Successful Schools, Inc.

Handouts from conferences, workshops, and trainings where Successful Schools, Inc. staff have presented.

TCASE Great Ideas Convention 2012

Reducing the Need and Use of Suspension for Students with Special Needs
School districts across the country are rightfully concerned about the numbers of students who are being suspended or expelled for their behavior. Part of this concern is heightened by the fact that there appears to be over-representation of students with special educational needs, especially students from minority backgrounds who are suspended or expelled from school (Wu, Pink, Crain & Moles, 1982; Townsend, 2000; Skiba, Michael, Nardo & Peterson, 2002). Emerging research indicates that these consequences are not likely to change the inappropriate behavior of the students involved, nor do they serve to deter other students from engaging in the same behaviors (Skiba, Peterson & Williams, 1997, 1999). Instead, these consequences make the suspended student’s academic progress more difficult, and may increase the likelihood of the student dropping out of school or having other negative outcomes.

• Reducing the Need and Use of Suspension for Students with Special Needs HANDOUT

Midwest Educational Leadership 2010 Conference: Responding to Problem Behavior

The full-day session presents current research and best practices on how to prevent and respond to problem behaviors utilizing a Positive Behavior Interventions & Support (PBIS) framework. PBIS provides a proactive model of behavior support that defines and teaches prosocial behaviors. PBIS can greatly reduce problem behavior and increase desired behaviors among all students. Moreover, a school-wide behavior program creates a school culture for meeting the needs of students who are at-risk for school failure.

• Before Workshop Materials
  • MELC 2010 Conference Flyer
• Workshop Handouts for Part1: Preventing Problem Behaviors: Creating and maintaining an effective school-wide discipline plan
  • RTI &School-wide PBIS Overview Presentation
  • EBS Survey
• Workshop Handouts for Part2: Responding to Problem Behaviors: Designing effective individual & group behavior plans
  • Introduction to Targeted Interventions
  • Quality Indicators for Targeted Interventions
  • Classroom Professional Development Tool

Indiana Association of School Psychologists 2009 Conference:
PBIS: How to prevent & respond to problem behavior

These sessions provided current research and best practices on how to prevent and respond to problem behaviors utilizing a Positive Behavior Interventions & Support (PBIS) framework. PBIS provides a proactive model of behavior support that defines and teaches pro-social behaviors. PBIS can greatly reduce problem behavior and increase desired behaviors among all students. Moreover, a school-wide behavior program creates a school culture for meeting the needs of students who are at-risk for school failure. Participants attending this presentation learned the critical principles, features, and procedures for establishing a proactive school-wide behavior management plan and how to apply to specific settings ranging from the classroom to the cafeteria. Below are tools and materials that can be used for training on how to conduct a needs assessment and the skills for linking that information to the development, implementation, and evaluation of a school-wide positive behavior support plan. Information will be provided on school-wide (universal), classroom, at-risk students (targeted/group), and individual student (intensive) interventions.

• Before Workshop Materials
  • IASP 2010 Conference Flyer
• Workshop Handouts
  • RTI &School-wide PBIS Overview Presentation
  • Introduction to Targeted Interventions Presentation
  • Alternative to Suspensions & Expulsions Presentation
  • Alternative to Suspensions & Expulsions Activity

Shinn, Phillips, March: Implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) in a Problem-Solving Model at the Secondary Level (NASP 2008)

• Before Workshop Materials
  • Secondary System-Wide Problem Solving Self Study
  • Items to Consider Bringing to your Workshop
  • Reading and Resources List
• Workshop Materials
  • Presentation Slides
  • RTI Self Study
  • Scavenger Hunt Ideas
• Workshop Handouts
  • Dr. Phillips Handouts
  • Dr. March Handouts
  • Dr. Shinn Handouts
  • Classroom Professional Development Tool
  • Effective Behavior Support (EBS) Survey 25 item
  • Classroom Instruction Management
  • Quality Indicator Form for Schoolwide PBS
• Sample School Behavior Plans
  • Middle School School-Wide Behavior Suport Handbook Example
  • Staff Handbook Example
  • High School School-Wide Behavior Support Example Part1
  • High School School-Wide Behavior Support Example Part2
  • High School School-Wide Behavior Support Example Part3
• Secondary Readings
  • Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents
  • Big Ideas: Science Tools
  • Big Ideas: Social Studies Tools
  • Carnegie: Adolescent Reading
  • Carnine: Effective Strategies for Teaching Social Studies
  • Content Literacy Instruction
  • CORE: Secondary Reading
  • Curriculum Modification: Adapting Challenging Textbooks
  • Ensuring Success in the Secondary General Education Curriculum
  • Identifying Students at Risk, Monitoring Performance, and Determining Eligibility
  • Interventions for Improving Study Skills
  • Mainstream Consultation Agreements in Secondary Schools
  • Middle School Reading Intervention
  • Pasadena: Secondary Outcomes
  • Prevention and Management of Behavior Problems in Secondary Schools
  • Principal’s Guide-Improving Literacy Instruction in Middle and High Schools
  • Sample Syllabus: High School American Literature
  • Sample Syllabus: High School English
  • Sample Syllabus: Foundations of Learning and Intervention
  • Strategic Instruction Model Brochure

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