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2009 - 2010 STORIES |
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Recognition 2010
applications
are now available online. To obtain
password information to gain access please contact your
POC. Download the
application and
scoring guide here. (Be sure to click Save, not Open when
prompted.) |
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Check-In/Check-Out at
Gale-Bailey ES.
Learn how one school in Charles County is implementing. (more) |
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SWIS Facilitator Training
took place in
September 2009 at Loyola University Maryland. Participants from around
the country participated in the three day training. Congratulations to
Aliza Statman, Ellyn Berkowitz, Pat Childs and Pam Moore from
Baltimore City; Mary
Anne Adkins from Caroline County; Jen
Steczak from Cecil County; Rosanne
Wilson from Howard County; Patti
Hershfeldt from JHU; Kelly Spanoghe
from MANSEF; Devon Beck from
Ridge
Schools and Julie Van Metre from
Washington County for becoming
Maryland's newest SWIS facilitators! Learn more about SWIS
(more) |
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Summer
Institute 2009
is
now completed with several events and a couple thousand attendees. See
available presentations here.
(more)
|
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PBIS
at Oakland Mills MS is Pie-In-The-Sky these days.
Click here to learn why. (more) |
 PBIS
Maryland recognizes 343 schools in 2009.
See the recipients
and criteria here.
(more) |
|
The Call for Papers for the 7th
International
Conference on Positive Behavior Support is now open until September 10,
2009. (more) |
|
The US
Department of Education is encouraging school districts
to use stimulus funds to implement Positive Behavior Supports.
(more) |
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The Technical Assistance Center
on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports is excited to announce the relaunch
of their website with a new design, better navigation system, more
content, and resources. The website can be viewed at:
www.pbis.org |
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2008 - 2009 STORIES |
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Carroll County's Melissa Leahy and Kimberly Muniz
present at the APBS Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.
See presentation materials here.
|
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Leadership Summit 2009
took place on Monday, March 30, 2009 with nearly 400
people in attendance representing over 130 schools interested in
implementing this summer.
See documents from the day. Presentations will be posted as they are
received.
|
|
2008/9 Newsletter is now online.
Get your copy here. (more) |
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Anne Arundel County's
newsletter, PBIS Kudos, publishes its February 2009 edition. Get a copy
here. (more)
|
|
National TA Center's Cynthia
Anderson
presents:
"Designing Effective Classrooms: Strategies for Classroom Management
Within Schoolwide PBIS." See the presentation and supporting
documents here.
|
|
PBIS Maryland's Alexander, McKenna, Bloom and Bradshaw
present at the Directors of Student Services meeting in
Ocean City, Maryland. See the presentation here.
(more) |
|
Susan Barrett
presents "Using
School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (SW-PBS)
to Build Sustainable Systems within Alternative School Settings"
at the National Association of Private
Special Education Centers (NAPSEC). See the presentation here.
(more) |
|
Anne Arundel County
hosted its annual PBIS regional meeting. See material from the
day.
|
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Calvert County's Southern MS's
fundraiser draws attention in Calvert Recorder's "'Adversity'
promotes positive behavior". See the article here.
(more) |
|
Recognition 2009 applications are now
available online. To obtain password information to gain
access please contact your POC.
Download the application
and scoring rubric here. (Be sure to click Save, not Open when
prompted.) |
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"Public schools see drop in suspensions".
An article in the Baltimore Examiner discusses
statewide suspensions. See the article here.
(more) |
|
PBIS Maryland hosted its largest
Coaches' Meeting
with nearly 300 coaches and administrators
present. Presentations were offered by Susan Barrett and Milt
McKenna. See the presentation material.
|
|
Catherine Bradshaw and the PBIS
Management Team
provided an update to the MSDE leadership on
PBIS and on the research outcomes from Hopkins randomized
controlled study known as Project Target.
See the presentation here. (more) |
|
MSDE's Andrea Alexander presented
PBIS and the Law in Maryland at the MAPP
Conference to
Directors of Student Services, the State Leadership Team, the
Maryland Association of Pupil Personnel and the Supervisors of PPWs
from across the state. See the presentation here.
