Nancy Rappaport – Intensive 2-Day Workshop

You’ve seen it -a kindergartner who screams “You hate me” A student who pushes others; a student that makes a threat to other students and may need an alternate placement; a child who uses a frantic fight/flight response and throws things when he’s frustrated.

 Nancy Rappaport – Intensive 2-Day Workshop

Trauma’s Impact on Learning and Behavior

• Learning is affected by trauma in three ways
• Four paradigm shifts and strategies for better engaging students
• You can create a trauma-sensitive classroom environment

Cracking the Code of Conduct

• 4 SOS Tips for challenging behavior
• Resolve skill deficiencies that often cause difficult behavior

A Toolkit for Tailoring Individual Education Plans

• FAIR Plan approach to understanding behavior and creating an effective plan.
  • Determining the behavior function
  • Accommodation to change behavior
  • Interventions to break a negative cycle
  • Response to an agitated student
• 4 Functions of challenging behavior

Strategies for Teaching Skills & Changing Behavior

• Plan for transitions and previewing
• Checklists, concrete tools, and apps
• Instruction: Embedding option
• Self-Calming techniques
• Classroom-Many strategies for improving self-Monitoring

Building relationships

• How to interact with parents/students who are challenging
• Role playing and approaches to difficult interactions
• Effective solutions to diffuse challenging behavior
• Communication: Breaking the cycle and power struggle

Safe School Initiative: Key Concepts

• Contextualized school violence
• Questions that are critical for a thorough evaluation
• You can tell the difference between normal and concerning behavior

Assessment and Intervention of Threat/Safety

• Step-By-Step-by-step approach to evaluating threats & intervening
• Comprehensive assessment components
• Prioritize risk without profiling students
• It is important to distinguish between temporary threats and substantive threats

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You’ve seen it -a kindergartner who screams “You hate me” A student who pushes others; a student that makes a threat to other students and may need an alternate placement; a child who uses a frantic fight/flight response and throws things when he’s frustrated.

It’s time to optimize effective ways to understand and address students’ seemingly intractable behavior.

In this recording Dr. Nancy Rappaport Presents a practical framework that is accessible and flexible for helping traumatized children or adolescents. The author of the influential book The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Teaching the Most Challengesome Students, Dr. Rappaport She will share her methods for understanding and improving the behavior of challenging students. This includes the function and accommodations, interventions and nurturing responses to traumatized kids.

Also, you’ll learn how to conduct a comprehensive school safety evaluation that allows schools and mental health professionals to collaborate to prevent school violence. This model allows schools to address concerns about students’ potential for targeted violence and make recommendations to enhance safety, connection, and engagement. Dr. Rappaport Participation in interactive case discussions will allow participants to practice and reinforce the critical process of assessment as well as designing a care plan.