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Connect With Coaches, Amy Henley, Maria Sherrod, Priscilla Ray, Hoofnagle Kelly

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Feeling overwhelmed? Don’t know where to begin on the road to PBIS implementation? Don’t let roadblocks and speed bumps slow down your journey. Connect with PBIS Coaches as we work together to merge the school, home and community connection. Join our team as we share practical steps to help you prepare for a successful journey on the road to implementation.

#Happyinhappyout - Improving School Climate Through Pbis Implementation, Caitlin Sabers, Lauren Girard, Aimee Range

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

An interactive session to guide participants in utilizing PBIS to foster a more positive school climate. PBIS Team members from Woodland Elementary School, a Fulton County Title 1 school with a diverse population, will describe our journey from 48% to 88% PBIS fidelity in just one school year. We will share how we increased staff implementation, parent involvement, and student support through PBIS. Participants will receive concrete strategies and resources to optimize their school climate.

We will provide examples of:

• Digital content curation for schoolwide behavior resources
• Behavior matrices for students, staff, and parents
• How to explicitly teach and reinforce …

Fba/Bip/Rti….You Now Want Me To Do What?, Charlotte S. Flores Mrs., Stacye Smith, Angelique Woodyard

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

How do you have teachers, parents, and students "buy in" to the Response to Intervention process? Participants will learn best practices for using the RTI process for behavior. They will learn specific ways to organize, implement with fidelity, and utilize creative strategies in order to have increased positive outcomes. We will look at how to use the Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plan to provide more effective interventions. We will also look at how to best collaborate with teachers, families and community resources to aid in this process. As always, this will come from a positive and research based …

Using Pbis Framework In Secure Facilities: Agency’S Journey Through Implementation), Janette A. Nihles, Lester R. Allen

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will provide insight into the use of PBIS in a secure juvenile facilities and how to utilize interventions to deal effectively with those youth who present as the most behaviorally challenged. Presenters will share experiences from multiple perspectives within DJJ facilities with different missions, age groups, and barriers.

Sources Of Strength: A Peer Lead Suicide Prevention Program., Amanda Schutz

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Sources of Strength is a peer lead upstream prevention program developed by Mark LoMurray in 1998. In 2009 it was listed on the National Best Practices Registry by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In 2011, Sources of Strength was listed on SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP). The overall mission of the program is to empower peer leaders and caring adults to impact their school climate through the power of promoting youth-adult connectedness and spreading messages of hope, help, and strength throughout their school. This is done through a deliberate …

Pbis In The Classroom: Teaching Expectations And Procedures, Tony Feldmann, Ben Moore

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Parents can utilize the information to set clear expectations at home or better understand how students are taught at schools that implement PBIS.

5 Tools You Can Use Tomorrow To Transform Your Classroom, Chris A. Paul, Alex T. Robson

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Alex and Chris will present five tools that lay the foundation of their classrooms. The presentation will include information on five key topics : deescalation, active teaching, relationship building, procedures and protocols, and consistency. With these five tools, Alex and Chris will explain in concrete terms hoe they have success with students at alternative schools. Watch Alex and Chris demonstrate how they teach students that break rules to become the future leaders and innovators of America.

Welcome Y’All: Family Engagement And Pbis, Michelle Sandrock

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Families are important members of our school communities. When schools and families work together toward their common goal of helping all children to be successful, it is much more likely to happen. Research shows that family engagement in a child’s school experience promotes academic success, decrease behavioral challenges and increase commitment to learning. Within the PBIS framework, schools and families can partner together to create a predictable and positive learning environment in which students can thrive at school, and at home. Come learn how to coordinate and sequence family engagement within PBIS to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, relevance, and durability …

Classroom Management: Creating P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. Habits, Anthony M. Chiles

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Classroom Management: Creating POSITIVE Habits is a presentation that goes back to the basics in establishing research-based strategies. The presentation includes expectations teachers and students have in the classroom, how to de-escalate incidents, and how to properly refer a student who is being disruptive. Participants will also learn practical strategies that will prepare and equip them to understand the root causes of habits and how to overcome bad ones. This session will be interactive and will include engagement from the audience (some hands-on role playing) to give strategies people can use next day.

