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Pre-Conference – Wednesday, October 21, 2020
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Pre-Conference Registration 7:00 am – 9:00 am
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Pre-Conference Sessions 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Eric Clark, M.E.d: Defiant, Manipulative & Attention-Seeking Students: How to Unlock Their Potential & Survive The Process – Part 1*
Marquita S. Blades, Ed.D.: POWARRful Teaching Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement & Decreasing Disciplinary Issues*
Richard Guerry: Exploitation, Identify Theft, Cyberbullying & Sextortion: Motivate Responsible Use of Technology*
Carolyn Strong: The QUEEN Model of Conflict Resolution*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session. -
Lunch (on your own) 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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Pre-Conference Sessions 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Eric Clark, M.Ed.: Defiant, Manipulative & Attention-Seeking Students: How to Unlock Their Potential & Surive the Process – Part 2*
Catava Burton, Ed.S.: Trauma: NOT a D-Code Drama*
Steph Jensen, M.S., LPC: Mean Girls Behind the Screen: Addressing & Preventing Bullying, Cyberbullying & Relational Aggression*
Tom Maglisceau, Ph.D.: Distraction, Disruption, Motivation & Grit: Our Brains on Adolescence*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session.
Pre-Conference – Thursday, October 22, 2020
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Pre-Conference Registration 7:00 am – 9:00 am
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Pre-Conference Sessions 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tracie Berry-McGhee, M.Ed., LPC: Girl Drama is Real!*
Robert Jackson: Salvaging Our Sons: Helping Educators Reach, Teach & Empower Young Men*
Allyson Bowen, LISW-CP, CHN: Food, Mood & Behavior*
Damiso Josey, Ed.D., Kareem Spence, M.A., Jamey Roberts, M.A.: Hip Hop 101: How to Connect to & Teach this Hip-Hop Generation*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session.
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Lunch (on your own) 1:30 pm – 4:40 pm
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Pre-Conference Sessions 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Greg Richards, Ph.D.: Applications from Adolescent Brain Biology to Improve Behavior & Culture*
Hotep Benzo, MBA: The NEW PBIS: Behavior is a Sympton…NOt the Problem
Steph Jensen, M.S., LPC: SEL – Moving from the Philosophical to Practical: Integrating Social Emotional Learning & Academics*
Candice Cox, MSW, LCSW: From CHAOS to KHAOS: Creating a Mindset to Understand & Address Toxic and Traumatic Stress within Self and the Classroom*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session.
Main Conference – Friday,
October 23, 2020
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Registration/Check-In 6:30 am – 8:30 am
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Welcome & Plenary Session 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Plenary Speaker: Gerry Brooks
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 10:00 am – 11:00 am
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
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Lunch (on your own) 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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25 in 50 Panel Discussion 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Main Conference – Sunday,
October 25, 2020
Main Conference – Saturday, October 24, 2020
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Refreshments & Exhibits 7:30 am – 8:30 am
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Plenary Session 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Plenary Speaker: Ron Clark
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 10:00 am – 11:00 am
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
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Lunch (on your own) 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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General Session 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Updated Las Vegas Pre-Conference Sessions will be announced soon.
Please Note: Pre-Conference Sessions for the School Climate & Culture Forum Las Vegas will be held July 5th and 6th. The main Conference will begin on July 7th at 8:30 am.
Wednesday, October 21 – 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Defiant, Manipulative & Attention-Seeking Students: How to Unlock Their Potential & Survive the Process – Part 1
Presented by Eric Clark, M.Ed.
Wednesday, October 21, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Working with difficult, demanding, and disruptive students is not a new challenge for educators. However, there are current concerns being voiced regarding the changing nature and intensity of the behaviors of these students. Some educators are reporting increases in selfish, manipulative and hostile behaviors while others are noticing more students who are overly anxious and/or difficult to engage. Even well-seasoned, award-winning master educators can sometimes have their “feathers ruffled” by certain students in certain situations.
Responsibility-Centered Discipline is designed to assist all educators with identifying and addressing challenging student behaviors that affect the academic and behavioral progress of the students with whom they work. This power-packed seminar will provide you with up-to-date insights and strategies for reaching and helping those young people who seem to evoke the strongest feelings of frustration, hurt and sometimes discouragement in professional educators.
