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How To Be "Sneaky Smart" With Elementary Classroom Management, Jeffery R. Craver

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Being “sneaky smart” is all about changing adult behavior, being flexible, being willing to problem solve, and being more skilled at ways to alter the environment & the positive supports that we can put into place. Evidenced-based strategies will be reviewed that educators can begin to implement immediately with students that fall in to all tiers. These strategies can be adapted for use in the home setting for parents as well. The "sneaky smart” approach is appropriate for any setting to increase compliance of both large groups of students & individual ones. These methods for being proactive in the classroom …

Transforming In-School Suspension Into A Positive Tool For Changing Behavior, Rosie N. Cooper-Neary, Sarah Harber

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

The presentation will provide an overview of a secondary in-school suspension program using a positive behavior intervention and supports model that includes an evidence-based social emotional behavior curriculum effective in targeting at-risk students. Structuring in-school suspension programs in a way that provides students with the means to change poor behaviors when presented with the opportunity to do so is a viable solution to classroom behavior problems plaguing secondary schools today. This presentation will be valuable to education leaders who desire to transform their ISS program into one that reduces recidivism rates and makes academics and behavior modification a priority. The …

The Lights Are Out And Nobody's Home - Renewing Positive Energy And Becoming Fully Present, Ann Vanbuskirk Dr., Kimberly B. Robinson

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

In an age of high demand and limited resources, exponential information flow through constant connection with technology, sensory overload and high stress, staff and caregiver burnout is increasing. More educators are leaving the field, and teacher retention is a significant challenge. In order to be positive in our intervention, it is critical for educators, therapists, administrators, parents and caregivers to recognize symptoms of fatigue and burnout, renew our own source of positive energy and be fully present in our work. This presentation will provide information on recognizing symptoms of burnout in self and others. Participants will engage in active learning …

Parents....An Invaluable "Link" To Student Success, Janice V. Mendence Ms., Lori Robinson, Angela West

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Research demonstrates the strong correlation between parental involvement and student achievement. This research, which involves studies that highlight the outcomes of parental involvement, will be presented. In addition, examples of parental involvement from tiers 1, 2, and 3 in the various PBIS systems in northwest Georgia will be given. Haralson County Schools will provide specific examples on how they have included not only parents, but also community stakeholders in their quest to increase participation. They will discuss specific strategies on how to engage parent/community stakeholders on a limited budget. Participants will walk away with ideas and strategies that have been …

Demystifying Asperger's And Absolutism, Richard Kaplan, Simon Huebner

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Parents of high-functioning autistics will be able to guide their children to better resolve conflicts, socialize, and improve executive functioning.

High-functioning autism-also known as Asperger's-has been characterized by a lack of personal success and poor social skills. This is in reality the manifestation of absolute thinking. Absolute conclusions, judgments, and rules that have been heard, taught, and experienced from early childhood become unequivocal truths with compounding consequences over time unless directly engaged. The poor social skills and/or objectives, narrow interests, repetitive behaviors, speech and/or selective communication, as well as unique rules and habits associated with HFA are symptoms of absolute …

From Chaos To Calm, Rhonda Harris, Kelly Petaccio

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

A hands on session demonstrating and discussing the most engaging strategies for addressing emotional and social concerns of students for Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions. An overview of an effective student referral process, evidence based interventions like Positive Action & Second Step as well as tried and true tools such as Zones of Regulation, Social Thinking, Mindfulness and creative interventions.

Pbis-Our Journey (On A Quest For The Best), Charlotte S. Flores Mrs., Candace F. Mcghee

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This is the story of our journey from being a school where students’ behaviors were controlling us to being a school where learning is our focus. Now students are being taught school wide expected behaviors, rewarded for demonstrating these behaviors, so that teachers can focus on teaching the standards. Ethel W. Kight is a Title 1 school serving a diverse student body in LaGrange, GA where we aim to include our parents and other stakeholders on this journey. Come learn how the EKES staff changed their mindset and continue to strive to assist our Kight Knights on their Quest for …

Chaos To Calm: Three Behavior Management Strategies For "Complex" Students, Elaine Taylor-Klaus, Diane Dempster

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Supporting and teaching children with complex challenges can be a daunting task. Teachers want to inspire their students to reach their full academic potential. But when children struggle with learning – when they fail to hit typical milestones commensurate with their peers – their challenges can raise serious obstacles for teachers in the classroom, and damage children’s self-esteem.

While behavioral management systems have been proven to be effective for classroom behavior modification, challenges with implementation prevent teachers from consistently feeling successful in using them. Teachers may know what to do in theory, but they struggle with how to make it …

Barriers And Solutions To Schoolwide Pbis In High Schools, Deborah A. Keane

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This session will address implementation of PBIS in the high school context. Topics for discussion include the unique nuances of high school PBIS, what the data tells us, and enhancing student outcomes through PBIS. Discussion will include interventions in advanced tiers that have demonstrated success in the high school to reduce drop-out rates and improve outcomes to include College and Career Readiness.