Building Teacher Efficacy In A School-Wide Pbis Program, Melanie D. James, Nora Fowler

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

In order for a school's PBIS program to be effective, teachers and staff members must be equipped with the tools to engage positively with their students. Many PBIS programs fail because teacher buy-in and preparation have not occurred. At Winterville Elementary School, we feel that our PBIS program is successful because teachers receive regular training and updates on topics such as establishing effective classroom management procedures, building positive relationships with students, working with students with difficult behaviors, and knowing functions of behavior. We conduct PBIS walkthroughs, our UGA behavior analyst records positive vs. negative comments from teachers, administrators conduct classroom …

Trauma Sensitive Schools And The Pbs Framework, Dr. Melissa W. Sadin

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Recent research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology shows that the toxic stress that results from early exposure to traumatic situations (abuse, neglect, in-utero exposures to drugs and alcohol, exposure to domestic violence, and poverty) impacts brain development. Neurobiology is a significant, and often overlooked, aspect is in a child's social and emotional development. The change in brain development can be connected to bullying (both perpetrators and bullies), attendance, discipline, and to the achievement gap.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study discovered that childhood trauma leads to the adult onset of chronic diseases, depression and other mental illness, violence and …

Waffle Night Fall 2018, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Waffle Night at Brooks Library, serving free waffles, coffee and tea in the Fishbowl.

The Social Context Of Women's Sustained Participation In Activism, Susan Paterson

Open Access Dissertations

Recently, the resurgence of interest in feminist activism has been discussed by media and news outlets. It is still relatively unknown what contextual factors affect sustained participation, as well as how women from different backgrounds sustain activism in the face of compounding oppressions. This grounded theory explores the contexts of sustained participation through two research questions: (1) what are the contextual factors that influence women's sustained participation in activism?, and (2) how is the dynamic between identity and context reflected in sustained participation in activism? Nine women activists in Miami-Dade County were interviewed about their experiences in feminist movements, specifically …

Polycomb Complexes Associate With Enhancers To Regulate Oncogenic Pathways In Cancer, Ho Lam (Candy) Chan

Open Access Dissertations

The Polycomb repressive complexes play diverse and essential roles in cell fate decisions, embryonic development, stem cell pluripotency, and gene regulation. There are two main Polycomb complexes in mammalian cells, Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 and 2 (PRC1 and PRC2). PRC1 can be further subdivided into canonical and non-canonical complexes depending on its composition (cPRC1 and ncPRC1). Historically, Polycomb complexes have been mostly associated with maintaining gene repression carried out by its histone-modifying and chromatin-remodeling capabilities. Specifically, PRC1 can catalyze mono-ubiquitination of histone H2A on lysine 119 while PRC2 trimethylates histone H3 on lysine 27. Both these histone marks are associated …

Alexander Heffner, Of Pbs’S “The Open Mind,” Will Speak At Rwu On Thursday, Edward Fitzpatrick

Featured News Story

Host will talk about “Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age: The Quest for a Post-Partisan Citizenship”.

Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys Of Homelessness And Healing [Table Of Contents], Susan Greenfield

Sociology

Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times

In a metropolis like New York, homelessness can blend into the urban landscape. For editor Susan Greenfield, however, New York is the place where a community of resilient, remarkable individuals are yearning for a voice. Sacred Shelter follows the lives of thirteen formerly homeless people, all of whom have graduated from the life skills empowerment program, an interfaith life skills program for homeless and formerly homeless individuals in New York. Through frank, honest interviews, these individuals share traumas from their youth, their experience with homelessness, and …

Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys Of Homelessness And Healing [Readers' Guide], Susan Celia Greenfield

Sociology

In a metropolis like New York, homelessness can blend into the urban landscape. For editor Susan Greenfield, however, New York is the place where a community of resilient, remarkable individuals are yearning for a voice. Sacred Shelter follows the lives of thirteen formerly homeless people, all of whom have graduated from the life skills empowerment program, an interfaith life skills program for homeless and formerly homeless individuals in New York. Through frank, honest interviews, these individuals share traumas from their youth, their experience with homelessness, and the healing they have discovered through community and faith.