(more)
Baltimore
County hosted a series of
team leader/coach meetings with over 100
people in attendance. County data was presented and various
schools shared their successes. See the presentation material
|
|
PBIS in High Schools: What Works!:
Maryland and Virginia host their first dual state forum for high
schools. See available presentation material and check back
after the event for updates.
|
|
Schools'
Punitive Actions Decline,
an article in the
Baltimore Sun,
discusses a decrease in middle and high school discipline referrals,
suspensions and expulsions in Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
See the article here.
(more) |
|
Connecting Our
Region Through PBIS.
Susan Barrett presents to Carroll County PBIS schools. See the
presentation here.
(more) |
|
The
National Center for Education Evaluation
and Regional Assistance has released two What Works Clearinghouse
reports. The first, "Reducing
Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom", is a
practice guide offering five concrete recommendations for helping
elementary school general education teachers reduce the frequency of
the most common types of behavior problems encountered among
students. The second, "Dropout
Prevention Topic Report", summarizes the Clearinghouse's dropout
prevention intervention reports prepared through September 2008. |
|
Charles County Bucks Statewide Increase in School Suspensions,
an article on the
Advocates for
Children and Youth website discusses how Charles County is
decreasing suspensions in their school system. See the article
here.
(more) |
|
Susan Barrett presents at the 3rd Annual
Missouri
Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support Summer Institute. See
presentation material.
|
|
Summer
Institute 2008
wrapped up with 11 events and a couple
thousand attendees. See available presentations here.
(more) |
|
WBAL TV's Tim Tootin visits Summer Institute 2008.
See the
article and video (more) |
|
PBIS
Maryland recognizes 252 schools in 2008.
See the recipients
and criteria here.
(more) |
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2007 - 2008 STORIES |
|
Summer Institute 2007 kicked
off
on Monday, July 9
with nearly 1000 registrants for New Team training and over 1700
registrants for 5 regional Returning Team trainings. See
presentation materials.
(more) |
|
Baltimore Sun's
article, "Schools look to
improve discipline by going positive" covers PBIS Maryland's Summer
Institute 2007. See the article here. (more) |
|
PBIS
Maryland
recognizes 188 schools. See the criteria and listings. (more) |
|
Bazelon Center for Mental
Health Law's article, "Positive Behavior for
Effective Schools Act Introduced" addresses legislation
proposed to help schools meet the twin challenges of improving
academic achievement and fostering a school climate that promotes
learning. See the article here. (more).
See the act here. (more) |
|
Interested in contacting
your elected officials to encourage them to
support the Reducing Barriers to
Learning Act and the Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act?
Click here to find out how. (more) |
|
Cumberland Times News
boasts Allegany County's involvement in the Western Region' s
Returning Team Event. See the article here. (more) |
|
Using information for Decision Making.
Susan Barrett presents to Virginia coaches. See the
presentation here.
(more) |
|
Is
School-wide Positive
Behavior Support
an Evidence-based Practice? A
RESEARCH Summary. See the summary here. (more) |
|
Obama, Durbin, Hare
Introduce Bill to Improve Student Behavior in Schools. See the
press release here.
(more) |
|
PBIS
Maryland's Susan Barrett and Howard
County Public School's
Karyn Renneberg present
"Building Effective Coaches to Expand & Sustain PBIS
Implementation" at the Forum for Change Conference in Chicago,
Illinois. See the presentation here.
((more) |
|
"Playing
First, Eating Later", from the Hartford
Courant, discusses "Growing Number Of Elementary Schools Putting Off
Lunchtime Until After Recess".
See the
article here. (more) |
|
PBIS
Maryland's Barrett, Alexander and Leaf
present PBIS in Maryland Schools at the 12th Annual
Conference on Advancing School Mental Health. See the
presentation here. (more)
|
|
PBIS Maryland
website now has links to implementing schools.
Click on
Schools and Coaches,
to the left, to begin browsing the nearly 500 listed schools. |
|
Anne Arundel
County held their regional
meeting on 10.24.2007. See meeting notes and presentations
here
|
|
PBIS at home.
