Interested in CHAMPS?

If you can you answer the following questions, you're ready for the CHAMPS Training of Trainer session:

• What do the letters in the acronym CHAMPS stand for?
• Which module of CHAMPS would you not train as "stand-alone" content?
• What are the four functions of purposeful/habitual misbehavior addressed in CHAMPS?
• How does one calculate the 3:1 ratio of interactions?
• What are three characteristics of a good attention signal?

If you were unable to answer these questions, you're not quite ready for CHAMPS Training of Trainer. To get the most out of the conference, please sign up for General Content sessions.

CHAMPS: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management 2nd Edition

Presented by Laura Hamilton
Three days: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
TRAINING OF TRAINER

This CHAMPS session focuses on training staff to manage student behavior and prevent problems in the classroom. Learn techniques for showing teachers how to work on essential classroom management competencies, including teaching expectations, designing schedules, using positive interactions, and establishing consequences for misbehavior. Topics include: how to effectively incorporate The Teacher’s Encyclopedia of Behavior Management in the CHAMPS classroom model. Participants receive a PowerPoint presentation that follows the structure of Discipline in the Secondary Classroom. Bring your copy of CHAMPS 2nd ed.) to the session.

On the Playground

Presented by Laura Hamilton
One day: Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT

This session, designed for administrators, teachers, and playground supervisors interested in structuring orderly schoolyard environments, introduces On the Playground: A Guide to Playground Management.

On the Playground guides school staff through the steps of planning and implementing policies that facilitate the creation of positive playground environments. Learn how you can reduce unnecessary disciplinary referrals, enhance school climate and safety, increase positive interactions between staff and students, and improve staff communication, coordination, and consistency in dealing with behavior problems on the playground.

Interventions: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students

Presented by Mike Booher
Three days: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
TRAINING OF TRAINER

This session focuses on how to train general and special education teachers to use Interventions: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students. The first seven chapters of the book describe early-stage interventions that all teachers can be trained to implement, thus creating an agreed-upon protocol for universal interventions involving systematic data collection. The final 12 chapters explain how to implement, in collaboration with an interventionist (psychologist, counselor, or behavior specialist), highly structured and research-based interventions for the students with the most intensive needs in the regular classroom. This book and the corresponding training sessions are the perfect implementation tools for establishing a Response-to-Intervention approach.

We will also introduce three problem-solving processes that intervention teams can use to ensure effective design of individualized behavior interventions. Developed by Randy Sprick, these three processes are described in Behavioral Response to Intervention: Creating a Continuum of Problem-Solving & Support. These three tools can be used in concert with Interventions: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students to create a comprehensive approach to behavior and an effective component of a school or district's RTI process. Bring your copy of Interventions to the session. We recommend you bring your copy of Behavioral Response to Intervention as well.

START on Time! Safe Transitions and Reduced Tardies

Presented by Susan Isaacs
One day: Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT

Designed for administrators and school leadership teams interested in reducing tardies, structuring orderly hallways, and increasing school safety, this session introduces START on Time! Safe Transitions and Reduced Tardies.

START on Time! guides schools through the process of designing a proactive and positive plan for creating safe transitions and reduced tardies. Learn how to reduce your school’s most violent offenses (fighting, vandalism, drug sales, gang activity) and how to get your students back into the classroom. Discover the 10 steps leadership teams use to guide faculty in implementing and sustaining START on Time!.

CHAMPS: A Proactive, Positive Approach to Classroom Management and Discipline in the Secondary Classroom

Presented by Susan Isaacs
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
GENERAL CONTENT

This CHAMPS and Discipline in the Secondary Classroom session is designed for teachers who want to improve classroom management. Strategies presented in this training will increase the teacher’s ability to manage student behavior and enhance student motivation. We will discuss teaching students to behave in a responsible manner, improving behavior in transitions, reducing off-task behavior during instruction and independent work, and using positive feedback and consequences more effectively. This session is appropriate for teachers K-12, including content from CHAMPS and Discipline in the Secondary Classroom.

Coaching Classroom Management

Presented by Tricia Skyles
Two day: Wednesday and Thursday
TRAINING OF TRAINER

This session is for trainers who will be working with coaches and administrators interested in helping teachers manage their classrooms effectively through the power of coaching.

Learn strategies and suggestions to help administrators organize staff for effective classroom management implementation, communicate clear expectations to staff, and structure effective classroom observations. This session will help you focus administrative leadership, passion, and commitment in encouraging teachers at every level to view coaching as a resource for improving classroom management practices.

