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Improving Outcomes for Students with Challenging Behaviors

3-Part MIEBD Satellite Conference Series

Fall 2003

Minnesota

 

This series was broadcast as part of the Minnesota Institute of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and is presented for training of personnel in the fields of education, mental health and juvenile justice and families.

 

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Life Space Crisis Intervention

Instructor: Dr. Kris Melloy

 

This session describes how the "conflict cycle" functions in many crises and how to interrupt the cycle in a non-punitive way. The focus is on skills for assessing different types of crises and approaches for their de-escalation and resolution.

 

Practical Strategies to Gather Information for Decision-Making and Evaluation

Instructors: Dr. Sheldon Braaten and Nanette (Floyd) Yurecko

 

This session provides practical research-based strategies for gathering and interpreting data to make intervention decisions, as well as providing the means to evaluate and report outcomes for individual students and programs.

 

Practical Strategies to Gather Info for Decision-Making and Evaluation handout

 

Teacher to Teacher: Promising Practices in EBD

Instructors: MIEBD Mentor Teachers: Peg Beck, Nancy Busse, Cindy Creviston-Lerud, Lois Demers

 

The Positive Behavior Support (PBS) model has emerged over the past decade as one of the most promising practices for students with challenging behavior. Veteran special education teacher/mentors share their effective classroom strategies.

 

Sponsored by:  Minnesota Department of Education, Special Education Policy Unit

Coordinated by:  Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents

 

DVD production made possible through funding from MDE from the federal awards entitled Special Education Grants to States CFDA 84.027A and the Special Education Program Improvement CFDA 84.323A.