This simple matrix may be helpful. See the
matrix here. (more) |
|
PBIS
Maryland's Barrett and Bloom
present at the
MANSEF conference in Baltimore, Maryland. See the
presentation here. (more) |
|
Wiley H. Bates
Middle in
Anne Arundel County shares its
PBIS success. (more) |
|
PBIS Maryland hosted
it largest
Coaches' Meeting ever
with over 200 people in attendance. See the presentations here.
(more) |
|
2008 American Stars of Teaching
nominations are now being accepted by USDE. Click here to nominate
someone.
(more) |
|
Leadership Forum 2008
will take place on
February 14, 2008. See a copy of Dr. Grasmick's invitation
here. If you are
interested in registering please contact your local
POC. Please
note that registration will close February 8th. |
|
Leadership Forum 2008
took place on February 14, 2008 with nearly
300 people in attendance representing over 100 schools interested in
implementing this coming summer. See documents from the day.
Presentations will be posted as they are received. |
|
|
|
Anne Arundel County's, PBIS Kudos,
hits the presses. Get a copy here.
(more) |
|
Baltimore
County's
PBIS Meeting for BCPS Team Leaders
and Coaches
took place on Friday, March 14, 2008 with 150
people in attendance. BCPS data was presented along with
school presentations emphasizing implementation and sustainment
efforts. See the presentations here.
|
|
The 5th International
Conference on Positive
Behavior Support
took place on March 27-29, 2008.
Many of the sessions presented by Maryland's leadership team were to
standing room only crowds. See presentations and materials here. Additional presentations will be posted as
they are received.
|
|
Regional Returning Team Training
registration pages are starting to come
online. Check below to see if yours is available. If
not, check back soon. Links will be provided as they are
received.
|
|
Update
on Key Findings from Project Target
discusses some findings on the research
project. See the presentation here. (more) |
|
More PBIS
Lesson Plans have been added to the
School Examples page.
Thanks to Allegany County's
Beall ES and
Westmar MS
and Montgomery County's
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. MS
for their contributions.
Click here to see more school examples?
(more) |
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2006 - 2007 STORIES |
|
Spring 2007
Coaches' Meeting held May 14, 2007 was
host to nearly 150 coaches throughout Maryland. Participants
learned strategies for action planning and readying schools for new
and returning team training. See the materials in the Coaches
Resources section. (more) |
|
PBIS Maryland in Ottawa.
Maryland State Leadership Team member Milt McKenna
presents PBIS to over 150 educators in Ottawa, Canada. See the
presentation, in French, here. (more) |
|
Spring 2007
Newsletter hits the presses. Get
your copy here. (more) |
|
Spring Forum
2007 took place on March 27, 2007 with
nearly 400 people representing 140 potential PBIS schools. See
materials from the day. |
|
Benchmarks of
Quality tool was presented by Baltimore
County's Dr. Joan Ledvina Parr and Charles County's Dr. Elsa Velez
at the January 30th Coaches' Meeting. See the presentation and
handouts. |
|
Behavior
Support Academics...
Maryland State
Leadership Team members Ledvina Parr and Kidder present at the 4th
International Conference on Positive Behavior Support. See the
presentation here. (more) |
|
Coaching on a
Shoestring... Maryland State Leadership
Team members Velez, Dolan, Ledvina Parr and Barrett present at the
4th International Conference on Positive Behavior Support. See the
presentation here. (more) |
|
Expanding the
World of PBS... Maryland State Leadership Team members Alexander and
Bloom present Maryland's implementation efforts at the 4th
International Conference on Positive Behavior Support. See the
presentation here. (more) |
|
Spring Forum
2007 is an event designed to introduce
the concepts and theories of PBIS to administrator's of Maryland
schools interested in beginning implementation during Summer 2007.
This one day event will be held March 27, 2007. (more) |
|
PBIS Maryland
School Recognition Program.
In an effort
to recognize the continued accomplishments of our PBIS Maryland
schools the State Leadership Team has developed a recognition rubric
for the 2006-2007 school year. Applications for all categories
are due March 1st. Download the application here. (more) |
|
The School
Examples section has been updated.
See recent additions from
|
|
Best Practices in Classrooms
University of Oregon's Dr. Cynthia Anderson
presents to Anne Arundel County Clusters and Maryland Coaches.
