[Download Now] Intensive 2-Day Workshop: Cracking the Behavior Code: High Impact Trauma-Informed Strategies for Challenging, Oppositional & Aggressive Students – Nancy Rappaport

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A kindergartener who screams You hate me and pushes other kids; a student who makes a threat and may need an alternative placement; and a student who throws things when he is frustrated are all examples of this.

It is time to improve ways to understand and address students’ behavior.

Dr. Nancy Rappaport presents a framework for practical intervention with children and adolescents who have been traumatised. The author of the influential book. A practical guide to understanding and teaching the most challenging students. Dr. Rappaport will share her method for understanding and improving behavior in challenging students which looks at the function of the behavior, accommodations, interventions, and nurturing responses to traumatized children.

You will learn how to implement a comprehensive school safety assessment approach that allows schools to work with mental health professionals to prevent school violence and get students the support they need. The model allows schools to address concerns about students potential for targeted violence and make recommendations to enhance safety. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Dr. Rappaport will have case discussions that will help participants practice and reinforce critical process of assessment and design a care plan.

1. Describe why traditional behavior plans of reward and consequences often do not work for students with challenging behavior.
2. List at least 6 concrete strategies for building underdeveloped skills that impact behavior.
3. Evaluate trauma’s impact on behavior and implement strategies for creating a traumasensitive environment in your school.
4. Design communication strategies for difficult conversations with families about challenging behaviors to defuse potential conflict.
5. List the 4 functions of challenging behavior and the tools to build the corresponding missing skills.
6. Demonstrate the Behavior Code approach to analyze a case and consider the appropriate interventions for a child with self-defeating disruptive behavior in school.
7. Identify key questions to ask when assessing potentially concerning behavior and determining how to intervene effectively.
8. List the components of a comprehensive safety assessment model and why they are necessary for determining student risk of acting on threat.
9. Characterize behavior that is within typical development range such as power struggles with authority and impulsivity from concerning behavior such as increasing desperation or agitation.
10. Develop concrete ways using creativity, humor and empathy to foster resilience and fuel a sustained commitment to working with challenging students.
11. Identify students who do and do not pose an imminent threat of targeted violence to themselves and others to create a safe school climate.
12. Apply key factors to maintaining one’s resilience to fuel a sustained commitment when working with challenging students.

Learning and behavior are impacted by trauma.

• 3 ways trauma affects learning
• 4 paradigm shifts and strategies to better engage students
• Create a trauma-sensitive classroom environment

The behavior code can be cracked.

• 4 SOS tips for challenging behavior
• Address skill deficits that often underlie challenging behavior

Tailoring individual education plans can be done with a toolkit.

• The FAIR plan approach to deciphering behavior and developing an effective plan:
  • Determining the function of behavior
  • Accommodation to change the behavior
  • Interventions to stop a negative cycle
  • Response to an agitated student
• 4 functions of challenging behavior

Strategies for changing behavior.

• Manage transitions and previewing
• Concrete tools, apps, and checklists
• Embedding choice in instruction
• Self-calming techniques
• Classroom-wide strategies to improve self-monitoring

Building relationships.

• Effective strategies for interacting with challenging students/parents
• Approaches to difficult interactions with role playing
• Effective responses to diffuse challenging behavior
• Breaking the cycle of power struggle – improve communication

Key Concepts on School Violence.

• School violence in context
• Critical questions for comprehensive evaluation
• Differentiate between typical vs. concerning behavior

There is a Threat/Safety Assessment and Intervention.

• Step-by-step approach to evaluating threats and intervening
• Comprehensive assessment components
• Prioritize risk factors without profiling students
• Differentiate between transient threats or substantive threats

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