Important Notes

Should I sign up for the CHAMPS Training of Trainer (TOT) session or the Effective Classroom Management General Content (GC) session?

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 chapter 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.

Interventions: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students

Presented by Mike Booher
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
TRAINING OF TRAINER Grades K–12

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 a school-based team or 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.

Required text: Interventions. Bring your own copy, or purchase on-site or ahead of time from Pacific Northwest Publishing.

Comprehensive Behavior Management: Programming for Students With Intensive Behavioral Needs

Presented by Laura Hamilton
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
ADVANCED SESSION Grades K–12

Developing successful programs for students with intensive behavioral needs is challenging, to say the least! It is not about finding that one factor that suddenly makes the program successful. The trick is gaining a deep understanding of how to make all factors work together to make the program successful for the teacher and the students. In this workshop, teachers who work in challenging classrooms will learn the essential behavior management strategies and techniques that must be in place when establishing programs for students with intensive behavior needs. Following an overview of all strategies that comprise comprehensive behavior management, participants will delve into details in the following areas:

• Understanding the basic needs of all students and how these needs play into the structure of the program.
• Establishing a solid and highly structured daily schedule.
• Designing the physical setting of the classroom.
• Developing and effectively implementing classroom rules and consequences.
• Establishing expectations and enforcing them consistently. (Participants will learn the differences between rules, procedures, and expectations. When teachers are confused about the differences between these classroom management strategies, they risk inconsistency in their classroom structure and management plan.)
• Developing and effectively implementing a Point Sheet and Levels System to shape appropriate behaviors.
• Building relationships by using the ratio of interactions strategy.

The workshop will also present an overview of teaching social skills and how to correct social errors by using precorrection, social coaching, and the social skill correcction procedure.

Required text: CHAMPS (2nd ed.) or Discipline in the Secondary Classroom (2nd ed.). Bring your own copy, or purchase on-site or ahead of time from Pacific Northwest Publishing.

CHAMPS: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management

Presented by Jane Harris
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
TRAINING OF TRAINER Grades K–8

This session focuses on strategies for training staff to use CHAMPS concepts 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. Participants should have good working knowledge of the content in CHAMPS.

Required text: CHAMPS (2nd ed.). Bring your own copy, or purchase on-site or ahead of time from Pacific Northwest Publishing.

Coaching Classroom Management

Presented by Tricia McKale Skyles
Two days: Wednesday and Thursday
TRAINING OF TRAINER Grades K–12

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.

This session will provide ideas and suggestions for coaches or trainers of coaches who will be working with teachers in either an evaluative or nonevaluative role. Learn strategies and suggestions to help organize staff for effective classroom management implementation, including how to communicate clear expectations to staff and structure effective observations. This session will help administrators encourage teachers at every level to view coaching as a resource for improving classroom management practices.

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.

Required text: Coaching Classroom Management (2nd ed.). Bring your own copy, or purchase on-site or ahead of time from Pacific Northwest Publishing.

Discipline in the Secondary Classroom

Presented by Susan Isaacs
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
TRAINING OF TRAINER Grades 9–12

This session focuses on training staff to work with teachers on issues related to classroom management. Participants will learn to help teachers organize their classroom for student success, communicate clear expectations for student behavior, motivate students to do their best, and skillfully respond to student misbehavior. In addition, participants will learn a range of training options along with training tips and techniques.

Participants should have good working knowledge of the content in Discipline in the Secondary Classroom.

Required text: Discipline in the Secondary Classroom (2nd ed.). Bring your own copy, or purchase on-site or ahead of time from Pacific Northwest Publishing.

Effective Classroom Management

Presented by Tricia McKale Skyles
Two days: Monday and Tuesday
GENERAL CONTENT Grades K–12

This session is designed for teachers who want to improve classroom management. Strategies covered will increase your ability to manage student behavior and improve student motivation. Learn how to teach students to behave in a responsible manner, improve behavior in transitions, reduce off-task behavior during instruction and independent work, and use positive feedback and consequences more effectively. While this session includes content from both CHAMPS and Discipline in the Secondary Classroom, familiarity with these books is not required.

A Practical Guide to School Leadership: How to Develop and Implement Your School’s Climate/Behavior Improvement Plan

Presented by Susanne Hays and Bob McLaughlin
Two days: Wednesday and Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT Grades K–12

This session focuses on practical school leadership to produce and maintain needed change in the critical areas of Student Learning, Climate and Discipline, and Parent/Community Involvement. Participants will be actively engaged in discussion, reflection, and small group activity in a variety of leadership areas, such as the improvement process cycle, STOIC, and how to form effective teams. Other topics include understanding guiding principles for school change, building positive relationships among staff, dealing with employees reluctant to accept change, and creating the overall structure needed to produce and maintain effective change in the three critical areas.