Learning Objectives:
- Implement do’s and don’ts to address specific behaviors
- Gain integral key strategies for migrating from an obedience-centered approach to a responsibility-centered approach
- Develop innovative ways to support positive behavior
- Apply strategies for preventing the escalation of difficult behavior
- Identify the underlying causes of difficult behaviors in students
POWARRful Teaching Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement & Decreasing Disciplinary Issues
Presented by Dr. Marquita Blades
Wednesday, October 21, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Creating a highly-engaging & rigorous classroom while trying to manage disciplinary issues can be difficult. In this workshop, participants will learn several effective strategies that can be used to create an interactive classroom that supports increased student engagement while minimizing student disciplinary issues. This is not a “sit-and-get”workshop. Bring your best energy, because we’ll be working through these strategies, just as you will be using them with your students!
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to use academic data to build relationships with all students
- Decrease disciplinary issues in the classroom by creating a more engaging learning environment
- Gain several strategies for increasing student engagement while maintaining rigor and addressing the needs of all learners
Exploitation, Identity Theft, Cyberbullying & Sextortion: Motivate Responsible Use of Technology
Presented by Richard Guerry
Wednesday, October 21, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session Description Coming Soon!
Handling Conflict Like a QUEEN: The QUEEN Model for Conflict Resolution
Presented by Carolyn Strong
Wednesday, October 21, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
The QUEEN model of conflict resolution was created specifically to deal with the needs of girls when moderating conflict. QUEEN’s purpose is to encourage an inner dialogue and foster the notions that words carry consequences for both the speaker and the recipient.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to create a more predictable and consistent school campus with teacher buy-in.
- Identify how to reduce office referrals so that administrators may focus more of their time on being an instructional leader for teachers.
Wednesday, October 21 – 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Defiant, Manipulative & Attention-Seeking Students: How to Unlock Their Potential & Survive the Process – Part 2
Presented by Eric Clark, M.Ed.
Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Working with difficult, demanding, and disruptive students is not a new challenge for educators. However, there are current concerns being voiced regarding the changing nature and intensity of the behaviors of these students. Some educators are reporting increases in selfish, manipulative and hostile behaviors while others are noticing more students who are overly anxious and/or difficult to engage. Even well-seasoned, award-winning master educators can sometimes have their “feathers ruffled” by certain students in certain situations.
Responsibility-Centered Discipline is designed to assist all educators with identifying and addressing challenging student behaviors that affect the academic and behavioral progress of the students with whom they work. This power-packed seminar will provide you with up-to-date insights and strategies for reaching and helping those young people who seem to evoke the strongest feelings of frustration, hurt and sometimes discouragement in professional educators.
Learning Objectives:
- Implement do’s and don’ts to address specific behaviors
- Gain integral key strategies for migrating from an obedience-centered approach to a responsibility-centered approach
- Develop innovative ways to support positive behavior
- Apply strategies for preventing the escalation of difficult behavior
- Identify the underlying causes of difficult behaviors in students
Trauma: NOT a D-Code Drama
Presented by Catava Burton, Ed.S.
Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Adolescents are more susceptible to adverse childhood experiences (psychological trauma) during what Erikson described as the identity versus role confusion stage. Pubescent brains are pruning; trauma or toxic stress can substantially disrupt brain development, changing how they respond to perceived threats. In schools, student’s trigger reactions (fight, flight or freeze) are categorized as disruptive, defiant, and/or disrespectful (D-Codes) resulting in more punitive disciplinary consequences.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of how trauma imprints on the brain
- Analyze how student responses can present as defiance/disrespect
- Gain research/evidence-based, non-punitive disciplinary responses to subjective behaviors
Mean Girls Behind the Screen: Addressing & Preventing Bullying, Cyberbullying & Relational Aggression
Presented by Steph Jensen, M.S., LPC
Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Technology and social media play an increasingly large role in the social development of students today. Studies show that the average student (ages 7-17) spends up to 10 hours a day in front of a screen — cell phone, computer or tv.
Social media platforms have become critical for students who want to stay connected to peers — especially girls. But as girls spend more time trying to stay “connected” online, they actually become more disconnected. Studies show a correlation between the amount of time spent on social media and personal life dissatisfaction. Girls often create elaborate identities and personas on-screen; but do you ever wonder what is going on behind the screen?
