1. Creating a Culture of Respect
An overview of techniques from RTI, PBIS, Tools for Teaching and other behavior management programs

2. What are the behavior problems and solutions?

3. Response to Intervention

4. Response to Intervention
How to save your energy for those challenging 20%:
Making school-wide expectations clear and consistent.
Practicing expectations
Recognizing and rewarding good examples

5. Discuss Common Expectations and Language
Bathroom
Playground
Classroom
Halls
Gym

6. Communicating Common Expectations

7. Communicating Common Expectations

8. Lunch Hallway Rules
Shoes on the Blue
Facing forward
Mouths Quiet

9. Celebrate, Practice and Reward

10. Prevent or Respond?
Reactionary responses result in nagging and dishing out consequences that often bring attention to the unwanted behavior.

11. Prevent or Respond?
Planning ahead allows you to prevent most unwanted behaviors by “going public” with good examples.

12. Signals
Save your energy by having non-verbal signals to communicate desired behavior.

13. Insist on 100% Compliance
“I am not amused”

14. Bullying Prevention
What is the policy now? What is the procedure for reporting bullying? What is the procedure for responding? How is this communicated to staff and children?

15. Bullying Prevention Stop – Assertively give a “stop signal”
(pbis = “school-wide”)
Walk – Calmly walk away
Talk – Report the incident to an adult
Bully behavior is to flame as attention, reaction and tolerance is to oxygen.

16. Where do we go from here…
Take time to define expectations with colleagues
Discuss “grey” areas
Create visual examples for all to see
Create opportunities to practice
Enjoy your energy well-spent