1. Integrating the NASP Practice Model Into Presentations: Resource Slides
Referencing the NASP Practice Model in professional development presentations helps structure your presentation.
It is an easy way to illustrate the model in practice.
It helps school psychologists see their work within the context of the model and NASP’s professional standards.
It helps decision makers see how the model supports district/school priorities, services and outcomes.
The following slides can be incorporated and adapted into your presentations as you see fit.
Slide notes offer suggestions on how you might adapt the slides using a sample topic (safety and bullying).
Practice Model Resources and Information are available online at

2. This slide is useful if you want your audience to position your topic within the model. It will help attendees better understand the relationship between the domains. You can just note the domains of practice that are most relevant to the content of your talk.
If you want to provide more detail, here are some general talking points:
School psychologists
have a foundation knowledge base in both education and psychology
Use effective strategies to help students succeed academically, socially, behaviorally, and emotionally
Apply their knowledge & skills by creating and maintaining safe, supportive, fair, and effective learning environments and enhancing family-school collaboration for all students
Ensure that their knowledge, skills, and professional practices reflect understanding and respect for human diversity and promote effective services, advocacy, and social justice for all children, families, and schools
Integrate knowledge and skills across all 10 domains of practice, resulting in direct, measurable outcomes for children, families, and schools
NOTE: It is important to note that many practices and services touch on numerous (sometime almost all) of the domains but that today you are highlighting the most relevant domains.

3. NASP Practice Model: Relevant Domains
Practices That Permeate All Aspects of Service Delivery
Data-Based Decision Making and Accountability
Consultation and Collaboration
Direct and Indirect Services for Children, Families, and Schools
Interventions and Instructional Support to Develop Academic Skills
Interventions and Mental Health Services to Develop Social and Life Skills
School-Wide Practices to Promote Learning
Preventive and Responsive Services
Family-School Collaboration
Foundations of Service Delivery
Diversity in Development and Learning
Research and Program Evaluation
Legal, Ethical, and Professional Practice
SINGLE OVERVIEW SLIDE: This slide can be used as a single slide to illustrate the Practice Model as a framework that illustrates the foundational knowledge and skill base of school psychologists. When incorporating the model into your presentation, you may wish to use this slide to illustrate how the discussion will incorporate various domains.
For example, a presentation on a school-wide approach to promote school safety and bullying prevention could use this slide to illustrate that school psychologists will utilize their skills in:
Data-based decision making (collecting data and progress monitoring student and staff perceptions, objective reporting, etc.)
School-wide practices to promote learning (Utilizing systems-level knowledge)
Preventive and responsive services (Employing knowledge of prevention models into practice)
Research and program evaluation (Utilizing skills in program evaluation to determine the effectiveness of the approach)
Importantly, presenters can use this single slide to demonstrate how school psychologists integrate a comprehensive skill set to engage in the topic you are presenting on. You may also wish to use the more specific slides that follow.
The arrows can be used, moved, modified, or replaced, and the slide can be edited as you see fit. 3

4. NASP Practice Model: Relevant Domains
Practices That Permeate All Aspects of Service Delivery
Data-Based Decision Making and Accountability
Consultation and Collaboration
Direct and Indirect Services for Children, Families, and Schools
Interventions and Instructional Support to Develop Academic Skills
Interventions and Mental Health Services to Develop Social and Life Skills
School-Wide Practices to Promote Learning
Preventive and Responsive Services
Family-School Collaboration
Foundations of Service Delivery
Diversity in Development and Learning
Research and Program Evaluation
Legal, Ethical, and Professional Practice
ALTERNATIVE SINGLE OVERVIEW SLIDE: In case you don’t want to manipulate the arrows. Simply highlight the relevant domains with the alternative color. Same general guidance as in previous slide. 4

5. Professional Practices That Permeate All Aspects of Service Delivery
Data-Based Decision Making and Accountability
Knowledge of varied models and methods of assessment and data collection for identifying strengths and needs, developing effective services and programs, and measuring progress and outcomes.
Relevance to Safety and Bullying:
Conduct an assessment of student and adult perceptions of safety
Identify key concerns, locations/times of highest risk, and types of bullying
Review current safety and bullying prevention policies and practices
Identify gaps in adult and student perceptions
Select programs or strategies the match the specific needs of the school community
Individual Domain Slides: In some cases, it may be helpful to address more specifically recommended practices within each relevant domain. We have created slides for each domain for this purpose and, as an example, have adapted the four domain slides (domains 1, 5, 6, 9) highlighted in the overview slide. 5

