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TOPICS

Assessment

Conference & Presentation Handouts

For Families

Goals

Quotation Posters

Social Skills & Aggression Replacement Techniques (START)

Tip Sheets

Use of Reinforcement

Behavior Reduction

Tip Sheets

Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse

10 Best Practices for Schools (NAMI)

10 Commandments for Teachers of Handicapped Students

10 Myths of Mental Illness

11 Principles for Teaching in Urban Schools (G. Cartledge)

12 Keys to Successful Behavioral Improvement

12 Principles of Re-education (N. Hobbs)

15 Ten Commandments of LD

20 Tips to Promote Self Esteem (R. Lavoie)

50 Behaviors Which May Be Learned Through Group Processes (S. Braaten)

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

Answer - Author Unknown

Attributes of Successful Teachers

Autism 101 for Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse

Basic Principles About the Nature of Human Beings

Behavior Labeling

Building Self Esteem

Ceremony and Ritual (N. Hobbs)

Characteristics of Effective Teachers of EBD (S. Braaten)

Children with Emotional Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System

Common Passive Attention Misbehaviors - R. Driekurs

Crisis Intervention-Four Steps

Criterion for Useful Theories

EBD Components chart (S. Braaten)

Effective Programs

Essential Intervention Plan Elements (S. Braaten)

Facilitating Feedback (S. Braaten)

From At-Risk to Excellence - Principles for Practice

Five Cs of Positive Youth Development

How to Escalate a Crisis

Incident Report (S. Braaten)

Intervention Hierarchy (S. Braaten)

Judicious Discipline

Key Maker (R. Strandlund)

Mentor

My 10 Commandments For Adults in Kids Lives

Peer Conflict Mediation Handout

Perspectives

Planting Time - How to Insure a Harvest of Good Students

Positive School Climate (E. Guetzloe)

Practice of Universal Education

Practices That Put Students Down

Problemology (Vorrath & Brendtro)

Research-based Effective Teaching Principles

Rules for Making Rules

School-Comm Coordinated Plan Form

Strengths of Adolescents

Teacher's Checklist for Well Paced Lesson (B. Braaten)

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)

Transition - Seven Quality Indicators

Values Check for Behavior Change Program

Verbal Intervention

Ways to Maintain Student Discipline - Author Unknown

What Makes Kids Care

Why We Don't Hear Others

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Use of Reinforcement

101 Ways to Praise

Can You Praise Your Child Too Much?

Contract

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 - Author Unknown

Goals

Vision Without Action

Vision Without Execution - Einstein

Goal Attainment Scale (S. Braaten)

Goal Attainment Scale 2 (S. Braaten)

Goals - Einstein

Function of Daily Goals (S. Braaten)

Keep Goals Focused

SMART Goals - C Snyder

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Quotation Posters

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

Choose Your Friends - Anon

Civilization - Jennifer 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. Menkin

From the Standpoint of the Child - J. Dewey

Future of Any Society - Wm Damon

Great Works - S Johnson

The Greatest Good

The Human Race - B Russell

I Am An Optimist - W Churchill

Kids Who Are Different

Knowing - Goethe

Knowledge Is - A Toffler

LEADER

Let Me Be A Free Man - Chief Joseph

Nonviolence - Martin Luther King Jr.

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior - E. Roosevelt

Normal Is

Our Youth - Socrates

On LRE - William Morse

On Optimism - Dalai Lama

On Simplicity - A.N. Whitehead

Personal Approach - H Ginott

Power of Acurate Observation

The Problem Is - Rubin

Problem Solving One-by-One - R Sloma

Reach Real Peace - Gandhi

Rights of Children

Science - B.F. Skinner

Service Is the Rent - M. Wright Edelman

Teaching is Difficult - W. Glaser

The Time Is Always Right - Martin Luther King Jr.

There Never Was A Time

Touch Lives of Children

Toward A Kindlier Society - B. Spock

Value - Einstein

What We Do - Ghandi

What You Live

When You Plant Lettuce

Young Children & Caregivers Need - J Knitzer

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Social Skills & Aggression Replacement Techniques (START)

7 Deadly Myths About Raising Moral Kids

Anger Control Chain

Anger Diary

Anger is Only One Letter Short of Danger

Anyone Can Get Angry

Behavior Management - Social Skills Deficits

Characteristics of Youth Who Caused School Deaths

Competency & Performance

Controlling Emotions - Tiger Woods

Developing Social Competence for All Students

Empathy Education - D Levine

Focus on Change

He Who Angers You

He Who Cannot Change His Thought - Anwar el-Sadat

Helping Young Children Deal with Anger - M Marion

Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development

Moral Reasoning Is About

Most Important Things to Remember About Getting Mad

Potential Warning Signs for Violence - APA

Practice

Problem Solving Behaviors

Promotion of Social Awareness - R Selman

Psychological Skills

Rethink - Institute for Mental Health Initiatives

Skill 51 - Evaluating Your Program

Stages of Learning

Teaching Social Skills

USA Incarcerates More People

When You Are Angry or Frustrated

Violence poster

Supporting Research

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Assessment

Assessment is - Salvia & Ysseldyke

Assessment Cycle

Assessment of Competence

Assessment Summary Form

Assessment vs. Diagnosis

Behavioral Objectives

BOS Objectives and Skillstreaming Lessons

BOS Monitoring Record Example

CEC on Response to Intervention

Collecting Data

Disturbed Behavior and the School - F H Wood Ecological Checklist

Goals of Placement

IDEA Protection in Evaluation Procedures

Informal Assessment Types

Myself

Pre-placement Psychoeducational Evaluation

Screening Process

Strength-based Assessment

Teacher Standards for Assessment

Three Kinds of Assessment

Too - Students with EBD - S. Braaten

Using the BOS

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For Families

14 Ways to Show Kids You Love Them

Appreciation Menu

Behavior Management Ideas - Tips for Parents

Daddy

Difference Between Discipline and Punishment

Even Eagles Need A Push - D. McNally

Memo from Your Child

Parents

Ten Signs Need Different Kind of Education

Tips for Preventing Problems

Went to a Party, Mom

What We Know About Children

Why Spanking is a Bad Idea

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Behavior Reduction

Alternatives to Punishment

Challenging Behavior & Effective Discipline

Discipline and Punishment

Discipline Techniques that Often Backfire

On Ignoring Extinction

Physical Intervention

Principals for the Appropriate Punishment

Procedural Alternative for Decreasing Behaviors

Reasonable Discipline

Reasons for Use of Time-Out Room

Ways to Reduce Problem Behaviors II

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Conference & Presentation Handouts

click to select handout by conference

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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