As educators, we are often adept at identifying and then filling in the specific academic skills impeding a student’s ability to succeed in a content area; however when it comes to behaviors, our focus often shifts from a student demonstrating gaps in learning based on the absence of a specific skills to punishment or exclusion. This session will focus on how to create and implement an alternative discipline framework that puts learning at the center by matching restorative, reflective and instructional consequences to infractions and focusing on learning and developing SEL competencies while focusing on the learning that needs to take place to change the demonstrated behavior. Participants will engage in deep reflection of their current systems and how they support or inhibit student learning and walk away with a new approach to classroom and school based behavior management which will lead to increased student achievement. Participants will identify the SEL skills needed to address the presenting behaviors and walk away with multiple plans, forms and templates to address different frequent types of behavior incidents that impede access to ongoing academic learning. You will feel empowered with the extensive resources provided as examples and strategies that can be utilized for multiple types of behavior incidents impeding focus on academic learning. You’ll find you have much more time to teach after this session and your students will be able to learn!
