Leadership in Behavior Support
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Leadership in Behavior Support
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. Through Leadership in Behavior Support training, building administrators will explore their important responsibility of guiding and shaping the attitudes and actions that influence school culture and climate. The goal is to create and sustain a safe and productive school environment that fosters growth, encourages responsible behavior, and supports student success. Workshop topics cover the instructional leader’s role in:
This professional development is targeted to principals, aspiring principals, district leadership, and other building leaders in grades K–12. It’s also recommended for leadership teams. It can be offered as a stand-alone training or in tandem with other Safe & Civil Schools services such as CHAMPS/DSC, Coaching CHAMPS, and Foundations.
- Building positive relationships among stakeholders, including staff, students, families, and the community
- Forming and working with a behavior leadership team
- Establishing a 3-level discipline system for handling misbehavior to ensure effective and consistent responses throughout the school
- Implementing positive and proactive classroom management
- Ensuring sustainability of improvement efforts and positive climate and culture
- Developing/Enhancing the foundation for a positive and proactive learning climate
- Using the Continuous Improvement Cycle to address issues with common areas and schoolwide policies
- Collecting and analyzing data to support decision making
- Establishing an effective structure associated with supervision that is positive and proactive
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Leadership in Behavior Support training
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Effective leaders, successful schools
Safe & Civil Schools Leadership in Behavior Supports training provides school building leaders with a powerful framework to enhance their influence and effectiveness within their schools. At the heart of this training is the recognition that leaders are instrumental in guiding behavior support systems that create a safe and supportive school climate. By equipping leaders with the tools and knowledge to address safety, student motivation, and problem behaviors, the training ensures that these leaders can shape the environment in ways that foster student engagement and connectedness. When building leaders take an active role in guiding behavior, they help establish a foundation where students and staff feel supported, respected, and ready to learn.
Through this training, leaders also deepen their role in shaping a learning climate where high expectations and continuous growth are the norm. A key emphasis is placed on instructional leadership—conducting classroom observations, promoting professional development, and holding staff and students to high academic standards. Leaders become not just administrators but facilitators of learning, ensuring that the behavioral environment supports academic success. This broader view strengthens the school’s overall impact on student outcomes by integrating behavior supports with instructional goals.
Relationship building is another critical area emphasized in the training. Leaders are encouraged to cultivate strong, trusting relationships with staff, students, and families. These relationships are essential for fostering collaboration, improving communication, and building a shared commitment to the school’s behavioral goals. When leaders model trust and openness, it helps build a community where everyone feels valued and heard. This relational approach is also vital in motivating staff and ensuring that all voices are considered in shaping and sustaining behavior initiatives.
Another dimension of leadership addressed in the training is the facilitation of staff unity and shared decision-making. Leaders are tasked not only with setting direction but also with bringing people together around common goals. This involves establishing and collaborating with a behavior leadership team, encouraging hesitant staff to participate in initiatives, and clarifying how decisions are made. By engaging staff in meaningful ways and using data to drive decisions, leaders can build buy-in and create a shared sense of responsibility for schoolwide behavior support systems.
Finally, the training highlights the importance of sustainability and long-term improvement. Leaders are trained to drive and maintain a continuous cycle of reviewing, prioritizing, revising, and implementing practices that support positive behavior. They learn how to provide ongoing support, motivation, and even incentives to ensure staff stay engaged in the work over time. In this way, building-based leaders become champions of both immediate change and lasting transformation, creating schools where positive climate, collaboration, and student success are built to endure.
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Leadership in Behavior Supports
Leadership in Behavior Support: Administrator’s Guide (2nd ed.) supports building administrators in the important responsibility of guiding and shaping the attitudes and actions that influence school culture and climate. The goal is to create and sustain a safe and productive school environment that fosters growth, encourages responsible behavior, and supports student success.
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