6. Professional Practices That Permeate All Aspects of Service Delivery
Consultation and Collaboration
Knowledge of varied models and strategies for consultation, collaboration, and communication applicable to individuals, families, groups, and systems, and methods to promote effective implementation of services.
Relevance to [PRESENTATION TOPIC]
Insert relevant research, practices, strategies, etc.
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7. Direct and Indirect Services for Children, Families and Schools
Student-Level Services
Interventions and Instructional Supports to Develop Academic Skills
knowledge of biological, cultural, and social influences on academic skills; learning, cognitive, and developmental processes; and evidence-based curricula and instructional strategies
Relevance to [PRESENTATION TOPIC]
Insert relevant research, practices, strategies, etc.
here 7

8. Direct and Indirect Services for Children, Families and Schools
Student-Level Services
Interventions and Mental Health Services to Develop Social and Life Skills
knowledge of biological, cultural, and social influences on behavior and mental health; behavioral and emotional impacts on learning and life skills; and evidence-based strategies to promote social-emotional functioning and mental health
Relevance to [PRESENTATION TOPIC]
Insert relevant research, practices, strategies, etc.
here 8

9. Direct and Indirect Services for Children, Families and Schools
Systems-Level Services
School-Wide Practices to Promote Learning
knowledge of school and systems structure, organization, and theory; general and special education; technology resources; and evidence-based school practices that promote learning and mental health.
Relevance to Safety and Bullying:
Create a school safety team
Clarify responsibilities of all staff, parents, and students in creating a safe school environment
Teach students to skills to stop bullying
Train staff to recognize bullying risk factors and behaviors and to intervene
Provide appropriate prevention and intervention mental health services
Note: On this particular topic, it would also be very relevant to reference Domain 4, Interventions and Mental Health Services to Develop Social and Life Skills, which is focused individual student level services, as opposed to system-wide. This would depend on the thrust of the presentation. 9

10. Direct and Indirect Services for Children, Families and Schools
Systems-Level Services
Preventive and Responsive Services
knowledge of principles and research related to resilience and risk factors in learning and mental health; services in schools and communities to support multi-tiered prevention, and evidence-based strategies for effective crisis response
Relevance to Safety and Bullying:
Provide training to ensure that school safety efforts are integrated with other school improvement initiatives
Engage all stakeholders, including families, prevention efforts
Ensure cultural responsiveness
Establish positive discipline policies and practices
Ensure that school policies comply with state laws and school board policies. 10

11. Direct and Indirect Services for Children, Families and Schools
System Level Services
Family-School Collaboration Services
knowledge of principles and research related to family systems, strengths, needs, and culture; evidence-based strategies to support family influences on children’s learning and mental health; and strategies to develop collaboration between families and schools
Relevance to [PRESENTATION TOPIC]
Insert relevant research, practices, strategies, etc.
here 11

12. Foundations of School Psychological Service Delivery
Diversity in Development and Learning
knowledge of individual differences, abilities, disabilities, and other diverse characteristics; principles and research related to diversity factors for children, families, and schools, including factors related to culture, context, and individual and role differences; and evidence-based strategies to enhance services and address potential influences related to diversity
Relevance to [PRESENTATION TOPIC]
Insert relevant research, practices, strategies, etc.
here 12

13. Foundations of School Psychological Service Delivery
Research and Program Evaluation
knowledge of research design, statistics, measurement, varied data collection and analysis techniques, and program evaluation sufficient for understanding research and interpreting data in applied settings
Relevance to Safety and Bullying:
Establish outcomes measures and a process for ongoing evaluation
Provide open avenues for input and feedback from all stakeholders
Ensure transparent access to bullying and other school safety data
Use outcomes data to inform changes to policies and need for PD
Facilitate dialogue to ensure consistency of policies and practices across settings 13

14. Foundations of School Psychological Service Delivery
Legal, Ethical, and Professional Practice
knowledge of the history and foundations of school psychology; multiple service models and methods; ethical, legal, and professional standards; and other factors related to professional identity and effective practice as school psychologists
Relevance to [PRESENTATION TOPIC]
Insert relevant research, practices, strategies, etc.
here 14

15. NASP Practice Model Resources Online