As girls experience the turbulent times of childhood and adolescence they often turn to social media to hide their fears, confusion and anxiety from the outside world. As a result, girls are twice as likely as boys to develop an internalizing disorder such as depression or anxiety by mid-adolescence.
Author Stephanie Jensen, MS, LPC will help attendees better understand what is hidden behind the screen of “mean girls,” and gain tools and strategies for promoting the healthy development of confident, strong and happy girls.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how social media affects brain development
- Develop an understanding of how social media can impact mental health
- Discover strategies to teach Netiquette: Send Means Said
- Create a plan for effective communication in the digital and real world
- Apply tools to address social media addiction
Distraction, Disruption, Motivation & Grit: Our Brains on Adolescence
Presented by Tom Magliscaeu, Ed.D.
Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Four high-energy, high-impact workshops in one! This session will help educators better understand the biology of the pre-adolescent and adolescent brains as well as the latest research behind motivation and grit. Additionally, participants will examine Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the characteristics of the Trauma-Impacted Learner as a guide for building resilience in our kids while weaving a safety net for student success.
Learning Objectives:
- Generating a greater understanding of brain development as correlated with learning, motivation, and “grit”
- Utilizing “trauma-informed” and “mindset” research to establish classroom, campus, and/or district cultural norms
- Building classroom and school-wide systems of support through resilience-building strategies
Thursday, October 22 – 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Girl Drama is Real!
Presented by Tracie Berry-McGhee, M.Ed., LPC
Thursday, October 22, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
In this session, we will explore how to use social-emotional learning circles for girls to impact social aggression and decrease the factors that motivate relational aggression. We will also offer interactive tools used in SEL circles to create a safe space through the use of poetry, music, and therapeutic mentoring to develop trauma-free spaces. Educators, Counselors and administrators will understand the benefits of facilitating gender-specific programming that promotes strength and resiliency in girls, increasing literacy while also improving their attitude toward school, home and community while reducing depression.
Learning Objectives Coming Soon!
Salvaging Our Sons: Helping Educators Reach, Teach & Empower Young Men
Presented by Robert Jackson
Thursday, October 22, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Four high-energy, high-impact workshops in one! This session will help educators better understand the biology of the pre-adolescent and adolescent brains as well as the latest research behind motivation and grit. Additionally, participants will examine Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the characteristics of the Trauma-Impacted Learner as a guide for building resilience in our kids while weaving a safety net for student success.
This workshop will address issues that all male students face, as well as issues related to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and/or trauma — including violence and divorce, incarceration or death of parents. How males process stressors influences their behavior, motivation and desire to learn. All students experience negative moments inside and outside of school, however boys process them differently.
During this interactive session, administrators and educators will gain insight into how to help male students overcome life’s challenges with ready-to-use strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify key components for motivating males.
- Discover proven strategies for engaging and motivating boys who have experienced trauma and/or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- Demonstrate key relationship, communication and community-based strategies to reach all male students
- Recognize underlying causes of male student misbehavior and utilize the de-escalation tactics
Food, Mood & Behavior
Presented by Allyson Bowen, LISW-CP, CHN
Thursday, October 22, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
More about this Session coming soon!
Learning Objectives Coming Soon!
Hip Hop 101: How to Connect to & Teach this Hip Hop Generation
Presented by Damiso Joey, Ed.D., Kareem Spence M.A., Jamey Roberts, M.A
Thursday, October 22, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
In this interactive session, attendees will learn how to use Hip Hop music and culture to engage all students and reach those who identify with the culture. The session will explore the fundamental elements of Hip Hop music and culture, and explain how and why students are interested in the art form. Attendees will leave with concrete teaching methods for using of school-appropriate Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom. This session will enable you, as an educator, to become a student of your students who live the Hip Hop culture.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to understand today’s current youth culture and gain strategies on how to connect and engage these students
- Understand the fundamental elements that make Hip Hop music unique
- Integrate elements of Hip Hop into the classroom
Thursday, October 21 – 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Applications from Adolescent Brain Biology to Improve Behavior & Culture
Presented by Greg Richards, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 22, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Dr. Greg Richards introduces the adolescent brain and its structures and chemistry that account for immaturity in decision-making, self-control, and risk-avoidance. The challenges and opportunities of brain biology point a way to positive connections of students to parents, SROs, school personnel, and peers to improve teaching, safety, and culture at school.
