SNAPSHOT: Teachers consistently cite student behavior as the major challenge to their effectiveness in the classroom. In many schools, teachers struggle with student behavior classroom by classroom, often learning the hard way what decades of research have shown--that simply focusing on students with obvious problem behaviors doesn't work.

School-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is a new approach that promotes K-12 student success through effective communication of core expectations and desirable behaviors for all students. Educators actively look for changes they can make in the physical environment to prevent and address problems. The focus is on academic performance
as well as on behavior because evidence suggests that, to be effective, PBS must do both.

In 6 Steps to Implementing Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support, Dr. Terrance M. Scott and Dr. Peter Alter of the University of Louisville, who have conducted hundreds of presentations and trainings throughout the United States and Canada, present their plan for schoolwide implementation in an elementary or secondary school.

CONFERENCE TOPICS: In their presentation, Scott and Alter will discuss:

• The vital role of consistency--getting all faculty and staff to agree on basic behavioral expectations
  
  
• How to monitor and evaluate "non-responder" students and identify those students in need of the most intensive interventions
  
  
• How to predict undesirable behaviors and prevent them through rules, routines, and physical arrangements
  
  
• How to create routines and arrangements to increase the probability of student success through curriculum, timing, modeling, and proximity>
  
  
• How to use curriculum-based assessment to evaluate and alter instructional plans
  

To order by phone, call 1-207-632-1954. Fax purchase orders to: 815-461-5647

Providing case studies of real-school implementations, Dr. Scott and Dr. Alter will focus on both academic and social behaviors as they walk you through their 6 steps to implementation:

Audioconference/webinar $197 INCLUDES: CD-ROM of webinar, including audio and PowerPoint

1. Team and consensus building
2. School-wide planning
3. Developing instructional plans
4. Consequences
5. Monitoring behavior
6. Data-based decision-making
   

Dr. Scott and Dr. Alter will present each step in detail,telling you how PBS programs have been implemented at the middle school and high school level as well as the elementary school level.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Dr. Terrance M. Scott

Fax purchase orders to 815-461-5647. Please add $7.50 for shipping. Questions?: 207-632-1954.

is professor of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and Director of Special Education Programs at the University of Louisville. He has conducted more than 300 presentations and trainings throughout the United States and Canada, is editor of the professional journal Beyond Behavior and is a partner in the federally funded National Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support. He has published more than 50 articles, book chapters, and training media in the areas of behavioral disorders and behavioral support systems.

Dr. Peter Alter, assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University Of Louisville, has made numerous presentations on School-wide Systems of PBS throughout the United States and Canada. He is the winner of the 2006 Carl Fenichel Memoral Research Award for outstanding dissertation in the area of emotional or behavioral disorders from the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders. Before joining the university, he was a behavior resource teacher in Florida, supervising a three-classroom emotionally handicapped self-contained unit in Florida.