This session will also provide ideas and suggestions for coaches, or trainers of coaches, who will be working with teachers in a nonevaluative role. Examine highly effective training techniques and the partnership principles as a way to guide professional development. Learn how to use forms and strategies for working with teachers directly and immediately, and develop guidelines for selecting and implementing interventions based on observational data. Bring your copy of Coaching Classroom Management (2nd ed.) to the session.

Tough Kid Series: Practical Behavior Management

Presented by William R. Jenson
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
GENERAL CONTENT

This session introduces the basic philosophy of The Tough Kid series, outlining definitions, assumptions, and techniques included in these practical materials. Review the causes of Tough Kid behavior and how to avoid educational practices that can harm students. Learn proactive and positive strategies, including Mystery Motivators and the Get’m On Task computer program, to remediate problematic behaviors. Examine strategies to decrease the behavioral excesses of noncompliance and arguing. All strategies presented are evidence-based interventions that can be efficiently implemented by both general and special educators.

In addition, the session offers advanced techniques from The Tough Kid series including Managing the Toughest Tough Kids, Working with Parents of Tough Kids, and Tough Kid Issues for Administrators.

Adding Zip & Zest to Our Lessons

Presented by Anita Archer
One day: Wednesday
GENERAL CONTENT

This session, for the teacher who has ever had to work with inattentive, disengaged students, will revitalize your teaching with effective and easy-to-implement methods and procedures. The presentation focuses on the delivery of instruction with an emphasis on engaging all students in the lesson and maintaining their attention. Videos of effective lessons illustrate best practice. We will model all instructional procedures, giving participants ample time to practice what they’ve learned.

Tough Kid Bully Blockers: 15-Minute Lessons for Prevention and Reduction

Presented by William R. Jenson
One day: Wednesday
TRAINING OF TRAINER

Learn about an evidence-based bully intervention program that prevents and reduces bullying behaviors and increases positive classroom or school climate in the elementary school. This model views the Tough Kid as both a bully and victim of bullying. Strategies are organized into three tiers (schoolwide, classroom, individual student) and apply in both regular and special education classrooms. Many activities can be easily integrated into existing academic curriculum, providing enrichment and enhancement of academic skills. Topics covered include the facts about bullying, a universal definition of bullying, and increasing bullying awareness among educators and students.

The afternoon session will show trainers how to implement a schoolwide Bully Blockers bully prevention program, addressing such issues as troubleshooting the program, assessing problem areas and specific needs, involving parents, and evaluating the program’s effectiveness. Bring your copy of The Tough Kid Bully Blockers Book to the session.

RTI and PBS District-Level Implementation Seminar

Presented by Randy Sprick
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
GENERAL CONTENT

This session, highly recommended for district teams, will focus on the issues, triumphs, and challenges of implementing the Safe & Civil Schools approach to instructional, proactive discipline at the district level. Participants will explore how to create a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) continuum of services for behavior. Topics include: district-level implementation of Foundations (schoolwide PBS), CHAMPS (classroom management and coaching), and Interventions/BRTI (problem-analysis and intervention design and support). This will be an interactive session. Those who have been implementing Safe & Civil Schools approaches will offer ideas and concerns so that those considering implementation can design a comprehensive plan for training, evaluation, support, and long-term maintenance.

Consider bringing a couple of your key trainers or coaches, a highly respected principal (who understands Safe & Civil Schools), an area or deputy superintendent, a superintendent, and perhaps even a board member. This interactive and collaborative seminar offers a great opportunity for school district personnel to learn from the experiences of their colleagues.

In the Driver's Seat

Presented by Jo Mascorro
One day: Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT

In the Driver’s Seat: A Roadmap to Managing Student Behavior on the Bus can help district bus drivers create and maintain a safe, responsible, and positive environment on the school bus. Learn how to use this program as a potential resource to improve the behavior management skills of district bus drivers, increase positive interactions between drivers and students, enhance student safety on the bus, and reduce driver turnover.

This session represents the perfect opportunity for Foundations teams to augment their present Safe & Civil Schools schoolwide Positive Behavior Support effort! To explore every aspect of the campus community, consider sending a whole-district team representative of all school stakeholders, including a transportation trainer/supervisor, to the conference.

Sign up for Training of Trainer (TOT) sessions if:

You will be training your colleagues in Safe & Civil Schools' proactive, positive, and instructional practices and procedures.

Participants in TOT sessions are required to have prior knowledge of, and experience in, implementing Safe & Civil Schools programs.

Sign up for general content sessions if:

You want to learn specific strategies for improving student engagement, classroom behavior, and behavior in common areas.

You want to learn how to develop an RTI continuum of services for behavior at the building and district level.