Build a classroom, school, district and community-wide plan

This working 1 1/2 hour session or ongoing consulting series will help school and district teams plan for critical consideration areas – for which there may not be functional solutions –  including the need to balance requirements to:

• Determine “imminent threat” before an “involuntary confinement” while ensuring a student believes they “are permitted to leave.”
• Obtain prior informed parental consent (Opt in, Opt out?) that is “acknowledged in writing by the principal.”
• Obtain documentation from a physician identifying any “medical, psychological or behavioral contraindications.”
• Establish communication, monitoring, reporting and adjusting avenues.

Develop multi-level, multi-grade alternative and preventative toolboxes for students, staff, peers, and families.

As written, the new regulations will do little to nothing to replace discipline as the only tool provided to our general educators. For students with underdeveloped skills that manifest as behavioral challenges, implementation, even with fidelity, will continue to make functional, meaningful inclusion implausible and, for those students who are out-of-district, a return to their own communities near impossible.

The bulk of this training will help schools and districts develop functional "alternatives" to reducing the need for discipline and "Time Out" by maximizing "Time In." Teams will learn how to develop bigger, more functional, customizable, multi-level toolboxes for students, staff, families, and peers: 

• Level 3 Tools: Reactive Pause Buttons (Restraint, Seclusion, Discipline, Time Out…)
• Level 2 Tools: Evidence-based Reactive Skill Building (Counseling, ABA, SP&L, OT, Collaborative Problem Solving, SEL, IEP goals …)
• Level 1 Tools: Escalation Prevention (Neuroceptive-Responsive)