See the presentation here. (more) |
|
Coaching Smarter
Susan Barrett presents
to new coaches at the October 2006 Coaches' Meeting. See the
presentation here. (more) |
| Secondary and
Tertiary Interventions Forum took place on
October 12-13, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. Representatives from
many Maryland counties and the State Leadership Team presented to
PBIS leaders from throughout the country. See the
presentations. |
|
Monocacy
Middle School in Frederick County offers
an interesting way for teaching school rules by playing a game of
Jeopardy! Download the PowerPoint game and accompanying
documents here.
|
|
Anne Arundel
County's newsletter, PBIS Kudos, publishes
it 3rd edition. Get a copy here. (more) |
|
The
Alternative Schools Forum,
hosted by
Annapolis Road Academy, in Prince George's County, had attendees
from 13 systems throughout the state. ARA presented on their
PBIS initiative and representatives from the other LSS's shared
about their implementation process. See the presentation here.
(more) |
|
The High
School Forum, hosted by
Lansdowne HS, in
Baltimore County, had attendees from 13 systems throughout the
state. See their presentation here. (more)
See all of Lansdowne HS's materials.
(more) |
|
Dr. Cynthia Anderson,
from the University
of Oregon, presented to Maryland coaches. See the presentations
and handouts. |
|
Dr. Cynthia
Anderson, from the University of Oregon,
presented on targeted interventions to Charles County teams.
See the presentations and handouts. |
|
A Central
Regional Meeting
was held with over 100
coaches and team leaders from Baltimore County, Baltimore City and
Harford County. See the
overview and school examples from
Chase ES,
Gen. John
Sticker MS, Lansdowne HS,
Old Court MS,
Shady Spring ES
and Stemmers Run MS. |
|
Governor
Martin O'Malley visits Baltimore County's
General John Stricker MS and takes a moment to talk about PBIS with
coach Jennifer Jackson and Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith
Jr. (more) |
|
2005-2006 STORIES |
|
The PBS Implementation
Forum was held in Rosemont, Chicago on 10.20.2005-10.21.2005 with 11
Maryland district teams represented! In attendance were
representatives from Anne Arundel, Baltimore City, Baltimore County,
Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, St.
Mary's and MANSEF. State Leadership Team members: Barrett,
McKenna, Lohnes and Bloom presented Maryland's exemplar
implementation efforts. See the presentations.... |
|
SWIS
Facilitator Training
took place Fall 2005 at AACC Arundel Mills. Participants from
around the country participated in the three day training.
Congratulations to Joanna Owens, Don Hurley and Manuel Raposo from
Baltimore City Public
School System for becoming Maryland's newest SWIS facilitators! |
|
The Baltimore
City Public School System held its first
PBIS Team Leaders Meeting (more)
|
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20
Baltimore City schools with over 100 staff complete a
two day training. Much enthusiasm was felt throughout
the room. (more) |
|
Germantown
Elementary and members of the State Leadership Team present at
the USDE, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools 2005 National
Conference in a session titled, "PBIS School, School System and
State Level Implementation in Maryland." See the presentation
here. (more)
|
|
2005 Summer
Institute...
presentations
and photos |
|
The
Baltimore City PBIS implementing schools Principals Forum
was a great success (more) |
| Congratulations!
77 2005 Exemplar schools throughout the state of
Maryland have been identified. See the listing
here. (more)
|
|
Baltimore City
Public School System hosts PBIS training for an additional
group of teams.
See presentation materials... |
|
Susan
Barrett
delivers the keynote address at the Blue Ribbon Summit in Memphis,
Tennessee. See the presentation here (more) |
|
Robert
Moton ES's Pam Meyers, Frank Fiore and
Kim Muņiz present on creative ways to use data at the Spring coaches
meeting. See presentation materials here. |
| Jenifer ES's Susie
Fowler
and PBIS Coordinator Susan Barrett present at the
Maryland
Association of Elementary School Principals. See
presentation materials here. |
|
Children's Guild-Annapolis'
Kelly
Spanoghe, Mark Jones and Rodney Wallace present at the Special
Schools meeting. See the presentation here (more) |
|
Baltimore County's
Dr. Joan Ledvina-Parr
and Dr. Margaret Kidder present at the national
APBS conference in Reno,
Nevada. See the presentation here (more) |
|
Southern
MD Regional PBIS Meeting took place on
Friday, May 5, 2006 in Waldorf, Maryland with nearly 100 people from
Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's Counties in attendance with a focus
of "moving beyond the universal interventions". See
presentation material... |
|
Gov. Thomas
Johnson MS
in Frederick County offers PBIS matrices, signs and presentations.
