Geared toward administrators and teacher-leaders at the site, central office, or county/regional levels, you will uncover the influences that impact your daily work and devise strategic moves to overcome hurdles through a collective leadership approach.

(This is the on-demand recording of the 1/31/2024 live session, limited to participants from NCCSE member districts) Although the construct of trauma has largely eluded a thorough behavior analysis, considerations surrounding trauma and trauma-informed care (TIC) have indubitably entered mainstream applied behavior analysis (ABA). In the absence of clear findings and guidance from a TIC research program, conversations surrounding the matter—which have permeated published literature, peer review, everyday practice interactions, and social media—have been polarizing. Some submit that ABA has not done enough to incorporate TIC, while others assert it is entirely unnecessary, perhaps even harmful for the discipline. Yet others remain skeptical to embrace TIC in ABA until more data reveal the utility (or lack thereof) of the framework.This presentation is an attempt to bring clarity, vocabulary, and nuance to this timely discussion.

Would you like to learn how you can decrease problematic behaviors while increasing behaviors you want to see? What we do before and after a challenging behavior is instrumental in effecting behavior change. This workshop will provide you with both proactive antecedent strategies to prevent challenging behaviors, as well as reinforcement strategies to strengthen and maintain desired behaviors.

WHAT IS THE YDI? The Youth Development Institute (YDI) was created to help youth-serving organizations improve their programs by incorporating evidence-based youth development practices. YDI provides teams a powerful and interactive learning and training experience as a way to launch organizational change with the goal of aligning practices with youth development principles, building staff and agency capacity and professionalizing the youth development field.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) eliminates barriers in the design of the learning environment and makes curriculum accessible to all students. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES: Understand the underlying principles of UDL, Understand the basic neuroscience to reach all learners, Explore & use UDL principles for designing instruction tomeet student needs, Engage in professional conversations around UDLapplications across classrooms

WHAT IS THE YDI? The Youth Development Institute (YDI) was created to help youth-serving organizations improve their programs by incorporating evidence-based youth development practices. YDI provides teams a powerful and interactive learning and training experience as a way to launch organizational change with the goal of aligning practices with youth development principles, building staff and agency capacity and professionalizing the youth development field.

Join Us for an Interactive Virtual Book Study Plus an Opportunity to Meet the Author. Whether you are new to a school or have been there a while, the beginning of the year brings forth the opportunity to envision how you will deepen the impact coaching makes on teacher and student learning. We invite individuals and teams of coaches, principals and district leaders to explore strategies and imagine the possibilities within their own context.