Learning Objectives Coming Soon!
The New PBIS: Behavior is a Sympton…Not the Problem
Presented by Hotep Benzo, MBA
Thursday, October 22, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Behavior is a Symptom demystifies the common behavior problems exhibited in schools by first explaining WHY they occur and the teaching HOW to change them. This workshop will: share the precursors that lead to all behavior, inform on how to transform academic and behavioral outcomes, explain what leads to at-risk behaviors and why people repeat the same negative behaviors and demonstrate how relevance and relationships impact behavior. In the end, attendees will learn what is being called “The New PBIS”!
Learning Objectives:
- Identify key components for engaging and motivating at-risk youth and increased student retention.
- Demonstrate innovative non-exclusionary conflict resolution, classroom management and discipline skills.
- Recognize underlying causes of student misbehavior.
- Utilize the Outcome Progression Model
- Differentiate between the four stages of discipline.
From CHAOS to KHAOS: Creating a Mindset to Understand & Address Toxic and Traumatic Stress within Self and the Classroom
Presented by Candice Cox, MSW, LCSW
Thursday, October 22, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
More about this Session coming soon!
Learning Objectives Coming Soon!
SEL- Moving from the Philosophical to Practical: Integrating Social Emotional Learning & Academics
Presented by Steph Jensen, M.S., LPC
Thursday, October 22, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
In this session participants will be introduced to a comprehensive approach to integrate social emotional learning to effectively layer and align academic, behavioral, and social/emotional supports and services for all students in order to reduce frustration and accelerate learning. Participants will also learn how to supplement core instruction in academic, behavioral, and social/emotional supports, to ensure all students have access to supports and services to increase academic and SEL competencies.
Learning Objectives Coming Soon!
Las Vegas Breakout Sessions Coming Soon.
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Pre-Conference – Wednesday,
November 4, 2020
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Pre-Conference Registration 7:00 am – 9:00 am
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Pre-Conference Sessions 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Mike Paget, M.Ed: Positive Behavioral Supports for Students Who Are Wired Differently*
Tom Maglisceau, Ph.D: Distraction, Disruption, Motivation & Grit: Our Brains on Adolescence – Part 1*
Steph Jensen, MS, LPC: Lost Boys: Strategies to Help Educators Navigate the World of Boys for Academic Success – Part 1*
Rick Shaw: First Preventers Playbook: Instrumental Strategies to Create a School Culture of Preventing Safety Issues*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session. -
Lunch (on your own) 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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Pre-Conference Sessions 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Mike Paget, M.Ed.: Disruptive Behavior Disorders — ODD, CD & Intermittent Explosive Disorder*
Tom Maglisceau, Ph.D.: Distraction, Disruption, Motivation & Grit: Our Brains on Adolescence – Part 2*
Steph Jensen, M.S., LPC: Lost Boys: Strategies to Help Educators Navigate the World of Boys for Academic Success – Part 2*
Vaughn Baker: Behavior Pattern Recognition for School Violence*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session.
Pre-Conference – Thursday, November 5, 2020
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Pre-Conference Registration 7:00 am – 9:00 am
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Pre-Conference Sessions 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nathan Levy, M.A.: Strategies to Enhance the Learning of Gifted & Highly Able Students*
Baruti Kafele, M.A.: Climate & Culture Cannot Be Transformed with Disciplinary Referrals *
Vaughn Baker: When Lockdown Fails*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session. -
Lunch (on your own) 1:30 pm – 4:40 pm
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Pre-Conference Sessions 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Eric Clark, M.Ed.: Defiant, Manipulative & Attention-Seeking Students: How to Unlock Their Potential & Survive the Process *
Jessica Sinarski, M.A., LPCMH: Light Up the Learning Brain*
Aaron Wiemeier, M.S.: , LPC: 10 Steps to a Trauma-Empowered School & Classroom*
William Noel, Ed.D.: Color Brave: Strategies for Becoming a More Culturally Competent School
Hotep Benzo, MBA: The New PBIS: Behavior is a Symptom…Not the Problem*
*Please note: An additional fee is charged for each pre-conference session.
