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Teacher-Student Relationships: Strengthening The Impact Of Pbis On Climate, Kate Mcphee, Kiarra Givhan, Emily N. Srisarajivakul, Vanessa Ramirez, Ella Taylor, Kris Varjas, Catherine Perkins, Joel Meyers

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Researchers have emphasized the importance of teacher-student relationships (TSRs), showing that the quality of these relationships can have significant, short and long-term effects on student outcomes and school climate (Baker, Grant & Morlock, 2008; Guess & Bowling, 2013; Hamre & Pianta, 2001). While School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) also has positive effects on school climate (Bradshaw, Waasdorp & Leaf, 2015), little research has been done to examine how SW-PBIS and TSRs intersect to influence student outcomes and school climate. This presentation will address the integration of these two factors as perceived by practitioners responsible for implementing SW-PBIS.

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Engaging All Pbis Partners Through A Quality Roll Out, Jessica E. Dunn, Lyndsey Whisner

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will outline a structure to assist schools in building capacity for staff members as the school begins to implement PBIS. The presenters will provide examples of how their local schools prepared the faculty to implement PBIS. The presenters will also provide specific examples of how their local schools involved home and community atmospheres in the implementation of PBIS. They will discuss the direct, positive impact seen as a result of PBIS incorporation across all atmospheres. Audiences, including schools, parents, and communities, will be able to take away ideas to successfully implement PBIS expectations, matrices, and a reward system. …

A Person's A Person No Matter How Small - Understanding The Role Of Temperament In Working With Toddlers And Young Children, Kimberly B. Robinson, Ann Vanbuskirk Dr.

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Early childhood and educational research have indicated that a young child’s temperament is predictive of success in school and adulthood. A child’s temperament has the potential to impact not only their interpretation of life events, but can also influence the activities that they choose and how adults respond to and interact with them. Child temperament research has identified three widely known profiles based on nine dimensions of behavior: “difficult”, “easy”, and “slow to warm up”. The purpose of this presentation is to provide information about child temperament and the ways in which adults can use positive relational interventions to teach …

The Road To Self-Improvement; A Mother And Son Story, Eren K. Denburg Niederhoffer

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Eren Denburg Niederhoffer and his Mother Dorian Denburg will discuss:
-Eren's story of his pursuit of self-improvement as a man on the Autism Spectrum
-The lessons he learned along the way while struggling with autism
-What he has accomplished as a man with autism
-What families of children and young adults with and without autism in their family can stand to benefit through Eren and Dorian's story and advice.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sustainability Of Tier 1 Implementation And Parent Involvement, Sherry Ferguson, Angelique Mitchell

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will cover sustainability of Tier 1 implementation of a PBIS program at an elementary school plus ways to increase parent involvement. The presentation will cover student and teacher rewards and incentives, PBIS committee incentives, behavior logs, flow charts on classroom managed behaviors vs office managed behaviors, PBIS core team committees and sub committees, funding sources for PBIS program, and ways to involve students. Examples of weekly PBIS topics, lesson plans and parent brochures will also be presented. Ways to involved parents in your PBIS program through workshops lunch and learns, and surveys will also be covered. Information for …

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.

Building Positive Relationships Through Team Building, Paul Parker

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

It is vital for us in the education profession to develop leaders. It is my belief that we have to prepare our young people for the challenges and demands they will inevitably face in today’s society. Our students must be equipped with the knowledge and character needed to run Fortune 500 companies, teach the future generation of scholars, and lead this nation back to its worldwide power. In order for that to happen, they need great models. Our youth have to have the best teachers that we can offer. Based upon my experience, I can assist with the selection and …

Creating An Inclusive Climate For Students With Developmental Disabilities (As/Asd), Stephanie C. Holmes

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

What is inclusion? Is it academic? Is it social? It is both! Students with developmental delays such autism spectrum are lacking true social inclusion in elementary schools. How do we get there? Who needs training? Teachers? Administrators? Peers? Parents? Creating a positive socially inclusive climate for students on the spectrum is a collaborative effort. Elementary school years are the foundation for students forming their image of self as a student and a friend. It is crucial to help these students achieve a sense of community and belonging beyond the mainstream academic classroom to a true social inclusion of the school …

Finding Your Zen: Mindfulness In The Classroom, Stephen Fusco

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Meditation, mindfulness and transcendental activities are gaining popularity in today's society. There are "apps" to take a five minute meditation from the day and there are numerous studies showing the benefits of mindful practices in everyday life. This session is dedicated to teachers, parents and advocates looking for ways to incorporate mindfulness practices into their daily lives.