See the materials
here. Interesting in submitting materials from your
school? Contact
Jerry Bloom |
|
PBIS Kudos, Anne Arundel County's PBIS
newsletter hits the presses. Get a copy here (more) |
|
Dr. Joan Ledvina-Parr from Baltimore
County
receives
MSPA's
School
Psychologist of the Year Award! The PBIS State Leadership
Team congratulates Dr. Parr on this outstanding achievement. |
|
SWIS
Facilitator training took place April
25-27 at Anne Arundel Community College. Congratulations to
Lynda Kline from Worcester County, Kris Leary from Montgomery
County, Kathy Lacer and Delores Magnani from St. Mary's County
and Kim Muņiz from Carroll County. |
|
Spring Forum
2006 took place on April 6th with 400
participants representing 160 schools. See presentation materials...
|
|
Susan Barrett
presents with other
PBIS state coordinators at the 3rd annual APBS Conference. See
the presentation here (more) |
| Building
Capacity... As schools systems and
districts build local capacity, it becomes increasingly important
for the roles and responsibilities for the state district or local
team to be clearly defined. This document outlines the phases of
implementation and defines the specific responsibilities as systems
go to scale. (more) |
|
2005
PBIS Newsletter is now available online! Get a copy here.
(more) |
| Cumberland's
Times-News prints article on Allegany County's 3 Exemplar Schools.
(more) |
|
2005 Summer
Institute...
presentations
and photos |
|
Anne Arundel County
publishes it's first
county-wide PBIS newsletter,
PBIS Kudos. Get a copy here. (more) |
|
Susan Barrett & Children's
Guild's Kelly Spanoghe present at the 21st Annual
MANSEF Conference in Baltimore,
Maryland. See presentation materials...
|
|
National PBIS Trainers
Teri Lewis-Palmer and Susan Barrett conduct new team training in
Bermuda. See training material...
|
|
PBIS
Maryland Management Team presents at the national
APBS conference in Reno,
Nevada. See the presentation here (more) |
|
Barrett
& McKenna
present at the Midwest Symposium
for Leadership in Behavioral Disorders in Kansas City, Missouri.
See the presentation here (more) |
|
Tom J. Craney, Ed.D.
presents a MINDS
workshop to PBIS Special Schools. See the presentation here
(more) |
|
SAMHSA
offers a list of Model Programs. View the
listing here.
(more) |
|
Dr. Nancy
Grasmick
visits Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary school in Charles
County to laud their PBIS efforts. See the article. (more)
|
|
USATODAY's
article, "At schools, less tolerance for 'zero
tolerance'" discusses discipline concerns in schools. See the
article (more).
See the full APA report (more) |
|
Four schools
honored as role
models... See the Delmarva.com article
(more) |
|
7
Eastern Shore PBIS
schools are recognized by the local newspaper Delmarvanow.com.
See the article here (more) |
|
The 2006
Summer Institute was a huge success with
nearly 900 people in attendance for New Team Training and 1500 for
Returning Team Training. Many of the presentations are
available online. See the presentations here (more) |
|
Susan Barrett
provided BEP training to PBIS teams in
Fairfax, Virginia. See the presentation here. (more) |
|
Special EDge
article, "What Is It? Why Do It? Is It
Worth It?" discusses a response to intervention. See a copy of
the article here (more).
|
|
107 PBIS Exemplar Schools
have been identified. Schools will be recognized at the 2006
Summer Institute on July 18, 2006. See the listing.
(more) |
|
2004-2005 STORIES |
| Baltimore Sun headlines on the PBIS
efforts in Anne Arundel County.