Main Conference – Friday,
November 6, 2020
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Registration/Check-In 6:30 am – 8:30 am
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Welcome & Plenary Session 8:30 am – 9:30 am
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 10:00 am – 11:00 am
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
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Lunch (on your own) 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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25 in 50 Panel Discussion 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Main Conference – Sunday,
November 8, 2020
Main Conference – Saturday, November 7, 2020
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Refreshments & Exhibits 7:30 am – 8:30 am
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Plenary Session 8:30 am – 9:30 am
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 10:00 am – 11:00 am
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
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Lunch (on your own) 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
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Keynote & Breakout Sessions 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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General Session 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Updated Atlanta Pre-Conference Sessions will be announced soon.
Please Note: Pre-Conference Sessions for the School Climate & Culture Conference in Atlanta will be held Thursday, Dec. 9 (AM & PM sessions) and Friday, Dec. 10 (AM session). The main Conference will begin at Noon on Friday, Dec. 10.
Mike Paget, M.Ed.: Positive Behaviorial Supports for Students Who Are Wired Differently
Monday, July 6th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Disorganization, irritability, intense moods, emotional escalation, anxiety, perfectionism: these are some of the Top 10 Challenges faced by students who are “Wired Differently” – and by their teachers. Supporting the increasing number of students (now estimated at 1 in 5) with emotional and behavioral challenges requires an array of practices beyond traditional discipline practices.
During this session, author and nationally known education consultant Mike Paget will provide an overview of some of the emotional and behavioral challenges confronting these neuro-diverse students. Increasingly, teachers, counselors, administrators and other educators are realizing that success for these students demands an emphasis on prevention, positive skill-building and other practical supports (including practices at the universal, secondary and tertiary levels) – and that these supports actually improve the behavior of all students. Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS) is one of the more prominent practices, but whether or not your school has implemented PBIS, this session will give helpful insights into the unique characteristics of these students and provide lots of practical supports that will help all students – but particularly those who are “Wired Differently.”
Learning Objectives:
- Discover the importance of adult attitudes & behaviors when using positive behavior supports.
- Explore how primary, secondary and tertiary behavior plans can be best employed with various mental/emotional/behavioral concerns.
- Understand the 8 elements of successful classroom management.
- Discover tools to help teach social skills to students who are “Wired Differently” within the paradigm of positive behavior supports.
- Understand the importance of collaboration between families, schools and community resources.
Tom Maglisceau, Ed.D.: Distraction, Disruption, Motivation & Grit: Our Brains on Adolescence – Part 1
Monday, July 6th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Four high-energy, high-impact workshops in one! This session will help educators better understand the biology of the pre-adolescent and adolescent brains as well as the latest research behind motivation and grit. Additionally, participants will examine Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the characteristics of the Trauma-Impacted Learner as a guide for building resilience in our kids while weaving a safety net for student success.
Learning Objectives:
- Generating a greater understanding of brain development as correlated with learning, motivation, and “grit.”
- Utilizing “trauma-informed” and “mindset” research to establish classroom, campus, and/or district cultural norms.
- Building classroom and school-wide systems of support through resilience-building strategies.
Steph Jensen, M.S., LPC: Lost Boys Strategies to Help Educators Navigate the World of Boys for Academic Success – Part 1
Monday, July 6th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Boys are held back in school twice as often as girls. Boys also get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls, and they are diagnosed with learning disorders and attention problems at nearly four times the rate of girls. Boys are more likely to dropout of school, and make up only 43 percent of college students. Millions of boys are being lost along the path to academic success and career achievement in today’s knowledge economy. Teacher bias regarding behavior, rather than academic performance, penalizes boys as early as kindergarten.
On average, boys receive lower behavioral assessment scores, and those scores affect teachers’ overall perceptions of boys’ intelligence and achievement. Rather than penalize boys’ high energy – as traditional classroom methods often do – successful teachers are learning to take advantage of male liveliness, curiosity and thirst for competition. Unless educators stop to consider whether traditional methods are working for both genders, boys will continue to get the short end of the educational stick.
