Behavior Management and Discipline Workgroup

Chair: Carol Massanari

Purpose

Positive behavior and positive school climate support and enhance learning. Time and energy spent on discipline is time and energy taken away from instruction. As schools recognize the relationship of behavior to learning and as AYP data brings greater attention to graduation and drop-out rates, there is an increased interest in and need for information and support for implementing positive behavioral interventions and support.  States have identified issues and challenges specific to behavior and discipline as an ongoing priority for collective focus and activity.

This workgroup is a community of practice through which staffs from the various MPRRC states can share knowledge and experience, seek advice from states with similar issues, and hear about up-to-date research and practice.  Regular conference calls and periodic face-to-face meetings provide a forum for generating information and knowledge state staffs can use in addressing issues specific to social behavior and discipline.

Identified Goals

1. State staff will connect, as needed, with other staff across the region to share ideas and solutions regarding effective strategies for improving programs for students with behavioral and emotional problems
2. State staff will receive information from experts on effective practices (i.e., research-based) for addressing school-based issues related to behavior and discipline
3. State staff will use ideas and strategies shared by other SEA staff to design statewide, sustainable improvement initiatives.

General Behavior Management and Discipline Resources

• Beach Center on Disability
  
• Behavior Advisor
  
• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
  
• Center for Positive Behavior Support
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
  
• Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
• Family and Advocates Partnership for Education
  
• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• Florida PBS Project
  
• Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior
  
• National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice
  
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
  
• Oregon Social Learning Center
  
• Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
• Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
• Stop Bullying Now!
• Virtual Resource Center in Behavior Disorders

View the Member's List

Past Minutes and Materials

• Presenter: Reece Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Topic: Physical Restraint and Seclusion

• Handout
• Call Recording
  

• Presenter: Cindy Anderson, University of Oregon
• Topic: Functional Behavioral Assessment within a PBS system

• Handouts
• Call Segment One
• Call Segment Two

• Presenters: Lucille Eber, Collette Leuck, and Eugene Thompson
  
• Topic: Integrating Mental Health into Schoolwide Systems of PBS

• Mental Health and PBS

• Presenters: John Umbreit, Jolenea Ferro, and Carl Liaupsin
• Topic: Developing Local Capacity to Design Function-based Intervention
  

• Presenter: Elizabeth Kozleski
• Topic: Wazz up with Education:  Looking at Challenges, Contexts, and Complexities

• Educating Teachers

• Presenter: Heather Robbins
• Topic: Considerations for Implementing PBIS in Reservation Schools

• Considerations for Implementing PBIS in Reservation Schools

• Presenter: Rob Horner
• Topic: What's New in PBIS?

• Research Brief: A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing School-wide Positive Behavior Support
  
• School-wide Positive Behavior Support
  

• Presenter: Don Kincaid
• Topic: Data Collection and Management

• Using School-wide PBS Data at School, District, and State Levels

• Presenters: Mary Louise Hemmeter, Eric Mann, and Howard Muscott
• Topic: PBIS in Preschool

• Promoting Children’s Social and Emotional Development and Addressing Challenging Behavior
  

• Presenters: B/D Workgroup Members
  
• Topic: Key Learning from Chicago Forum
  

• Presenter: Loujenia Williams Bost
  
• Topic: Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions
  

• NDPC Brochure: "An Overview of Cognitive Behavioral Interventions"
  

• Presenters: Carl Smith, Suanna Wessendorf, and Steve Goodman
  
• Topic: Iowa and Michigan PBIS Initiatives
  

• Iowa Initiative on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
• Michigan's Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative
  

• Presenter: Carol Anderson
  
• Topic: IDEA 2004 - Early Intervening Services
  

• Utah's Behavior Initiatives and State Improvement Grant (NOTE: This file is about 17 Megabytes)
  

• Presenter: Elena Gallegos
  
• Topic: IDEA Revisions of Importance to Behavior and Discipline
  

• IDEA 2004: An Overview
  

• Presenter: Tim Lewis
  
• Topic: Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support and Related Initiatives
  

• School-wide Positive Behavior Support and Related Initiatives
  

• Presenter: Bob Eppler and Craig Rosen,
  
• Topic: PBS in Alternative (Institutional) Settings
  

• Positive Behavior Supports and the Iowa Juvenile Home
  

• Presenter: Steven W. Evans
  
• Topic: Mental Health in the Schools
  

• Establishing Effective School Mental Health Programs