2024 National Conference

National

Conference

28th Annual Safe & Civil Schools

National Conference

July 14–18, 2024

Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront

Portland, OR


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In our conference sessions, educators learn how to create and maintain a full continuum of behavior support so that every student is successful, no matter the level of need. The Safe & Civil Schools multi-tiered system of behavior support (MTSS) addresses all students’ needs with a system of overlapping tiers of support, so there are no gaps and no student falls through the cracks.


Attendees learn from our engaging and experienced consultants and come away empowered with new strategies for improving school climate, culture, and instruction and practical tools to help all students (even the most challenging ones) succeed.


**Pre-registration is required**

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Questions? Email info@safeandcivilschools.com 

or call 800/323-8819.

Keynote

Sunday, July 14, 6:30 pm
Presented by
Jessica Sprick, Lead Consultant, Safe & Civil Schools and Dr. Habib Iddrisu, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance, University of Oregon

In this engaging keynote address on building positive culture in your school or classroom, Jessica and Habib will explore strategies that can be used to build community and collective identity while honoring individuals' identity and backgrounds. By looking at cultural practices in West Africa and examining ways schools across the United States have used similar practices to build positive cultural identity, Habib and Jessica will encourage participants to reflect on ways to build culture in their schools in a continuous, intentional way. The address will inspire educators to lean into the gratifying work of making their schools a place where students, families, and staff feel a sense of pride, meaningful engagement, and belonging.

Six In-Depth Four-day Sessions

Monday, July 15 - Thursday, July 18

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT


Developing Effective Behavior Interventions
with Dr. Tricia Berg


Chronic misbehavior often gets in the way of our ability to provide effective academic instruction. The goal of this session is to expand your toolkit with intervention strategies that can support students who demonstrate challenging behaviors in your classroom. You will leave with an understanding of how to support individual student needs, including:

  • Evaluating how the classroom environment affects student behavior
  • Identifying why the behavior has become chronic or habitual
  • Designing an intervention plan that will focus on prevention, teaching skills, and motivation
  • Using data effectively throughout the intervention process
  • Creating decision rules for when to fade, maintain, or enhance intervention supports 


Participants: School personnel who support individual students with challenging behaviors, such as teachers, school psychologists, assistant principals, BCBAs, and support personnel


Included textbook: Interventions (3rd edition) and The Tough Kid Book (3rd edition)


Monday, July 15 - Thursday, July 18

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT


CHAMPS and Classroom-Based Behavioral Interventions
with Kim Earthman


Teachers who want to improve their classroom management will benefit from strategies to manage student behavior and improve stu­dent motivation. In this session, participants will learn how to use the third edition of CHAMPS to implement a proactive, positive, and instructional approach to classroom management. This session also helps teachers support the one or two students who chron­ically misbehave in spite of good classroom management. Learn to implement early-stage interventions (e.g., planned discussion, correction planning, increasing positive interactions, data collection and debrief­ing, goal setting, and building supportive relationships). If these are not effective, a function-based intervention is likely needed. This session will prepare teachers to analyze setting events and contributing factors such as lack of infor­mation or skill, need for attention, need for power or control, escape, and more. Intervention strategies are presented for each of these major functions.


Participants: Classroom teachers, teacher mentors, coaches, educational assistants, administrators

Included textbooks: CHAMPS: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management and Early-Stage Interventions


Recommended but not included: Teacher’s Encyclopedia of Behavior Management


Monday, July 15 - Thursday, July 18

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT


Explicit Instruction
with Anita Archer


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This Training of Trainers session is designed for professional developers and teacher-leaders who recognize the incredible impact that systematic, direct, engaging, and success-oriented instruction can have on students, teachers, and schools—people who, in their interactions with administrators, staff, and students, exemplify the idea that how well students learn depends on how well they’re taught. This session will immerse practitioners in the theory and practice of designing and delivering instruction in a manner that is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented—in a word: explicit. Participants will then be prepared to provide this training, as well as follow-up coaching, to educators in their home districts. Among the critical content and skills discussed are:

  • Active engagement/opportunities to respond
  • Lesson structure and design for both skills and strategies
  • Effective instructional corrections
  • Professional development techniques

 

Participants: Teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, building and district instructional leaders


Included textbook: Explicit Instruction


Monday, July 15 - Thursday, July 18

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT


Coaching CHAMPS: Building a System of Support for All Teachers
with Tricia Skyles


If you’re an instructional coach or school leader tasked with supporting teachers in implementing and sustaining best classroom management practices, this session could be a game changer. Built around the concepts of an effective MTSS system for students, we now take this same MTSS framework and use it to guide how we support staff with coaching as a vital piece in all three tiers. We will look at how administrators and nonevaluative coaches alike work to build a universal system of support for all teachers, how to engage in more formal coaching cycles for teachers in need of more targeted support, and how to build an intentional plan of assistance for those on formal plans of improvement. We will also differentiate between coaching to close a deficit in practice and coaching for teachers looking to become exemplars. This session hinges on the belief that with enough support and the right resources, improvement is always possible. 