This session will helps educators understand the structural, chemical and processing differences between boys’ and girls’ brains. It helps educators support boys’ developmental needs, while teaching them social/emotional competencies. Attendees will discover innovative strategies, as well as group and individual interventions, to help boys achieve their highest academic potential.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how boys’ brains work including the chemistry and structure.
- Identify the differences in the ways girls and boys focus.
- Recognize the role of hormones, specifically testosterone and dopamine
- Demonstrate classroom strategies to support boys’ developmental needs
- Contrast the difference between natural aggression and bullying.
Rick Shaw: First Preventers Playbook: Instrumental Strategies for Create a School Culture of Preventing Safety Issues
Monday, July 6th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Are you tired of the mounting violence in schools today? Are you scared First Responders/SROs can’t be everywhere and respond fast enough to save your students? Would you like to know how research-based data proves you can prevent school shootings, violence, bullying, suicides, and other incidents? What if evidence-based data showed you how assets you already have, your First Preventers, can make your school and community safer?
In this session we will share extensive research-based data from real-life incidents/tragedies to show how prevention was and is possible. We will also share how schools with community-wide strategies are successfully preventing incidents, tragedies, and lawsuits by connecting the dots and changing lives and the world forever.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify specific gaps in connecting the pieces of the puzzle.
- Utilize best practices to prevent liability, lawsuits and tragedies.
- Demonstrate the essential steps in intervention and prevention.
Mike Paget, M.Ed.,: Disruptive Behavior Disorders — ODD, CD & Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Monday, July 6th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
You know those students who make your day super difficult? Those who exhibit an ongoing pattern of uncooperative or hostile actions – such as temper tantrums, fighting, cruelty and defiance? Typically educators slip into a pattern of coercion and punishment. Non-disruptive peers start to reject them – isolating them and driving them to associate with other disruptive students. This path can lead to academic difficulties, poor relationships, substance abuse, delinquency and crime. But, these students may actually have a Disruptive Behavior Disorder – Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder and/or Intermittent Explosive Disorder.
In this session, author and behavioral consultant Mike Paget, M.Ed. will share effective practices for working with students challenged by these disorders in the classroom. He will examine each of the disorders – ODD, CD and IED – and connect the dots between the three. What does the student challenged by ODD think and feel about authority figures? Mike will share practical accommodations that will reduce confrontation with these students. Attendees will learn why getting tough and zero tolerance do not work with students challenged by CD and IED. Discover how educators can avoid power struggles and not take the behavior personally.
Learning Objectives:
- Know the risk factors for and symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct
- Disorder and Intermittent Explosive Disorder.
- Discover classroom accommodations and strategies for dealing with Disruptive Behavior Disorders.
- Gain strategies for de-escalating confrontational situations in your school or classroom.
- Learn why it’s important to avoid lectures, interruption, yelling and arguing.
- Learn to use more successful approaches including brevity, listening, neutral tone of voice, honesty and humor.
- Discover how to build self-management through strength coaching, generosity and re-framing.
Tom Maglisceau, Ed.D.: Distraction, Disruption, Motivation & Grit: Our Brains on Adolescence – Part 2
Monday, July 6th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Four high-energy, high-impact workshops in one! This session will help educators better understand the biology of the pre-adolescent and adolescent brains as well as the latest research behind motivation and grit. Additionally, participants will examine Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the characteristics of the Trauma-Impacted Learner as a guide for building resilience in our kids while weaving a safety net for student success.
Learning Objectives:
- Generating a greater understanding of brain development as correlated with learning, motivation, and “grit.”
- Utilizing “trauma-informed” and “mindset” research to establish classroom, campus, and/or district cultural norms.
- Building classroom and school-wide systems of support through resilience-building strategies.
Vaughn Baker: Behavior Pattern Recognition for School Violence
Monday, July 6th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
This course is for every level of employee in a school to identify behavior patterns and understand risk factors that contribute to violent acts. Bad behavior coupled with recognizable body language elevates the warning signs of a dangerous situation. A person’s behaviors, whether they are known to you or not, can give clues to their intent. Recognizing verbal and non-verbal markers creates time and opportunity for effective responses before the situation becomes uncontrollable. Strategies for approaching, interviewing and de-escalating an incident will be discussed along with an overview of intruder/active threat response tactics.
