| Abstract: Supervision in CABAS professional teaching schools are mentors for teachers, teacher interns, and teaching assistants in programs for children with autism, emotional disabilities, and a plethora of learning problems associated with poverty. Supervisors of CABAS programs have typically completed a minimum of three teacher ranks: Teacher 1, Teacher 2, and Master Teacher and have achieved or are working on additional CABAS board certification for Assistant, Associate, and Senior Behavior Analyst ranks. All CABAS ranks focus on multiple exemplars of the vocabulary of the science (research with outcomes that produce significant contributions to practice). There are also three CABAS Research Scientist ranks, which document research based contributions to practice and the scientific literature. The completion of each rank provides a measure of the increasing sophistication of a supervisor’s use of scientific tacts and levels of complexity of strategic analysis. The data demonstrate a functional relationship between the level of a supervisor’s verbal behavior and the rate of learning of students, teachers, teacher interns, and teaching assistants in the CABAS programs. |