Conference:
Lakewood, CA
(Long Beach)
March 12-13

Presented By Howard Knoff, Ph.D.
This interactive presentation focuses (Day 1) on how to establish effective school-wide Discipline, Behavior Management, and School Safety systems (Tier 1) to increase students’ interpersonal, social problem-solving, conflict prevention and resolution, and emotional coping skills, as well as their academic engagement and academic achievement. Using a “Positive Behavioral Support” foundation, the workshop then (Day 2) discusses Strategic (Tier 2) and Intensive (Tier 3) interventions to assist challenging students who are behaviorally unsuccessful or non-responsive.

One of the principles emphasized throughout the workshop is: “The absence or elimination of a student’s behavioral problem does not necessarily mean that the student has good pro-social skills.” For that reason, Day 1 will focus on how to teach students effective social, emotional, and behavioral skills, and how to help them to apply these skills at self-management level.

Day 2 will focus on how to specifically plan, implement, and evaluate Tier 2 behavioral interventions. These interventions will be organized to address the need to: (a) Increase or Establish New Student Behaviors; (b) Decrease or Eliminate Inappropriate Student Behaviors; (c) Teach Attention and Engagement Skills; (d) Teach Social, Self-Management, and Self-Control Skills; (e) Increase Student Motivation; and (f) Address Teasing, Taunting, Bullying, Harassment, and Physical Aggression/Fighting. The specific interventions discussed will be evidence-based, teacher-friendly, and field-tested.

This workshop will provide case examples as appropriate. For each intervention, the following information will be provided: (a) Problem Situations where the Intervention is most-used or most useful; (b) functional assessment outcomes that necessarily link to make this intervention relevant; (c) the Age Levels where the Intervention will be most successful; and (d) the Severity Level of the Student and/or Problem where the Intervention will be most successful. While participants may come separately to either Day 1 or Day 2, we strongly recommend that they attend both days so that they get the benefits from integrating all of the information.