All sessions run from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. When planning your schedule, note that TRAIN THE TRAINER sessions require prior knowledge of content. Also, some sessions stretch over two or three days, so make sure that you are enrolled in only one session per day.
Please select sessions from the tract that applies to you. Click on a session name in the grid below to find out more about the session. TRAIN THE TRAINER sessions are marked (TTT) and GENERAL CONTENT sessions are marked (GC).
Keynote Presentation and Reception
Monday, July 7, 2008 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Presented by Dr. Randy Sprick, followed by a hosted wine and cheese reception.
All are invited to attend! Come and meet your colleagues, the presenters, and Safe & Civil Schools staff.
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CHAMPs: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management
Presented by Laura Hamilton
Three days: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
TRAIN THE 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. We will discuss how to effectively incorporate The Teacher’s Encyclopedia of Behavior Management in the CHAMPs classroom model. We will also provide a PowerPoint presentation that follows the structure of Discipline in the Secondary Classroom.
Bring your copy of CHAMPs to the session.
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Interventions: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students
Presented by Mike Booher
Two days: Tuesday and Wednesday
TRAIN THE TRAINER
This session focuses on training general education and special education teachers to use Interventions: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students. This book and the corresponding training sessions are the perfect implementation tools for establishing a Response-to-Intervention approach. The first seven chapters 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 of 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.
Bring your copy of Interventions, 2nd Edition to the session.
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ADR and Effective Leadership Teams—Strategies for School and District Leaders
Presented by Suzanne Hays and Bob McLaughlin
Two days: Tuesday and Wednesday
TRAIN THE TRAINER
This session focuses on behavior strategies for administrators and school leaders. The session advocates a team approach to leadership as essential in developing and implementing change—to improve learning, to create positive climate, and to work with and involve parents and the community. Engage in active discussion and participation while reviewing a wide variety of topics, such as leadership skills, behavior change strategies, effective teams, the on-going improvement cycle, and other key content components from Volume I of the Administrator’s Desk Reference of Behavior Management (ADR).
We will discuss office referrals and solutions to chronic misbehavior (Volume II). We will also review meaningful work (Volume III) as a key strategy for meeting the basic needs of students in the school setting. In addition, we will explore effective leadership team practices as they relate to building positive, proactive, and productive school climates.
Bring your entire ADR set (all 3 volumes) to the session.
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CHAMPs: A Proactive, Positive Approach to Classroom Management and Discipline in the Secondary Classroom
Presented by Susan Isaacs
Two days: Tuesday and Wednesday
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 since we will explore both CHAMPs and Discipline in the Secondary Classroom.
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Tough Kid Series: Practical Behavior Management |
This session will introduce the basic philosophy of Tough Kid, outlining definitions, assumptions, and techniques included in the Tough Kid series. Review the causes of “tough kid” behavior and educational practices that can harm students. Learn proactive and positive strategies to remediate problematic behaviors, including Mystery Motivators, the Get’m On Task computer program, and more. Examine strategies to decrease the behavioral excesses of noncompliance and arguing (What If Charts, effective classroom rule design, and practical reductive classroom interventions).
In addition, the session will offer 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.
All strategies presented are evidence-based interventions that can be efficiently implemented by both general and special educators.
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Coaching Classroom Management: The Administrator's Role
Presented by Tricia McKale Skyles
One day: Thursday
TRAIN THE TRAINER
This session is for trainers who will be working with busy principals or building 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 guide your work with administrators to focus administrative leadership, passion, and commitment in encouraging teachers at every level to view coaching as a resource for improving classroom management practices.
Bring your copy of Coaching to the session. Prior reading of Section 1 is strongly recommended.
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The Teacher's Encyclopedia of Behavior Management
Presented by Jim Whitaker
One day: Thursday
TRAIN THE TRAINER
The Teacher’s Encyclopedia of Behavior Management: 100 Problems/500 Plans offers strategies for problem resolution at a classroom level. Learn how to train staff to use the Teacher's Encyclopedia. We will discuss how to identify the causes of misbehavior (attention-seeking, lack of awareness, power, escape, and so on) as well as how you can help others use this book to select from a menu of procedures that resolve common behavior issues.
Bring your copy of Teacher's Encyclopedia to the session.
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Tough Kid Bully blockers: 15-Minute Lessons for Prevention and Reduction |
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. Many activities can be easily integrated into existing academic curriculum providing an 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 Tough Kid bully prevention program, addressing such issues as troubleshooting the program, assessing problem areas and specific needs, involving parents, and evaluating the program’s effectiveness.
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RTI (Response-to-Intervention) for Behavior: Creating Efficient Problem-Solving Procedures
Presented by Mike Booher
One day: Thursday
GENERAL CONTENT
This session introduces three problem-solving processes used to ensure effective design of individualized behavior interventions. The first process is the 25-Minute Planning Process, which can be used by problem-solving teams or interventionists. The other two processes are both Intervention Decision Guides (IDG), which can also be used by problem-solving teams or interventionists as an effective component of a school or district’s RTI process. The first IDG guide is based on a structured interview with the teacher while the second IDG guide is a functional behavior assessment process. All three processes were developed by Randy Sprick and can be used in concert with Interventions: Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies for Individual Students to create a comprehensive approach to behavior within your school or district.
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Coaching Classroom Management: The Coach's Role
Presented by Tricia McKale Skyles
One day: Friday
TRAIN THE TRAINER
This session is for trainers of coaches or coaches faced with the task of helping teachers improve their classroom management. The ideas and suggestions are geared toward those who will be working with teachers in a non-evaluative 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 to the session. Prior reading of Sections 2 and 3 is strongly recommended.
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Safe & Civil Schools Big Picture Overview: Creating RTI for Behavior Within Your School or District |
This session, designed for district personnel who would benefit from learning more about comprehensive behavior support, provides information on content, implementation considerations, and potential outcomes regarding the three large-scale initiatives in Safe & Civil Schools: schoolwide, classroom and individual student. If you want to know how it all fits together, or if you are familiar with one of the major components but not the others, this is your chance to see the larger picture and how the pieces all fit together to create a true RTI approach to behavior.
The session will include overviews of the following programs: Schoolwide: Foundations, START, Playground, Cafeteria, and In the Driver’s Seat; Classroom: CHAMPs, Discipline in the Secondary Classroom, and Coaching Classroom Management; Individual Student: Teacher’s Encyclopedia, Interventions (2nd Edition), and Behavioral Response to Intervention (B-RTI).
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Adding Zip and Zest to Our Lessons: Revisiting What We Know about Effective Delivery of Instruction |
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 the practices we will discuss. We will also model all instructional procedures, giving you ample time to practice what you’ve learned.
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START on Time! Safe Transitions and Reduced Tardies |
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! is a comprehensive multimedia program that 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!
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Afternoon Bonus Sessions
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Come meet our consultants—find out how we can further meet your needs and those of your staff! These sessions will be offered Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thrusday afternoons. Topics have not been determined, but may include:
- In the Driver's Seat—Behavior Management for Drivers and Transporation Supervisors
- Drop-out Prevention and Alternative Schools—How Safe & Civl Schools Can Help
- Teaching English to Non-English Speakers—A New Curriculum
Optional bonus sessions are open to all participants at no charge.
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