Behavior Skills Training To Build Professional Capacity, Janet I. Goodman, Yayoi Kitta, Kimberly Waldrop

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Ongoing professional learning is one of the critical elements to promote professional capacity. Administrators and intervention staff need a way to systematically and efficiently build capacity across all school staff as educators are trained in PBIS for all students and individualized behavioral strategies for students. Behavior Skills Training (BST) (Breidenbach, 1984) is an evidence-based training approach that is effective and efficient, and more importantly, that is generally accepted by trainees because of high engagement and follow up coaching. This systematic procedure provides participants the opportunity to engage in instruction, watch the trainer model a skill, practice and increase their own …

Self-Management & Social Skills Strategies To Support Student Success, Tom Clees, Lacey Ray

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will describe research-based self-management and social skills instructional strategies to promote social and academic skills for students with disabilities, including self-recording strategies designed to facilitate academic productivity and social skills instruction designed to increase compliance to teacher requests. These strategies are pragmatic and can be used by school/clinical personnel, as well as parents.

Automatic Identification And Ranking Of Knowledge Sources, Pedro Gonnet, Victor Cărbune

Defensive Publications Series

While authoring content, users can benefit from being able to provide citations and to verify statements that include facts. This disclosure describes techniques described to provide citations and/or corrections for user text, e.g., in a document, within an authoring application. Trained machine learning models are used to generate a feature vector based on user text which is matched to feature vectors of known information sources. Citations and corrections are provided based on identifying reliable sources such as academic publications, reliable news sources, etc. along with a visual indicator of the quality of the source.

Secure Web Proxy Resistant To Probing Attacks, Benjamin Schwartz

Defensive Publications Series

Secure web proxies are popular for sending internet traffic via alternative paths. Access to a secure web proxy is typically password protected. A malicious third party that does not know a username or password can detect a secure web proxy server by attempting a connection and observing a distinctive response from the proxy server, e.g., an HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required response. Traffic from clients that utilize web proxy servers that are detected in this manner can then be blacklisted.

The techniques of this disclosure enable secure web proxies that are resistant to probing attacks. The output of distinctive signals …

Time-Delayed Casual Telepresence Interaction, Curtis Galloway, David Karam

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to use a system of audiovisual equipment to aid in facilitating casual interactions between workers of different offices and time zones through time-shifted playback of brief video clips of actions by workers from common spaces of one office on a screen at another office. Live actions to share in video clips are determined based on whether a user interacts with the camera. The video clips are played back in other locations at a different time in the day based on time zone differences between locations.

The Ticker, December 4, 2017

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Sjsu Erfa Board Minutes, December 4, 2017, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

SJSU ERFA Minutes

SJSU ERFA Executive Board Minutes

December 4, 2017

Campus Assembly Minutes 12/04/2017, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 08, December 4, 2017, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 29, December 4, 2017, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

An Analysis Of Factors Leading To The Success Of Female Superintendents In P-12 Public Schools In Arkansas, Juanita Samantha Mitchell

Theses and Dissertations from 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the history of women in the superintendency and the best practices that they have used to weather challenging conflicts to remain in the position. The research question that guided this study was: To what do successful female superintendents in Arkansas attribute their success? This qualitative research ascertained the factors needed for female superintendents in Arkansas to have long-lasting careers in that role, if they desire. Creswell (2012) recommends that for qualitative research data analysis, the researcher should arrange and structure the data, code the data, and represent the data. The data collected …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet December 2017, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The December 2017 Monthly packet includes the December agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held November 6, 2017.

The Statesman, V. 61, I. 14, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 61, i. 14;

The Indiana Statesman, December 4, 2017, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Calm before the storm: Students unwind at Campus Spa before finals week; Disney sues Redbox to stop digital movie sales; Wintrich's UConn speech was designed to inflame; Uber's top lawyer tells staff to stop spying on people

Commonwealth Times 2017-12-04

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (12/04/2017), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from December 4, 2017 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 53, Issue 14. Cover story: "Union holds high hopes after strike". Editor-in-Chief: Zoe Eitel

Edson Arneault V. Kevin O\'Toole

2017 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Improving Transitions In Care For People With Dementia: The Cared Tool, Yuwen Deng, Jamie Bisset, Silk Lim, Maryssa Edwards

Community Engaged Learning Final Projects

Transitions in Care are challenging for people with dementia due to impairments in communication and disorientation from being in a foreign environment. Transitions in care have lead to incidents of unnecessary physical and chemical restraints of this vulnerable population. To investigate how to optimize care transitions, qualitative descriptive information was collected through three personal interviews to gain a broader understanding of mechanisms of care transitions in London, ON. After conducting interviews and literature review, the CARED Tool was developed. The CARED Tool promotes social inclusion of patients with dementia through recognizing that people with dementia have complex needs, thereby allowing …

The Tiger Vol. 112 Issue 10 2017-12-04, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers 2017

No abstract provided.

Fort Hays State University Faculty Senate Minutes, December 4, 2017, Fhsu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Jewell Discusses Research At Data Society Workshop, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.