Hands-on Strategies that Make Learning Stick (K-8)

Kinesthetic, hands-on learning is essential for reaching our at-risk and reluctant
learners. In this highly practical session, you will experience and learn ways to engage even your most resistant students. Be prepared for fun, user-friendly ideas
that you can use the minute you see your students again!

End the Frustration: Helping Students with Academic Difficulties (K-12)

Are you tired of beating your head against the wall trying to reach your students who are at-risk for academic failure? In this fun, hands-on session, you will discover ways to keep students engaged and learning by differentiating to best meet their unique needs. You will also find ways to help students better remember what they have been taught and get out of the rut of “learned helplessness”. You will leave this session with renewed hope and confidence that we can teach and they can learn!

Whole School Improvement: Supporting Students Who Are At-Risk (K-12)

English language learners, special education students, and potential noncompleters of school are often at-risk for academic failure and frustration. In this comprehensive training, you will learn specific strategies for supporting each of these groups, as well as over-arching strategies that help all three groups find academic success. Be prepared for highly effective, research-based techniques that will provide new support systems for even your most challenging students.

Practical Strategies for Working with Students with Behavioral and Emotional Difficulties (K-12)

This intensive seminar will provide you with a wealth of practical strategies and proven guidelines that will help you be more effective with even your most challenging students. You’ll learn powerful strategies for diffusing power struggles, de-escalating student anger and dealing effectively with challenging behavior concerns including Oppositional Defiant Disorders. You will learn how to identify causes of explosive and oppositional behavior in frustrated and chronically inflexible students. You will leave this dynamic seminar rejuvenated and inspired with a multitude of classroom-proven, practical techniques you can use immediately to help your own difficult students.

Managing Angry and Difficult Students (K-12)

Many students today seem to be very angry and present a variety of very difficult behaviors. Bullying is one of these. It has become a national epidemic. Also, physical aggression, angry outbursts, and threats are often demonstrated. In this highly practical session, you will learn how to work with bullies, aggressive and angry students, and the targets of these students to create a classroom, campus, and district system in which students are given options and replacement skills training to help them change their behaviors. Videos, practice, and research based ideas will be presented.

Effective Strategies for Early Childhood Students with Academic and Behavioral Difficulties (Pre-K-1)

Each year, there seems to be an increasing number of young students who are
aggressive, prone to loud explosions, and easily frustrated. They are interrupting instruction increasing teacher and other students' frustration and fear, and causing major problems.The discipline systems and behavioral strategies that work for most students fail to have a significant impact. Many are developmentally immature and need specific strategies to increase both their academic and behavioral success. In this fun, interactive training, you will learn research based ideas for increasing academic engagement and behavioral appropriateness. Tactile and kinesthetic models will be highlighted as a way to teach responsibility, increase academic
engagement, and increase student success.