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Professional Development Sessions & Support
Trained by Amie Dean “Behavior Queen”, Shawna blends her teaching experiences with the latest research to share practical tools and strategies with educators and administrators to meet the needs of all students. All sessions are interactive and include planning time for teachers to leave with a clear understanding and way to implement the information.
Available Professional Develop Topics
Practical & Proactive Behavior Interventions
This one-day workshop will equip you with effective and practical behavior interventions, strategies, and techniques that work! Topics include: 16 Proactive Strategies, understanding why misbehavior happens and strategies to de-escalate in tense moments.
Restorative Practices
This session will focus on a general overview and explanation of Restorative Practices, how to use restorative language strategies and the impact of those strategies. Each Restorative Practices session will be embedded with practical examples and interventions that staff will be able to implement and use after the session.
Parent Support Sessions
Working to support families is a vital part of supporting students. These interactive sessions are designed to teach parents and/or guardians skills related to understanding why misbehavior happens, strategies for de-escalation and establishing effective and consistent consequences to create behavior change.
PBIS: Overview
This one day workshop provides schools with an Overview of PBIS, guides your team through the critical elements of school wide PBIS and provides planning time to design your PBIS plan.
Morning Meetings
Morning meetings are used as a way to establish & maintain community throughout the year as well as an intentional time to focus on social, emotional and behavioral skills daily. This one day workshop is an interactive look at the 4 parts of Morning Meetings and time to design, create and lead a sample morning meeting.
Trauma, Resilience and De-escalation
This one day workshop will explore the impact of trauma, ACES, and discuss ways to implement trauma-informed practices. Also, the importance of resilience, a brief look at the brain science of escalation and de-escalation and specific de-escalation & resilience focused strategies.
Additional Support Available
Classroom Coaching & Teacher Support
Classroom Coaching and Teacher Support is available to help teachers implement strategies from the sessions and answer questions and provide support throughout the school year.
School Climate Report
School wide observation and analysis available to assist in the direction and planning of initiatives to improve school climate. After observations and conference with administration a full report will be provided to guide your process.
Behavior Interventionist Support & Website Design
The creation and design of school or system specific behavior intervention resources to distribute to teachers and to help them develop a plan for training teachers to use the strategies and resources discussed.
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