Learning Objectives:
- Analysis: Analyze behaviors in an individual or group that can rise to a level that could put you or others at risk and identify appropriate responses.
- Knowledge: Define how to engage a potential threat in a non-physical, non-threatening manner to assess the concern and evaluate an appropriate course of action.
- Synthesis: Prepare methods to de-escalate situations that involve high emotions, conflict or threats and examine how to resolve them without conflict.
- Comprehension: Describe how to respond effectively despite your body’s natural instinct to react with panic.
Steph Jensen, M.S., LPC: Lost Boys Strategies to Help Educators Navigate the World of Boys for Academic Success – Part 2
Monday, July 6th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Boys are held back in school twice as often as girls. Boys also get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls, and they are diagnosed with learning disorders and attention problems at nearly four times the rate of girls. Boys are more likely to dropout of school, and make up only 43 percent of college students. Millions of boys are being lost along the path to academic success and career achievement in today’s knowledge economy. Teacher bias regarding behavior, rather than academic performance, penalizes boys as early as kindergarten.
On average, boys receive lower behavioral assessment scores, and those scores affect teachers’ overall perceptions of boys’ intelligence and achievement. Rather than penalize boys’ high energy – as traditional classroom methods often do – successful teachers are learning to take advantage of male liveliness, curiosity and thirst for competition. Unless educators stop to consider whether traditional methods are working for both genders, boys will continue to get the short end of the educational stick.
This session will helps educators understand the structural, chemical and processing differences between boys’ and girls’ brains. It helps educators support boys’ developmental needs, while teaching them social/emotional competencies. Attendees will discover innovative strategies, as well as group and individual interventions, to help boys achieve their highest academic potential.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how boys’ brains work including the chemistry and structure.
- Identify the differences in the ways girls and boys focus.
- Recognize the role of hormones, specifically testosterone and dopamine
- Demonstrate classroom strategies to support boys’ developmental needs
- Contrast the difference between natural aggression and bullying.
Vaughn Baker: When Lockdown Fails
Tuesday, July 7th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Mass casualty events are compounded when staff are unprepared. Executing a lockdown and being prepared when the lockdown fails are imperative skills. This session analyzes previous tragedies and appropriate “non-linear” responses — depending on the proximity to the threat. Overcoming psychological and physiological responses for trained vs. untrained persons will be discussed and how this positively impacts outcomes. Understanding the origins for potential school violence threats will help attendees establish a framework for heightened situational awareness. Identifying a concern and understanding the urgency to report will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluation: Review and understand rationalized responses of witnesses/victims and how to overcome them.
- Analysis: Examine HOW past assaults occurred to understand the WHY for training today.
- Synthesis: Design training to be meaningful, consistent and sustainable.
- Knowledge: Define lockdown principles and alternative responses if the lockdown fails.
- Application: Identify measures in your school and community to prevent a potential threat.
Nathan Levy, M.A.: Powerful Strategies to Enhance the Learning of Gifted & Highly Able Students
Tuesday, July 7th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
This workshop, by noted Stories with Holes author Nathan Levy, explores numerous, proven ways to reach gifted learners in challenging ways. Participants will leave with a variety of new strategies and specific ideas to help pupils become better creative and critical thinkers. A variety of successful teaching and parenting techniques relating to social and emotional needs will be shared. Bring your thinking caps and your funny bones to this dynamic presentation.
Baruti Kafele, M.A.: Climate & Culture Cannot Be Transformed with Disciplinary Referrals
Tuesday, July 7th, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Understand how our mindset about hard-to-reach students can negatively or positively affect them academically and/or behaviorally. Attendees will be inspired to cultivate positive change in their educational environment.
Eric Clark, M.Ed.: Defiant, Manipulative & Attention-Seeking Students: How to Unlock Their Potential & Survive the Process
Tuesday, July 7th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Working with difficult, demanding, and disruptive students is not a new challenge for educators. However, there are current concerns being voiced regarding the changing nature and intensity of the behaviors of these students. Some educators are reporting increases in selfish, manipulative and hostile behaviors while others are noticing more students who are overly anxious and/or difficult to engage. Even well-seasoned, award-winning master educators can sometimes have their “feathers ruffled” by certain students in certain situations.
