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Overview: Riverside SELPA

  1. Create, nurture connections developed at the institute to establish a network of participants who share the common goals of supporting student’s success upon transition from middle school to high school and from high school to work/post high school education.
  2. Highlight exemplary programs within Riverside County and the Southern California area, creating opportunities to expand learning and build leadership capacity within participants.
  3. Support efforts toward system change around the areas of instruction, assessment and building connections/collaboration for Transition planning for all students.
  4. Build communities of learners within districts and between districts and agencies to sustain ongoing learning and support beyond this Institute.

Main topics:

Positive Behavior Intervention

Goals and Outcomes :

  1. Create/nurture connections developed at the institute to establish a network of participants who share the common goals of creating positive school environments that support positive behaviors in the classroom and school.
  2. Close the achievement gap by providing positive behavior supports within the classroom that ensure students are engaged in learning and lower the drop out rate.
  3. Highlight components of exemplary programs within X County and the southern California area, creating opportunities to expand learning and build leadership capacity within participants.
  4. Support efforts toward system change around the philosophy of creating positive environments utilizing a team approach, including families, for proactive planning and writing behavior support plans in a ‘response to instruction’ model.
  5. Implementing successful evidence based practices to create positive changes in student behavior and develop behavior support plans with accountability fidelity.
  6. Build communities of learners within and between districts and agencies to sustain ongoing learning and support beyond this Institute.

Institute Agenda:

Positive Behavior Support Planning Moreno Valley Conference and Recreation Center November 12 & 13, 2008

Day 1

Facilitator – Setting the institute’s goals of system change and creating networks

Key Note Speaker – Creating an impetus for a paradigm shift in how to approach positive behavior support planning

Break

Break Out Sessions –Belief system

Buddy Lunch – Speaker

Break Out Sessions – System change

Wisdom from the Field – Spotlighting exemplary models

Facilitator – Wrap-up – Embracing systems change to incorporate new connections

Day 2

Facilitator – Set tone for the day

Keynote speaker – foundation for School wide Positive Behavior Support

Break Out Sessions – Data Driven Decision

Lunch - Speaker

Vendors and Resources

Team Planning Time

Facilitator – Wrap-up

  • Facilitators and Keynote Presenter:
  • Dr. Sheri Wilkins – Facilitator
  • Dr. Rudy Castruita – Keynote Day 1
  • Dr. Ron Powell – Lunch Presenter Day 1
  • Dr. Rob Horner – Keynote Day 2
  • Dr. Sandy Schnack – Lunch Presenter Day 2

• To be provided after Regional Institute and Technical Assistance days