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Tip Sheets

TOPIC SOURCE
5 Teacher Tips for Summer  
7 Essential Principles for Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage S. Newman
8 Skills Every Teacher Should Have  
9 Ways That Humor Heals T. Borchard
10 Basic Steps in Special Education  
10 Best Practices for Schools NAMI
10 Commandments for Effective Meetings  
10 Commandments for Teachers of Handicapped Students  
10 Elements Every High School Should Have In Place Alliance for Excellent Education
10 Most Powerful Two-Letter Words  
10 Myths of Mental Illness  
10 Suggestions for Getting Along Better with People  
10 Terrific Traits of Autistic People  
10 Tips for Schools on Avoiding Confrontation with Parents P. Howey
11 Principles for Teaching in Urban Schools G. Cartledge
12 Keys to Successful Behavioral Improvement  
12 Principles of Re-education N. Hobbs
12 Reminders Which Will Help You Have a Better Year Teaching  
15 Ten Commandments of LD  
20 Tips to Promote Self Esteem R. Lavoie
45 Lessons Life Taught Me R. Brett
50 Behaviors Which May Be Learned Through Group Processes S. Braaten
A Student's Request of His Teacher  
The ABCs of Adolescents  
The ABCs of Behavior chart S. Braaten
The ABCs of Working with Parents  
Acronyms and Laws S. Braaten
Action Research for Teachers  
Acts of Good Discipline  
After the Disaster - Children's Mental Health Checklist FEMA
ANON - Myth Behind the Legend  
Answer - Acronym Unknown
Attributes of Successful Teachers  
Autism 101 for Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse  
Basic Principles About the Nature of Human Beings  
Behavior Labeling  
Behavioral Definitions  
Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse  
Building on Family Strengths D. Jordan
Building Self Esteem  
Bullying of Children with Exceptionalities CEC
Bus Rules  
Bus Transportation Challenges S. Braaten
Ceremony and Ritual N. Hobbs
Challenging Behavior Effective Discipline  
Characteristics of Effective Teachers of EBD S. Braaten
Child and Adolescent Mental Health  
Children with Emotional Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System  
Common Passive Attention Misbehaviors R. Driekurs
Components of an Effective Program V. Jones
Confident Children  
Constitution Bill of Rights & Education  
Creating A Climate for Learning - Classroom Management  
Crisis Intervention-Four Steps  
Criterion for Useful Theories  
Dead Man's Test
EBD Components chart S. Braaten
EBBP Competencies for Evidence-based Practice  
Educators of Students with EBD Assumptions  
Effective Programs  
Effective Schools  
Essential Intervention Plan Elements S. Braaten
Facilitating Feedback S. Braaten
FORCE - Acronym  
From At-Risk to Excellence - Principles for Practice  
Five Cs of Positive Youth Development  
Glossary of Instructional Strategies  
Guide to Disability Laws 2004  
Hierarchy of Needs A. Maslow
How to Escalate a Crisis  
Human Service System - Pyramid or Circle  
Inclusion Poem  
Intervention Hierarchy S. Braaten
Judicious Discipline  
Juvenile Justice Terms MN  
Key Maker R. Strandlund
Keys for Kids  
LEADER Acronym  
Learning Disabilities Spelled Out  
Listen  
Majority of US Adolescents with Depression Go Untreated C. Cassels
Mental Health Facts About Our Kids
Mental Health Glossary About Our Kids
Mentor  

Minimizing the Pain of Rejection

  

Modifying Curriculum and Instruction

  
Most Common IEP Mistakes  

My 10 Commandments For Adults in Kids Lives

  

Peer Conflict Mediation

  

Percentage of Children Age 4-17 with Serious EBD 2001-2007

  

Perspectives

  

Phases of Acing-Out Cycle

 G. Colvin

Planting Time - How to Insure a Harvest of Good Students

  

Positive Behavior Support Glossary

  

Positive Behavior Support Overview

  

Positive School Climate

 E. Guetzloe

Practice of Universal Education

  
Practices That Put Students Down  
Prevention Strategies-What Administrators Can Do UVT
Problemology Vorrath & Brendtro
Rate of Serious Crimes by Youth 1980-2005  
Research-based Effective Teaching Principles  
Resilience and Protective Factors  
Rules for Making Rules  
School-based Mental Health Facts  
Scientifically-based Research vs. Evidence-based Practices  
SLANT Acronym  
Stages of a Temper Tantrum  
State of America's Children 2008 Children's Defense Fund
Strengths of Adolescents  
Survival Guide for New Teachers  
Teacher's Checklist for Well Paced Lesson B. Braaten
Tested Tips for IEP Meetings  
Tips for Bus Drivers S. Braaten
Tips for Preventing Problems S. Braaten
Tips to Reduce Tension Burnout S. Braaten
Tips for Setting Up Student Success B. Braaten
Tips from Teachers Vanderbilt University
Top Ten Goals for Students with EBD B. Morse
Transition - Seven Quality Indicators  
Values Check for Behavior Change Program  
Verbal Intervention  
Ways to Maintain Student Discipline Unknown
What Makes Kids Care  
What We Know About Children  
When Teachers Should Refer Students to Mental Health  
Why We Don't Hear Others  
Without Data All We Have Are Assumptions Crocket & Yell
Young Children & Caregivers Need J. Kinzer