Responsibility-Centered Discipline is designed to assist all educators with identifying and addressing challenging student behaviors that affect the academic and behavioral progress of the students with whom they work. This power-packed seminar will provide you with up-to-date insights and strategies for reaching and helping those young people who seem to evoke the strongest feelings of frustration, hurt and sometimes discouragement in professional educators.
Learning Objectives:
- Implement do’s and don’ts to address specific behaviors.
- Gain integral key strategies for migrating from an obedience-centered approach to a responsibility-centered approach.
- Develop innovative ways to support positive behavior.
- Apply strategies for preventing the escalation of difficult behavior.
- Identify the underlying causes of difficult behaviors in students.
Jessica Sinarski, M.A., LPCMH: Light Up the Learning Brain
Tuesday, July 7th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
This lively workshop will take a fresh look at the root of “bad behavior” and the brain processes behind it. Participants will discover new tools based on the latest neuroscience to increase learning opportunities, reduce negative behavior, and improve communication between school and home. Whether you’re a brain novice or well-versed in research about trauma and the brain, you won’t want to miss this hope-filled learning experience.
Aaron Wiemeier, M.S., LPC: 10 Steps to a Trauma-Empowered School & Classroom
Tuesday, July 7th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
According to NCTSN (National Child Traumatic Stress Network), one out of every four children attending school has been exposed to a traumatic event that can affect learning and/or behavior. These events range from severe weather events, to divorce, to bullying, or to homelessness, among others. The results of exposure to trauma can affect a student’s ability to learn. She may be distracted by intrusive thoughts – distracting her from paying attention, learning and doing well on tests. Exposure to violence can lead to decreased IQ and reading ability.
Is it enough to just be informed? Does information by itself lead to automatic change?
In this session, Aaron Wiemeier, LPC will give teachers, administrators, school counselors and school social workers critical information to increase their effectiveness in working with traumatized students and discover the difference between being trauma informed and trauma empowered. Attendees will also learn the fundamental principles and innovative strategies to take the next step in transforming your schools and classroom. Trauma-informed advocate, Aaron Wiemeier, will guide attendees through seven impactful concepts about trauma to integrate into schools and classrooms right away. As well as, why a social-emotional curriculum is so important and to implement preventative strategies for dealing with toxic classrooms and school cultures.
William Noel, Ed.D.: Color Brave: Strategies for Becoming a More Culturally Competent School
Tuesday, July 7th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Session Description Coming Soon!
Hotep Benzo, MBA: The New PBIS: Behavior is a Sympton…Not the Problem
Tuesday, July 7th, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Behavior is a Symptom demystifies the common behavior problems exhibited in schools by first explaining WHY they occur and the teaching HOW to change them. This workshop will: share the precursors that lead to all behavior, inform on how to transform academic and behavioral outcomes, explain what leads to at-risk behaviors and why people repeat the same negative behaviors and demonstrate how relevance and relationships impact behavior. In the end, attendees will learn what is being called “The New PBIS”!
Learning Objectives:
Identify key components for engaging and motivating at-risk youth and increased student retention.
Demonstrate innovative non-exclusionary conflict resolution, classroom management and discipline skills.
Recognize underlying causes of student misbehavior.
Utilize the Outcome Progression Model
Differentiate between the four stages of discipline.
Updated Atlanta Breakout Sessions will be announced soon.
School Climate & Culture Forum
Las Vegas
July 5-9, 2021
4 Conferences for the Price of 1!
School Climate & Culture Forum
Innovative Teaching Strategies Conference
School Discipline Conference
At-Risk & Struggling Students
School Climate & Culture Forum
Innovative Teaching Strategies Conference
School Discipline Conference
At-Risk & Struggling Students
July 5-9
Atlanta
Dec. 9-12, 2021
4 Conferences for the Price of 1!
School Climate & Culture Forum
At-Risk & Struggling Students Conference
School Discipline Conference
Innovative Teaching Strategies Conference
School Climate & Culture Forum
At-Risk & Struggling Students Conference
School Discipline Conference
Innovative Teaching Strategies Conference
Dec. 9-12