Take it Up a Notch—Refining Your Presentation Skills

Presented by Kim Marcum
One day: Wednesday
TRAINING OF TRAINER Grades K–12

“Help me! I have mastered the Safe & Civil Schools content. Now I have to deliver the training in my home district!” Educators often share that when they return to their home districts, conducting the training is more difficult than it looks. This session will help participants refine their presentation skills and learn how to create a joyful culture in their school that keeps the momentum of positive change moving forward. Learn how to select and tell good stories that enrich your content as well as how to keep participants engaged in the learning. This session will also cover the use of rituals and traditions to foster a culture that values change as well as techniques for dealing with reluctant staff members.

Making Sense of Misbehavior

Presented by Susan Isaacs
One day: Wednesday
GENERAL CONTENT Grades K–12

This session introduces a system for responding to student misbehavior (defining Mild, Moderate, and Severe) that can be used schoolwide. This session will be particularly helpful for schools that are implementing schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (Foundations). The presentation will outline the process for reaching staff consensus on how various misbehaviors are dealt with. In addition, participants will learn research-based strategies for addressing mild misbehaviors. This session is appropriate for teachers, administrators, and others who are interested in increasing consistency in schoolwide responses to misbehavior.

The Tough Kid Series: Practical Behavior Management

Presented by Bill Jenson
Two days: Wednesday and Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT Grades 1–8

This session introduces the basic philosophy of The Tough Kid series, outlining the definitions, assumptions, and techniques included in these practical materials. Review the causes of Tough Kid behavior and how to avoid unproductive educational practices. Learn proactive and positive strategies, including Mystery Motivators, 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.

The session also covers 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.

Required text: The Tough Kid Book (2nd ed.). Bring your own copy, or purchase at the conference or ahead of time from Pacific Northwest Publishing.

Protect, Expect, Connect, and Correct: Making the Most of Effective Supervision

Presented by Susan Isaacs
One day: Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT Grades K–12

This session focuses on teaching all school personnel how to engage in effective supervision that can lead to increased safety, contribute to a more positive school environment, and increase instructional time. Learn how to increase safety in the common areas of the school, convey high expectations for responsible student behavior, and respond skillfully to student misbehavior. The session also discusses how to reduce student noncompliance with directions and schoolwide expectations. This session is appropriate for all school personnel, elementary through secondary schools.

Meaningful Work

Presented by Kim Marcum
One day: Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT Grades K–8

Resiliency research tells us that at-risk students who exhibit challenging behaviors need programs that focus on the positive and allow them to make a contribution to their school. Meaningful Work is a program designed to thoughtfully assign school jobs to students. An adult mentors the student on the job, providing positive attention and nurturing. The program has been proven to drastically reduce inappropriate behaviors and develop a sense of self-worth in students. Learn how to set up this simple yet elegant program in your school.

Disproportionality

Presented by Randy Sprick
Two days: Monday and Tuesday

Disproportionality in discipline is a vexing concern for educators. This two-part session will present ideas on extending gains from Foundations and CHAMPS to directly tackle any disparate impact (e.g., frequency of suspensions) your current policies and practices are having on students of color or students of poverty. This can be considered a "next step" for your Foundations PBIS work.

TRENDS

Presented by Randy Sprick
One day: Wednesday

Randy Sprick and colleagues have developed a comprehensive data system to capture data at all levels—with individual students, in the classroom, and schoolwide. Use of data drives effective behavioral practices. This session provides a brief overview of how the use of TRENDS can move your school/district toward state-of-the-art data-based behavior support practices.

Superheroes

Presented by Bill Jenson
One day: Tuesday

Introducing Superheroes Social Skills, a fun and enticing multimedia program that teaches 17 critical social skills. Originally designed to increase the social competencies of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), the program has been field tested with other groups and is appropriate for preschool through upper elementary-age students with ASD, developmental delays, and behavior disorders. Superheroes uses proven techniques such as fast-hands animation, peer modeling videos, social narratives in the form of Digital Comics, and Power Cards and Power Posters to record social skill development. Generalization strategies are also incorporated. Learn how the program can be implemented in groups, in the classroom, or schoolwide.

The Tough Kid Bully Blockers Strategies

Presented by Bill Jenson
One day: Wednesday

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, organized into three tiers (schoolwide, classroom, individual student), apply in both regular and special education classrooms.

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.