 

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Assessment

TOPIC SOURCE
Assessment is Salvia & Ysseldyke
Assessment Cycle  
Assessment of Competence  
Assessment Summary Form  
Assessment vs. Diagnosis  
Basic Assessment Concepts for Teachers and Administrators ERIC
Behavioral Objectives  
BOS Objectives and Skillstreaming Lessons  
BOS Monitoring Record Example  
CEC on Response to Intervention CEC
Childrens Social Competence Checklist  
Collecting Data  
Discipline as a School Problem - 1915  
Disturbed Behavior and the School F.H. Wood
Ecological Checklist  
Examples of Educational Need Statements  
Glossary of Measurement Terms ERIC
Goals of Placement  
IDEA Protection in Evaluation Procedures  
Important Assessment Vocabulary  
Informal Assessment Types  
Key Assessment Requirements of IDEA  
Myself  
Pre-placement Psychoeducational Evaluation  
Purpose of Assessment W. Morse
Reporting Assessment Data at the Team-IEP Meeting  
Screening Process  
Standard Behavior Chart Advantages  
Standard Behavior Chart Glossary  
Strength-based Assessment  
Teacher Standards for Assessment  
Terms Used in Individual Standardized Tests  
Three Kinds of Assessment  
Too - Students with EBD S. Braaten
USA Incarcerates More People  
Using the BOS  
What are Educational Indicators?  
What is the Best Way to Assess Young Children?  
Youth at Risk Screening Questionnaire  

 

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Behavior Reinforcement

TOPIC SOURCE
101 Ways to Praise  
25 Points on Giving Points S. Braaten
275+ Ways to Say Good Job  
Can You Praise Your Child Too Much?  
Contract Form S. Braaten
Expectations  
Four Kinds of Intermittent Reinforcement Schedules  
Happy Face Award  
Identifying Reinforcers  
Negative Reinforcement - Graphic  
Nine Steps to Choosing Reinforcers  
No Thanks  
Positive Reinforcement - Graphic  
Positive Reinforcement for Staff  
Principles of Behavior Change S. Braaten
R+ for Elementary Unknown
Reinforcement Terms  
Some Words of Encouragement for Children  
Use of Praise S. Braaten

 

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Behavior Reduction

TOPIC SOURCE
10 Things We Know About Corporal Punishment  
10 Questions to Ask Before You Punish  
Alternatives to Punishment  
Challenging Behavior & Effective Discipline  
Discipline and Punishment  
Discipline as a School Problem 1915  
Discipline Techniques that Often Backfire  
On Ignoring Extinction  
Physical Intervention Last Resort  
Principals for the Appropriate Punishment  
Procedural Alternative for Decreasing Behaviors  
Punishment Effects  
Reasonable Discipline  
Reasons for Use of Time-Out Room  
Restraint Rules  
Some Forms of Time Out  
Spanking - Fact and Fiction  
Time-Out  
Timeout Issues  
Ways to Reduce  
Ways to Reduce Problem Behaviors II  

 

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Goals and Problem Solving

TOPIC SOURCE
Always Done It That Way  
Ask Yourself  
Elements of Productive Change  
Function of Daily Goals S. Braaten
Functional Life Skills MCIE
Goal Attainment Scale S. Braaten
Goal Attainment Scale 2 S. Braaten
Goals Einstein
Goal Setting  
If You Want to Achieve a Goal  
Keep Goals Focused  
The Problem Is Rubin
Problem Solving Behaviors  
Problem Solving One-by-One R. Sloma
Problem Solving Team  
SMART Goals C. Snyder
Steps to Establishing Goals Lemke Pratt & Graeve
Vision  
Vision Without Action  
Vision Without Execution Einstein

 

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Self-Control

TOPIC SOURCE
Do Children Understand How Feelings Affect School Performance J. Amsterlaw
School Rules Self-Control Instruction  
Self-Control Training Types  
Self-Monitoring  
SODA Acronym  
STAR Acronym  
Steps for Creating a Self-Control Program Friedrich
Teach Your Child Self-Control  
Teaching Students to Self-Manage Their Behavior  
Types of Self-Control Strategies Friedrich
Whatever We Learn To Do W. Bennett