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.

Supporting Mechanistic Reasoning In Domain-Specific Contexts, Paul J. Weinberg

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Mechanistic reasoning is an epistemic practice central within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Although there has been some work on mechanistic reasoning in the research literature and standards documents, much of this work targets domain-general characterizations of mechanistic reasoning; this study provides domain-specific illustrations of mechanistic reasoning. The data in this study comes from the Assessment of Mechanistic Reasoning Project (AMRP) (Weinberg, 2012), designed using item response theory modeling to diagnose individuals’ mechanistic reasoning about systems of levers. Such a characterization of mechanistic reasoning illuminates what is easy and difficult about this form of reasoning, within the subdomain of …

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.

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.

12.04.17., Y. Monreal

ASWC Agendas

No abstract provided.

Gop Congress: Faith Over Facts; Politics Over Policy, Evan Barrett

Highlands College

A newspaper column by Evan Barrett.

Published newspaper columns written by Evan Barrett on this topic, which vary somewhat in content from this commentary, appeared in the following publications:

Livingston Enterprise, December 4, 2017

Montana Standard, December 6, 2017

Havre Daily News, December 11, 2017

Helena Independent Record, December 13, 2017

The Missoulian, December 13, 2017

Campus Assembly Minutes 12/04/2017, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

Consultative Minutes 12/04/2017, Consultative Committee

Consultative Committee

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.

So What?: Writing And Tutoring Intentionally, Cassidy Gummersall

Tutor's Column

In my first semester of tutoring, I have seen papers about forestry services, Rihanna as an emblem of dominance, the nutritional chemistry of an English muffin, NASA funding, and the endangered Peruvian vicugna. I have worked with students writing genres like persuasive research essays, personal narratives, lab reports, and even philosophy short-answer midterm responses. When confronted with papers that have requirements or subjects where I am far from an expert, I have learned to ask, “Why did you select this topic?” and “How would you want your audience to be changed by reading your paper?” These questions function to alleviate …

Type 1 Diabetes Alters Lipid Handling And Metabolism In Human Fibroblasts And Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells, Albert R. Jones Iv, Emily L. Coleman, Nicholas R. Husni, Jude T. Deeney, Forum Raval, Devin Steenkamp, Hans Dooms, Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, Barbara E. Corkey

Clinical and Translational Science Faculty Publications

Triggers of the autoimmune response that leads to type 1 diabetes (T1D) remain poorly understood. A possibility is that parallel changes in both T cells and target cells provoke autoimmune attack. We previously documented greater Ca²⁺ transients in fibroblasts from T1D subjects than non-T1D after exposure to fatty acids (FA) and tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα). These data indicate that metabolic and signal transduction defects present in T1D can be elicited ex vivo in isolated cells. Changes that precede T1D, including inflammation, may activate atypical responses in people that are genetically predisposed to T1D. To identify such cellular differences …

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.

Ion Parallel Closures, Jeong-Young Ji, Hankyu Q. Lee, Eric D. Held

All Physics Faculty Publications

Ion parallel closures are obtained for arbitrary atomic weights and charge numbers. For arbitrary collisionality, the heat flow and viscosity are expressed as kernel-weighted integrals of the temperature and flow-velocity gradients. Simple, fitted kernel functions are obtained from the 1600 parallel moment solution and the asymptotic behavior in the collisionless limit. The fitted kernel parameters are tabulated for various temperature ratios of ions to electrons. The closures can be used conveniently without solving the kinetic equation or higher order moment equations in closing ion fluid equations.

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.