Brown, J. M. (2019). Validation of the PBIS-ACT Full: An updated measure of staff commitment to implement SWPBIS. Remedial and Special Education, 40(1), 40-50.
• Filter, K. J. (2019). Check-in/Check-out. Chapter in K. Radley III and E. Dart (Eds.) Handbook of Behavioral Interventions in Schools: Multi‐Tiered Systems of Supports. Oxford University Press: New York, NY.
• Filter, K. J., & Alvarez, M. (2012). Functional behavioral assessment: A three-tiered prevention model. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• McIntosh, K., Filter, K. J., MacKay, L. D., Sugai, G. & Ryan, C. (2010). Principles of sustainable prevention: Designing scale-up of school-wide positive behavior support to promote durable systems. Psychology in the Schools, 47 (1), 5-21.
• Filter, K. J., McKenna, M. K., Benedict, E. A., Horner, R. H., Todd, A. W., & Watson, J. (2007). Check-in/Check-out: A Post-Hoc Evaluation of an Efficient, Secondary-Level Targeted Intervention for Reducing Problem Behaviors in Schools. Education and Treatment of Children, 30, 69-84.

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