 

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Social Skills & Aggression Replacement Techniques (START)

TOPIC SOURCE
4 Key Areas in Developing Effective Social Skills Programs  
7 Deadly Myths About Raising Moral Kids  
Anger Contracting  
Anger Control Chain  
Anger Diary  
Anger is Only One Letter Short of Danger  
Anyone Can Get Angry  
Behavior Management - Social Skills Deficits  
CALM - Acronym  
Characteristics of Youth Who Caused School Deaths  
Childhood Aggression - Where Does it Come From?  
Competency & Performance  
Controlling Emotions Tiger Woods
Developing Social Competence for All Students  
Developing Social Competence in Children  
Developing Social Skills P. Patten
Do Children Understand How Feelings Affect School Performance  
Empathy Education D. Levine
Focus on Change ERIC
He Who Angers You  
He Who Cannot Change His Thought Anwar el-Sadat
Help Young Children Control Anger and Handle Disappointment  
Helping Young Children Deal with Anger M. Marion
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development  
Mental Health in Schools - A Definition  
Moral Courage R. Miller
Moral Reasoning Is About  
Most Important Things to Remember About Getting Mad  
PBIS & START S. Braaten
Peer Influences & Positive Cognitive Restructuring  
Physiology of Anger  
Potential Warning Signs for Violence APA
Practice H. Drummond
Practice is the Best of All Instructors  
Prepare  
Promotion of Social Awareness R. Selman
Psychological Skills  
Psychology of Anger  
Rage Ratings  
Rethink - Institute for Mental Health Initiatives  
Skill 51 - Evaluating Your Program  
Skillstreaming Curriculum - All Levels  
Skillstreaming Trainer Skills  
Social Emotional Competence M.M. Wood
Stages of Learning  
Teaching Social Skills  
Types of Group Management Problems  
USA Incarcerates More People  
Violence poster  
When to Teach Social Skills  
When You Are Angry or Frustrated H. Jackson
   
START TRAINING RESOURCES:  
Supporting Research  
Curriculum-based Resources S. Braaten

 

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For Families

TOPIC SOURCE
5 Principles of Effective Parenting  
10 Tips for Avoiding the Land Mines of the Perfect Parent World  
14 Ways to Show Kids You Love Them  
About Discipline & Developing Self-Control  
Adolescence-Ping Pong Stage of Life M. Hartwell-Walker
Appreciation Menu  
Behavior Management Ideas - Tips for Parents  
Children's Bedtime Mayo Clinic
Controlling Your Emotions and Behavior When Your Child is Disrespectful J. Maag
Daddy  
Dealing with an Angry Child Harrelson
Difference Between Discipline and Punishment CEED
Don't Take it Out on Your Kids K. Kersey
Even Eagles Need A Push D. McNally
How to Have a Better Relationship with Your Teen  
How to Punish Without Punishing Yourself  
Ideas for Children's Self-Praise S. Beaver
Keys to Parenting - Teach Self Control U of Kentucky
Memo from Your Child  
Parenting Mistakes Are Usually Survivable and Forgivable E. Krull
Parents  
Rewards, Punishments or Threats  
Ten Signs Need Different Kind of Education  
Tips for Preventing Problems  
Tying Education to Future Goals  
Went to a Party, Mom  
What We Know About Children  
When a Teacher and Child Don't Get Along  
Why Spanking is a Bad Idea  

 

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Forms

TOPIC SOURCE
Developing an Implementation Plan S. Braaten
Do Sheet  
Incident Report S. Braaten
Notes and Things to Do  
Program Plan Guide  
School-Comm Coordinated Plan Form  

 

