Behavior+Management


 * Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

 The Classroom Management Series IV is titled **//Behavior Crisis Management Tools//**. This series focused on practical and productive techniques that can be used in a variety of behavior crisis situations that may occur in a classroom. Teachers have told us that one of their major concerns has been dealing with severe behavior problems in the classroom. While there are many different types of crisis situations that may occur having the proper “tools” can prevent a situation from becoming even worse. This **//Classroom Management Series//** provided a variety of crisis tools for all types of situations. These tools have been gathered over the years and have been very successful in actual classroom situations.
 * Behavior Crisis Management Tools

Learn how to improve student engagement and build a positive climate for learning and discipline for grades K-12. We've all heard this about students: "If they are engaged, they are managed." And this is absolutely the truth. But we still need rules, routines, trust, and student ownership to make a classroom run smoothly and effectively. This guide will address those practical aspects of managing a classroom, with suggestions and resources appropriate for grades K-12.
 * Classroom Management Download

Love and Logic is a philosophy of raising and teaching children which allows adults to be happier, empowered, and more skilled in the interactions with children. Love allows children to grow through their mistakes. Logic allows children to live with the consequences of their choices. Love and Logic is a way of working with children that puts parents and teachers back in control, teaches children to be responsible, and prepares young people to live in the real world, with its many choices and consequences.
 * Love and Logic

The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.
 * Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

__**Aggression Replacement Therapy:**__ This Website provides you with information about those Cognitive Behavior Interventions that work with youth at-risk. The links at the left provide you access to the information about the two programs we have designed and developed, products that are available, upcoming events and training activities, as well as information about our organization. Feel free to contact us, especially if we can be of any service to you. Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®) is a cognitive behavioral intervention program to help children and adolescents improve social skill competence and moral reasoning, better manage anger, and reduce aggressive behavior. The program specifically targets chronically aggressive children and adolescents. Developed by Arnold P. Goldstein and Barry Glick, ART® has been implemented in schools and juvenile delinquency programs across the United States and throughout the world. The program consists of 10 weeks (30 sessions) of intervention training, and is divided into three components—social skills training, anger-control training, and training in moral reasoning. Clients attend a one-hour session in each of these components each week. Incremental learning, reinforcement techniques, and guided group discussions enhance skill acquisition and reinforce the lessons in the curriculum.
 * G & G Consultants
 * National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention

__**Cognitive Therapy:**__ Cognitive therapy, or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), effectively treats many mental health disorders using problem-solving strategies to help individuals address their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT) helps individuals and families: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides clients with practical and powerful skills that can be applied over a lifetime to reduce discomfort and improve levels of functioning. Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) is a nationally recognized, professional training and certification program sponsored by the Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute of Hagerstown, Maryland. PDF document about LIfe Space Crisis Intervention Do you work with children who display chronic patterns of self-defeating behavior? Turn crisis situations into learning opportunities with LifeSpace Crisis Intervention, an advanced, interactive therapeutic strategy. This powerful series combines a multi-theoretical model integrating Psychodynamic, Cognitive and Pro-Social theories into a dynamic and comprehensive strategy rooted in personal insights, behavioral changes and natural consequences.
 * Academy of Cognitive Therapy
 * 1) Access cognitive therapy resources,
 * 2) Learn more about mental health disorders, and
 * 3) Find certified cognitive therapists.
 * Behavioral Associates: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
 * Life Space Crisis Intervention

This reflective essay describes a teacher’s development of a student-centered approach to teaching which bridges the gap between students’ knowledge before and after a course. In “mind the gap teaching,” students’ prior knowledge leads the conversation and, in turn, the teaching, allowing them to integrate new information more effectively.
 * Mind the Gap in the Classroom

The Association for Behavior Analysis International® (ABAI) is a nonprofit membership organization with the mission to contribute to the well-being of society by developing, enhancing, and supporting the growth and vitality of the science of behavior analysis through research, education, and practice. The BACB’s mission is to develop, promote, and implement an international certification program for behavior analyst practitioners. The BACB has established uniform content, standards, and criteria for the credentialing process that are designed to meet The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies is a nonprofit organization that harnesses the expertise of hundreds of behavioral scientists to solve problems in the home, school, community, and the workplace. The **Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis** is a psychology journal that publishes research about applications of the experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance.
 * __Applied Behavior Analysis__**
 * ABA International
 * Behavior Analyst Certification Board
 * 1) The legal standards established through state, federal and case law;
 * 2) The accepted standards for national certification programs; and
 * 3) The "best practice" and ethical standards of the behavior analysis profession.
 * Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
 * Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

An initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the WWC:
 * What Works Clearinghouse
 * 1) Produces user-friendly [|practice guides] for educators that address instructional challenges with research-based recommendations for schools and classrooms;
 * 2) Assesses the rigor of research evidence on the effectiveness of [|interventions] (programs, products, practices, and policies), giving educators the tools to make informed decisions;
 * 3) Develops and implements [|standards] for reviewing and synthesizing education research; and
 * 4) Provides a public and easily accessible [|registry of education evaluation researchers] to assist schools, school districts, and program developers with designing and carrying out rigorous evaluations.

APBS is an international organization dedicated to promoting research-based strategies that combine applied behavior analysis and biomedical science with person-centered values and systems change to increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors.
 * Association for Positive Behavior Support