Come explore the transformative power of a space designed to support students in managing their emotions and in building problem-solving skills. This session will guide participants in creating an effective emotional-regulation space that fosters positive behavior and student success. Learn how to implement calming strategies, facilitate meaningful conversations, and develop plans to address challenges. Participants will walk away with actionable steps to promote emotional well-being and a positive school climate in their own schools and districts.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover how to implement an effective schoolwide emotional regulation space to support students’ social-emotional needs
• Receive strategies to teach students how to recognize and manage their own emotions including calm-down techniques and reflective conversations
• Become equipped to create a structured process for helping students transition from emotional challenges to productive problem-solving

This session will focus on adaptions high school teams are making to implement and integrate Check In, Check Out (CICO) within their existing systems. Presenters will also share practical strategies, tools, and their own experiences in implementing CICO in Missouri high schools.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Understand the core features of CICO
• Identify adaptations that can be made to CICO to fit into the high school context
• Identify strategies integrating CICO within existing systems and structures

Learn how consistent behavioral expectations, emotional intelligence, and relationship-building can be reinforced through SW-PBS and Conscious Discipline at home and at school.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn the importance of setting clear and consistent behavioral expectations
• Discover how relationship-building can be reinforced through SW-PBS and Conscious Discipline
• Begin to bridge the home-to-school gap with family involvement

A sense of belonging is not just a byproduct of success but a condition for it. Having a culture of belonging districtwide and schoolwide is critical to fostering welcoming and safe working environments. Teachers cannot give to students what teachers are not receiving from their own work environments. This session will explore evidence-based strategies that can be implemented to create spaces where all staff can thrive.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Understand the importance of cultivating environments that foster a sense of belonging for all adults
• Facilitate welcoming and safe work environments for all staff
• Apply the concepts of belonging within and across organizations

Join this session for a hands-on and educationally pleasing experience and receive multiple strategies for increasing opportunities to respond  in any content area. Enjoy our World Tour (the World Wide Web version) as you sample our building SW-PBS website, Building Behavior Lessons, and explore methods to make trainings available to staff and students outside of traditional meetings with the click of a button. Participants will also enjoy an opportunity to collaborate, plan, and ask questions as they prepare for the upcoming school year.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Experience multiple strategies for increasing opportunities to respond in any content area
• Sample the Building Behavior Lessons website and explore methods to make training available outside of traditional meetings

This session is designed for smaller school districts and offers innovative ideas and resources to facilitate meaningful change. A small PK-8 district with limited resources, North Wood R-IV is committed to enhancing its leadership, systems, and culture. This results in significant improvements for staff, students, and parents. The district’s MTSS serves as a guiding framework to address academic, attendance, behavioral, and social-emotional needs through a structured approach that integrates interventions and enrichment opportunities. These concepts and resources can be adapted for schools of any size and at any grade level, thus empowering educators to implement impactful strategies.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Recognize that MTSS offers a framework for addressing student academic, attendance, behavioral, and social-emotional needs through a structured approach
• Gain insights into how North Wood R-IV prioritizes its leadership, culture, and systems to create positive outcomes for students
• Be able to adapt or replicate successful strategies and resources to address the unique needs of participants’ own districts

This session will explore refreshing strategies for fostering a sense of belonging among Black and Brown students, challenging societal norms and redefining possibilities through culturally responsive practices within the MTSS and SW-PBS framework.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Explore strategies and tools to create sense of belonging for all children
• Become aware of how unfair acts and practices adversely affect Black and Brown students
• Create different examples of equitable experiences for students within participants’ own districts

MO SW-PBS data tools are designed to aid teams in making data-based decisions. These tools are easy to use, and they provide teams with reports that are easy to read and interpret and that are needed to make decisions regarding office discipline referral data. This hands-on session will build in time and resources to practice entering data, running reports, and troubleshooting. (Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop.)

SESSION OUTCOME:

• Discover how to access MO SW-PBS data tools

Have you ever needed to make changes for a student but were not able to do so? Without data, the Knox County R-I School District had great ideas on how to address student behaviors, but educators could not prove there was a need for change. In this session, participants will discover the importance of continually collecting behavioral data in order to implement change for individual students and across the entire SWPBS program. Come along on a journey starting with very little data and overwhelmed teachers; and ending with obtaining the data necessary to back up the district’s need for the addition of a student-success team, a board-certified behavioral analyst, and even a trained therapy dog.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover how to use data to drive decision-making
• Learn the effects of data on behavioral supports within the school
• Learn how to use data continually for growth within the school district

Acting-out behaviors manifest in ways that make both classroom management and academic success challenging. In this session, the book Managing the Cycle of Acting-Out Behavior in the Classroom by Geoffrey T. Colvin and Terrance M. Scott will be used to provide an understanding of acting-out behavior along with strategies elementary educators can use to prevent or minimize behavioral issues.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Review the acting-out cycle
• Identify strategies to use in elementary settings that can diffuse escalating behaviors