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Quotation Posters

TOPIC SOURCE
Advice  
All Students Can Learn W. Spady
All That is Necessary  
As A Child Lives Today J. Dewey
The Brain and Learning K. Wesson
Children Learn What They Live D.L. Nolte
Children P. Diller
Choose Your Friends Anonymous
Civilization J. James
Collaboration M. Mead
Competitive Greatness  
Courage  
Courage to Teach  
Dangerous Society M.L. King, Jr.
Degrees of Ones Knowledge B. Russell
Each Time A Person Stands Up R. Kennedy
Education Is Indeed Necessary J.A. Comenius
Excellence Aristotle
Experience Is Not A. Huxley
For Every Complex Problem H.L. Menken
From the Standpoint of the Child J. Dewey
Future of Any Society W. Damon
Great Works S. Johnson
The Greatest Good  
The Human Race B. Russell
I Am An Optimist W. Churchill
Insanity Is A. Einstein
Kids Who Are Different  
Knowing Goethe
Knowledge Is A. Toffler
Let Me Be A Free Man Chief Joseph
The Limits of My Language L. Wittgenstein
Manhood At Its Best Confucius
Mentally Deficient Children 1900 G.E. Shuttleworth
The Mind is Restless Bhagavad-Gita
Never Tell People How G. Patton
Nonviolence M.L. King, Jr.
No One Can Make You Feel Inferior E. Roosevelt
Normal Is  
Of Offering More Than We Can Deliver Anonymous
On LRE W. Morse
On Optimism Dalai Lama
On Simplicity A.N. Whitehead
One Ant At A Picnic  
Our Youth Socrates
Personal Approach H. Ginott
Power of Accurate Observation  
Reach Real Peace Ghandi
Rights of Children  
Science B.F. Skinner
Service Is the Rent M. Edelman Wright
Start With What They Know Lau Tau
Teachers Are  
Teaching is Difficult W. Glaser
The Time Is Always Right M.L. King, Jr.
There Never Was A Time  
Through Violence M.L. King, Jr.
Touch Lives of Children  
Toward A Kindlier Society B. Spock
Value A. Einstein
What Am I  
What We Do Ghandi
What You Live  
When You Cannot Measure It  
When You Plant Lettuce  

 

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Tips for Presenters

TOPIC SOURCE
10 Rules to Keep Your Audience Awake  
10 Ways to Make Your Teaching More Effective  
14 Principles-Adult Learners Laws of Learning  
Giving a Great Presentation  
Making Academic Presentations Effectively  
Presentation Dos and Don'ts  
Presenting a Poster Session  

 

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Conference & Presentation Handouts 

 

Most conference and presentation handouts are now located at the BICA Discussion Web Site.  If you attended a conference or presentation, visit www.behavioralinstitute.info to access the post-event discussion site and materials (use the password provided to you at the event).  If you did not attend an event and you wish to access materials, please contact us.

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Social Skills Training @ Prince Georges County Public Schools (Feb. 2009) - Sheldon Braaten

 

The START Curriculum - Sheldon Braaten

 

Using Assessment Data for Placement - Sheldon Braaten

 

Social Skills Training presentation for YIPA - 9/7/07 (handout - pdf) - Sheldon Braaten

 

Assessment and Planning Variables for Placement of Students with EBD (handout pdf) - Sheldon Braaten

Assessment to Intervention - Midwest Symposium Handout 2005 (S. Braaten)

 

BOS Objectives and Skillstreaming Lessons (Dr. Sheldon Braaten)

 

Co-teaching When Students with EBD are Involved...Things Don't Always Go As Planned - June Robinson

 

Disciplining Students with Disabilities (handout) - Mitchell Yell

 

Effective Programs Overview (presentation) - Martha Simpson

 

Evidence-based Education (handout) - Mitchell Yell

 

Evidence-based Education (presentation pdf) - Mitchell Yell

 

Evidence-based Practice - Town Hall Meeting - Susan Albrecht

 

He's Just Being Bad (handout) - Theresa Shattuck

 

IDEIA (presentation pdf) - Mitchell Yell

 

IEPs (handout) - Mitchell Yell

 

In Search of A Definition for Level Systems (10-pg handout) - Sheldon Braaten

 

K2: A Promising Reading Intervention (presentation pdf) - June Robinson

 

Latina Girls (presentation notes) - Sandi Lindgren

Latina Girls Resources (handout) - Sandi Lindgren

 

Level Systems Handout (S. Braaten)

 

Life Impact Curriculum (TOC handout) - William Rhodes

 

Practical Strategies to Gather Info for Decision-Making and Evaluation (S. Braaten)

 

Preventing Delinquency (slide show) - Christine Christle

 

Providing A Positive School Environment (handout pdf) - Eleanor Guetzloe

 

RTI PANEL: RTI Behavior Intervention-Marsh

 

RTI PANEL: BEP Summary -Zurbuch

 

Teaching Urban Learners with and At Risk for Academic/Behavior Failure (handout) - Gwen Cartledge and Handout references - Gwen Cartledge

 

Using Art with Troubled Youth (handout) - Karenlee Alexander

 

Using Skill-Based Assessment to Develop Interventions for Children and Youth with Challenging Behaviors (Dr. Sheldon Braaten)

 

Using Strength-based Assessment to Make Eligibility and Placement Decisions for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (Dr. Sheldon Braaten)

 

Working with Families paper (E. Guetzloe)

 

Working with Parents - Lonna Moline

 

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