Edna Humphrey talks about losing …

Crucified Wisdom, S Mark Heim

Religion

This work provides the first systematic discussion of the Bodhisattva path and its importance for constructive Christian theology. Crucified Wisdom examines specific Buddhist traditions, texts and practices not as phenomena whose existence requires an apologetic justification, but as wells of tested wisdom that invite theological insight. With the increasing participation of Christians in Buddhist practice, many are seeking a deeper understanding of the way the teachings of the two traditions might interface. Christ and the Bodhisattva are often compared superficially in Buddhist-Christian discussion. This text combines a rich exposition of the Bodhisattva path, using Śāntideva’s classic work the Bodicaryāvatāra and …

Annotations On - A New Voyage To Georgia. By A Young Gentleman. (1734), John Benjamin Burroughs

HCAC Research

An account of a “young gentleman” from London, England describing his travels in the colonies of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. These annotated excerpts focus on his time in South Carolina, particularly in the region of the Waccamaw River, and give us an early description of the area that is now Horry (oh-ree) County, South Carolina from the viewpoint of an Englishman in 1734.

They Responded, We Listened: Improving Stroke Education And Patient Satisfaction, Melissa Meighan

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

The annual decrease in stroke mortality rates in the United States has slowed, but in certain populations, such as Hispanics and in southern U.S. states, mortality rates are increasing. Stroke remains the number one cause of adult disability. A previous stroke is a risk factor for a second stroke. Prompt treatment is essential for positive outcomes. Patients need to present to the hospital no more than 4.5 hours from last known well for intravenous alteplase treatment and six to 24 hours from last known well for endovascular therapy. Based on the literature, the majority of patients are not presenting to …

Weather And Climate Summary And Forecast: December 2018 Report, Gregory V. Jones

Linfield University Wine Studies Reports

This report provides a summary of the weather and climate forecast for December 2018. It includes forecast information specific to the Pacific Northwest and the western United States, as well as forecast information for other portions of the United States and abroad.

Culture Of Modern American Theology, Evan Colon

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

This paper examines literature to determine how travel reshapes the culture of spiritual seeking in the United States from the early 1800s to the modern era. As travel evolved, the experience of travel has changed over time and the reshaping of American culture reflects the impact travel can have in a region. This paper also analyzes the roles of Christian missionaries and Evangelists in reshaping the culture of spiritual seeking in America and it analyzes the spiritual experience that is recognized by both atheistic and theistic travelers.

Mislabeled Muses, Deborah L. Dougherty

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

The women of the Beat generation are important artistic contributors to consider when analyzing the Beat movement. Through lives of Carolyn Cassady, Diane Di Prima, and Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs a different experience to the Beat scene is revealed. Providing a brief but introspective analysis of three women essential to the Beat movement, this article presents a new perspective to consider when analyzing the artistic contributions and lives of the Beatnik women throughout the Beat era.

The Perspective Of Place And Landscape, Dylan Langschwager

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

The topic of Subjective vs. Objective has a broad connotation across a multitude of different works that can be viewed as abstract due to it's broad, but rooted nature within this work.

Society's Perpetuation Of Oppression, Julianne Hewitt

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

The American dream was idealistically envisioned for all members of a society until some members decided to make it unachievable for select groups. It became unachievable through means of oppressing to maintain control and have no competition in regards to achievement. Oppression of various groups of individuals begins internally on a psychological level. It becomes external when the masses of society all hold a racial or gender discriminatory view and make decisions based upon that. Groups that were deemed restricted have to deal with barriers within social mobility and formal legalities such as laws specifically geared towards them. Major groups …

A Genealogy Of Self-Development In Modern America: Influences Of The American Dream, Kelsey M. Binder

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

This article offers a hypothetical conversation between various authors and creators who have embarked on progressive self-development journeys under the influence of a shared society that intermittently embraces and rejects the structures of the American Dream. While examining the instinctive human motives that cause the radical decision to actualize one’s life, this paper attempts to bridge the psychology of the desire for personal growth to our influential cultural landscape. It explores and analyzes the self-development journeys of individuals such as William Least Heat-Moon and Chris McCandless, as well as the recent message of self-development found in a cinematic pop culture …

12-04-2018 Pre-Finals Late Night Breakfast Planned For Swosu Students, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2018

All SWOSU students are invited to the annual late-night "President's Pancake Breakfast" on Sunday, December 9, on the Weatherford campus.

Working With Messy Data Bus 4xx, Andree Rathemacher

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Campus Assembly Minutes 12/04/2018, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

The Thinker December, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

No abstract provided.