Participants: Coaches, teacher mentors, administrators

Included materials: Coaching CHAMPS

Recommended but not included: CHAMPS (3rd ed.) or Discipline in the Secondary Classroom (4th ed.)



Monday, July 15 - Thursday, July 18

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT


Creating a Comprehensive Continuum of Support for Behavior
with Jessica Sprick


An MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Support) is built to ensure that layers of support are available to meet students’ varied needs and to help all students thrive. This session provides an overview of an MTSS for behavior and provides you with the opportunity to assess strengths and weaknesses of your current system. Leave with concrete ideas for implementation and begin thinking about ways to effectively address areas of need, including: 

  • Using a comprehensive, team-based approach to address schoolwide climate and
  • Coordinating MTSS-B efforts with other initiatives at the district level and in each building
  • Implementing an effective classroom management approach across all classrooms and helping all teachers implement classroom-based interventions
  • Designing systematic approaches and interventions for Tier 2 and 3 behavioral needs**
  • Creating sufficient layers of data collection ensure students’ needs for support are being met as early as possible and school staff can make decisions about when to fade, maintain, or intensify interventions
  • Implementing layers of collaborative problem-solving to support students and staff

 

Participants: District and building Leadership Teams, Directors, MTSS/PBIS/Climate and safety coordinators, Superintendents and assistant superintendents, Principals and assistant principals and/or anyone responsible for supervising implementation of systems of support for behavior


Included textbooks: Interventions (3rd edition)


**Note: This session does NOT provide in-depth training on specific intervention design. If you are looking to design intervention plans for individual students, attend “Developing Effective Behavior Interventions” with Tricia Berg.**


Monday, July 15 - Thursday, July 18

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT


Leadership in Behavior Support
with Jacob Edwards


Effective schools have effective leadership. The role of the principal is extremely complex, with tremendous rewards. Access to the best research- and evidence-based tools and strategies is key to every instructional leader’s success. This workshop focuses on topics related to the instructional leader’s role in:

  • Building and maintaining a positive and proactive school climate for students, staff, and the community
  • Effectively creating a shared leadership model that can support and unify staff around a schoolwide classroom management model
  • Collecting and analyzing behavior data for continuous improvement
  • Conducting powerful staff meetings and practicing effective decision making

 

Participants: This session is for principals, assistant principals, aspiring principals, district leadership, and other building leaders.


Included textbook: Leadership in Behavior Support

Conference Schedule

Sunday, July 14

6:30 pm PT

Keynote by Jessica Sprick


Monday, July 15 - Thursday, July 18

8:30 am PT – 3:30 pm PT

In-Depth Sessions

How to Register

The registration fee of $1,395 includes one four-day in-depth session for one attendee and accompanying course textbook(s). Registration fee also includes continental breakfast and lunch Monday through Thursday.

REGISTER NOW

Questions? Email info@safeandcivilschools.com 

or call 800/323-8819.


Your Stay in Portland, the City of Roses.


PORTLAND MARRIOTT
DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT

1401 SW Naito Parkway, Portland, OR 97201 • 503-226-7600


From the hotel, you’re within easy walking distance to great dining, shopping, entertainment, and Portland’s waterfront. Take in stunning river and city views while you relax and enjoy 24-hour room service. With an onsite restaurant, 24-hour fitness center, onsite parking, and more, your stay in the Marriott is convenient and flexible.


RESERVE YOUR ROOM

Reserve your room online at:

https://book.passkey.com/go/safeandciviljuly


Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact Marriott reservations at 800-546-9513.


The hotel has reserved a limited number of rooms at reduced rates starting at $225 per day single/double occupancy + tax. Reduced rates are available until these rooms fill or June 14, 2024.


**Reserve your room as soon as your registration is confirmed to receive this special rate.** The hotel does not provide shuttle service to or from the Portland International Airport. 


THINGS TO DO

 

You’ll enjoy your stay in the City of Roses. Portland is a quirky, lively city that offers a vast diversity of activities— shopping, museums, parks, a zoo, river cruises, and more.


Food options range from inexpensive but delicious street fare to 5-star fine dining. If you’re interested in entertainment, there’s theater, dancing, and all kinds of live music in a variety of venues from casual to formal.

If the city doesn’t pique your interest, you can take a quick drive to the Oregon Coast, where you can breathe the clean ocean air, enjoy fresh seafood, take in beautiful scenery, and watch sea lions.


There’s no lack of recreational opportunities near Portland. Tasting wine at Yamhill County wineries, photographing gorgeous scenery in state parks, and rambling along hiking trails in the Columbia River Gorge are just a few of the other things you can do.


For more ideas, visit traveloregon.com


Graduate-level professional development

Graduate-level professional development credit is available through UMASS Global. Credit requires additional fee and a follow-up assignment. Check with your school or district to determine whether these self-study credits are acceptable.


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