Monday, July 14 - Thursday, July 17

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT

Creating a Comprehensive Continuum of Support for Behavior
with Jessica Sprick

An MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Support) is built to ensure that layers of support are available to meet students’ varied needs and to help all students thrive. This session provides an overview of an MTSS for behavior and provides you with the opportunity to assess strengths and weaknesses of your current system. Leave with concrete ideas for implementation and begin thinking about ways to effectively address areas of need, including: 

• Using a comprehensive, team-based approach to address schoolwide climate and
• Coordinating MTSS-B efforts with other initiatives at the district level and in each building
• Implementing an effective classroom management approach across all classrooms and helping all teachers implement classroom-based interventions
• Designing systematic approaches and interventions for Tier 2 and 3 behavioral needs**
• Creating sufficient layers of data collection ensure students’ needs for support are being met as early as possible and school staff can make decisions about when to fade, maintain, or intensify interventions
• Implementing layers of collaborative problem-solving to support students and staff

Participants: District and building Leadership Teams, Directors, MTSS/PBIS/Climate and safety coordinators, Superintendents and assistant superintendents, Principals and assistant principals and/or anyone responsible for supervising implementation of systems of support for behavior

Included textbooks: Interventions (3rd edition)

**Note: This session does NOT provide in-depth training on specific intervention design. If you are looking to design intervention plans for individual students, attend “Developing Effective Behavior Interventions” with Tricia Berg.**

Monday, July 14 - Thursday, July 17

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT

Developing Effective Behavior Interventions
with Dr. Tricia Berg

Chronic misbehavior often gets in the way of our ability to provide effective academic instruction. The goal of this session is to expand your toolkit with intervention strategies that can support students who demonstrate challenging behaviors in your classroom. You will leave with an understanding of how to support individual student needs, including:

• Evaluating how the classroom environment affects student behavior
• Identifying why the behavior has become chronic or habitual
• Designing an intervention plan that will focus on prevention, teaching skills, and motivation
• Using data effectively throughout the intervention process
• Creating decision rules for when to fade, maintain, or enhance intervention supports 

Participants: School personnel who support individual students with challenging behaviors, such as teachers, school psychologists, assistant principals, BCBAs, and support personnel

Included textbook: Interventions (3rd edition) and Early-Stage Interventions

Monday, July 14 - Thursday, July 17

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT

Leadership in Behavior Support
with Jacob Edwards

Effective schools have effective leadership. The role of the principal is extremely complex, with tremendous rewards. Access to the best research- and evidence-based tools and strategies is key to every instructional leader’s success. This workshop focuses on topics related to the instructional leader’s role in:

• Building and maintaining a positive and proactive school climate for students, staff, and the community
• Effectively creating a shared leadership model that can support and unify staff around a schoolwide classroom management model
• Collecting and analyzing behavior data for continuous improvement
• Conducting powerful staff meetings and practicing effective decision making

Participants: This session is for principals, assistant principals, aspiring principals, district leadership, and other building leaders.

Included textbook: Leadership in Behavior Support

Monday, July 14 - Thursday, July 17

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT

CHAMPS and Classroom-Based Behavioral Interventions
with Kim Earthman

Teachers who want to improve their classroom management will benefit from strategies to manage student behavior and improve stu­dent motivation. In this session, participants will learn how to use the third edition of CHAMPS to implement a proactive, positive, and instructional approach to classroom management. This session also helps teachers support the one or two students who chron­ically misbehave in spite of good classroom management. Learn to implement early-stage interventions (e.g., planned discussion, correction planning, increasing positive interactions, data collection and debrief­ing, goal setting, and building supportive relationships). If these are not effective, a function-based intervention is likely needed. This session will prepare teachers to analyze setting events and contributing factors such as lack of infor­mation or skill, need for attention, need for power or control, escape, and more. Intervention strategies are presented for each of these major functions.

Participants: Classroom teachers, teacher mentors, coaches, educational assistants, administrators

Included textbooks: CHAMPS: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management and Early-Stage Interventions

Recommended but not included: Teacher’s Encyclopedia of Behavior Management

Monday, July 14 - Thursday, July 17

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT

Explicit Instruction
with Dr. Anita Archer

This Training of Trainers session is designed for professional developers and teacher-leaders who recognize the incredible impact that systematic, direct, engaging, and success-oriented instruction can have on students, teachers, and schools—people who, in their interactions with administrators, staff, and students, exemplify the idea that how well students learn depends on how well they’re taught. This session will immerse practitioners in the theory and practice of designing and delivering instruction in a manner that is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented—in a word: explicit. Participants will then be prepared to provide this training, as well as follow-up coaching, to educators in their home districts. Among the critical content and skills discussed are:

• Active engagement/opportunities to respond
• Lesson structure and design for both skills and strategies
• Effective instructional corrections
• Professional development techniques

Participants: Teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, building and district instructional leaders

Included textbook: Explicit Instruction

Monday, July 14 - Thursday, July 17

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT

Coaching CHAMPS: Building a System of Support for All Teachers

with Tricia Skyles

If you’re an instructional coach or school leader tasked with supporting teachers in implementing and sustaining best classroom management practices, this session could be a game changer. Built around the concepts of an effective MTSS system for students, we now take this same MTSS framework and use it to guide how we support staff with coaching as a vital piece in all three tiers. We will look at how administrators and nonevaluative coaches alike work to build a universal system of support for all teachers, how to engage in more formal coaching cycles for teachers in need of more targeted support, and how to build an intentional plan of assistance for those on formal plans of improvement. We will also differentiate between coaching to close a deficit in practice and coaching for teachers looking to become exemplars. This session hinges on the belief that with enough support and the right resources, improvement is always possible. 

Participants: Coaches, teacher mentors, administrators

Prerequisite: Must have attended a CHAMPS training within the last 12 months

Included materials: Coaching CHAMPS

Recommended but not included: CHAMPS (3rd ed.) or Discipline in the Secondary Classroom (4th ed.)