See the article here (more) |
|
Charles County's Keith Grier and Elsa
Velez present to the Board of Education. (more) |
| "Heading Off Disruptive Behavior
How Early Intervention Can Reduce
Defiant Behavior -- and Win Back Teaching Time". This article
by Walker, Ramsey and Gresham was posted in the Winter 2003-2004
edition of American Educator. Read the article. (more) |
| "Program rewards
students for positive
behavior". An article in the Maryland Gazette focuses on Anne
Arundel Counties efforts to implement PBIS. (more)
|
| Dr. Phil Leaf honored
with the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Community Service (more) |
|
January 2005
Coaches' Meeting...follow up material and
comments (more) |
| Germantown Elementary
--
How a 4th year
PBIS school sustains the effort. (more) |
| High
Schools interested in PBIS? Check
out the monograph here (more) |
|
Allegany
County's Val Llewellyn shares how Dollar
General can help your PBIS initiative. (more) |
| Charles County's Elsa Velez organized
their regional meeting with a new twist. Instead of school
presentations mini-groups were devised to address various topics.
Dr. Velez then summarized and disbursed the results in the following
document. (more) |
| Charles County PBIS Schools and members
of the PBIS State Leadership Team meet with Superintendent Mr. James
E. Richmond (more) |
| Maryland's Data...See how Maryland's
PBIS schools have done in 2003-2004 (more) |
| Systems of Care...Susan Barrett, Phil
Leaf and Elsa Velez present at the Training Institute's 2004 (more)
|
| Training for Trainers... Susan Barrett
and Milt McKenna presented at the Training for Trainers National
Conference in Naperville, Illinois. View the materials (more) |
| Anne Arundel County
Exemplar Schools
under the guidance of Dr. Virginia Dolan, along with members of the
PBIS State Leadership team, present to Superintendent, Dr. Eric J.
Smith. View the presentation (more) |
| Extra points for better behavior.
An October 2004 article is the Charles County "Maryland Independent"
(more) |
| Hamilton Fish Institute's
Persistently Safe School Conference included a paper presented
by Leaf, Keys, Barrett and McKenna describing our
State-Academic-School system partnership that has disseminated a
universal youth violence preventing strategy throughout schools in
Maryland. View the presentation (more) |
|
Harman
Elementary in Anne Arundel County is
awarded the Distinguished Title I School Award. See photo and
statement. (more) |
|
Beach
Center on Disability's Quarterly Newsletter discusses:
"Schoolwide PBS And Student Achievement: Is There A
Connection? (more) |
|
Going to Scale
in Maryland's Local Schools Systems. Leadership Team
members McKenna, Barrett, Dolan, Leaf and Bloom present at the 2nd
International Conference on Positive Behavior Support. (more) |
|
Baltimore
County's Joey Parr and Margaret Kidder
present at the 2nd International Conference on Positive Behavior
Support on developing a model for system-wide implementation.
See the presentation. (more) |
|
Dr. Terry
Scott, from the University of Florida,
presents to Anne Arundel County PBIS teams on Managing Challenging
Behaviors. See the presentation. (more) |
|
Dr. Terry
Scott,
from the University of Florida, presents on Behavioral Interventions
for Targeted Groups. See the presentation. (more) |
|
Arundel High
presents their PRIDE at Anne Arundel County's regional
meeting. See the presentation. (more)
Browse other school examples. (more) |
|
Lansdowne
High's
Viking Code keynotes the High School Forum. See the
presentation (more). |
|
St. Elizabeth School's
Nano Kolls presents the Eagle High 5 at the Special/Alternative
Schools Meeting. Representatives from 5 LSS's were in
attendance. See the presentation. (more) |
|
Dr. George Sugai
delivers the plenary at the 2005 Spring Forum for new schools.
See his presentation here. (more) |
|
Leadership Team
members Catherine Bradshaw and Lynne Weise present on Yellow and Red
Zone Strategies at the May 2005 Coaches' Meeting. View
materials here.
(more) |
|
Susan Barrett presents at the Blue Ribbon Summit in Memphis, Tennessee. See the
presentation here. (more) |
|
Susan Barrett
returns to Memphis, Tennessee for a second week of training.
See all the presentations here. (more) |
|
WBAL TV's Tim Tooten
visits the 2004 Summer
Institute. Read the article or watch the news clip (more) |
|
2004 Summer Institute presentations are
still available online (more) |
