In my career, I am most proud of three things, but in addition to that there is one aspect of ...
Measuring Student Performance in Therapeutic Programs During Distance Learning Even after the forced school closings of 2020 have generally ceased, ...
This scale is a teaching tool, designed to provide the settling student with continuous and incremental feedback on their progress ...
The Social Detecting Worksheet This adult-facilitated worksheet is used with students who experience frequent misperceptions in social situations, leading to ...
The Severity and Intensity of Behavior Scale Intensity of behavior is a relevant qualifying variable in the case of most ...
Tracking Episode Data: Episode Coding Much of student behavior is captured by the tolerance, engagement and participation data. Related: Intensity ...
A Comprehension Guide With a Coupon Program Direct Download ...
A Comprehension Guide Part of the Good Fit Program Being a Good Sport ...
I was out walking the other day and I took a detour into the woods. I took the detour so ...
The most effective social emotional learning efforts are the ones that happen in real time in the classroom (more so ...
Empathy is the capacity to understand, experience and care about the emotions of others. This involves the ability to perceive ...
The materials below include guidelines and specific ideas about how to Support Children Who are Home due to the corona ...
Monitoring Student Engagement, Tolerance and Program Participation (BBTIPC) It is common, at the end of the school day, for the ...
Closing the Comprehension Gap Many children have difficulty processing social situations. Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder have known difficulties ...
This document is intended as a guide for teachers, so they can help parents make the transition from anecdotal notes ...
Prior to going into more detail about the Coupon Program it is important to understand the role of student comprehension ...
Comprehension guides support children when comprehension breakdown is a significant contributor to their emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom ...
A Student Performance Rating Scale: The Brain-Based Therapeutic Intervention Program for Children The below comprehensive rating form can be used ...
Restorative breaks are used to help children cope with a generalized rising stress level or mood-dysregulated state. Breaks are a ...
Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life Soft skills are a combination of social skills, work habits, communication ...
Use any of these scales, together with the Calm and Settled Visual in the section on Taking a Break Comprehension ...
The Green Zone is a recognition program on a large magnetic board with three major color zones, Green, Yellow, and ...
Understanding the Daily Green Zone Ratings The Green Zone is a recognition program on a large magnetic board with three ...
This comprehension guide is intended to improve student comprehension of restorative breaks (https://kevinplummerphd.com/restorative-breaks/). See Improving Comprehension of the Nuances of ...
Check charts are probably the most familiar behavior management tool to school staff and parents. In response to disruptive behavior, ...
This is presentation providing an excellent overview of how to support trauma-impacted students in the classroom. Please also refer to ...
Welcome to this series on fostering resilience in children—the role of the family. In this series, you will have a ...
It is incumbent upon educators to develop increased trauma sensitivity as they welcome the return of children back to school ...
Some students will enter the school year more impacted by trauma. Some of these students were trauma-impacted before the pandemic ...
Dealing With the Emotional Impact of the Pandemic on Educators and Returning Students We must give serious thought to the ...
The following is a list of materials to understand and support trauma-impacted students in the classroom. The primary objective in ...
Children who have been impacted by trauma have brains and bodies that are primed to react quickly —to feel threatened—even ...
Protective factors can contribute significantly to children’s ability to successfully cope with the circumstances or recover from them more quickly ...
Nearly 50% of all children have experienced one or more of these circumstances or events, and many have experienced them ...
This article details the physiological, emotional, psychological, and cognitive impacts of complex trauma such as: Unregulated Stress Response System; Impaired ...
Definitions of "trauma supportive" including description of "trauma sensitive" and "trauma informed" school environments. Please also see the Guide to ...
This set of guidelines is organized into two major sections. The first section is a listing of dozens of supportive ...
Working in education (especially in therapeutic programs) will wear you down and wear you out unless you do something about ...
This article will present guidelines for using routines, and is helpful after reading one of the two seminal articles Important ...
This is a "coupon program" designed to increase greater self-control in young students (ages 6-12) who are in the habit ...
The ADHD Coupon Program is designed to develop increased independence and self-monitoring skills in ADHD students, along with increased motivation ...
Back to Work ...
Teaching during this pandemic has been an arduous challenge for so many reasons that could not have been fully anticipated, ...
6/20/20 Just checking in again, now that we're reaching the end of the school year, a year like no other ...
There are many "unofficial" leaders in a school building and sometimes there are "official" leaders who lack leadership legitimacy. All ...
Almost anyone can learn the methods associated with the Brain Based Therapeutic Intervention Program for Children (BBTIPC), but what people ...
For information about how to use this resource and how to create a resilience plan, refer to the Compassion Fatigue ...
A restorative break can be used to help children who are perseverating on or “stuck” on a particular problem and ...
On my first father's day without a father I'm reminded that, although I am no artist, as my father was, ...
Food Hoarder Exercising Grocery Store Patience II ...
Bank Card Debacle A shaky old man in line in front of me at the grocery store tried to pay ...
It was not the first day of winter but it felt like it today because it was the first snow ...
It's a warm Friday afternoon and I'm out of work a little early. I breathe easier as I leave 95 ...
Gabe, I believe your defense is a week from this Friday. So, soon you'll defend your dissertation, reach the end ...
Happy birthday Ben. Being your dad has always been a privilege and a tremendous gift to me and that hasn't ...
A therapeutic classroom provides children who have moderate to severe self-control and self-regulation problems (due to emotional, behavioral, social and ...
This program is designed to increase greater self-control in students who are verbally impulsive. This includes behavior such as, frequent ...
Printable coupons for use in the Impulsive Responding Program. direct pdf download Related Articles: Impulsive Responding Program (directions) Impulsive Responding ...
Hold Onto Your Thoughts Sometimes while you're doing your work quietly at your desk and the teacher is working with ...
Prior to starting the Impulsive Responding Program with a student the Impulsive Responding Guidebook should be read with the student ...
Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide to Materials. This scale can be used as an alternative measure of distress ...
Worn Out can be used as an alternative to stress or frustration. Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide to ...
This scale can be used as an alternative measure of distress for students. Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide ...
The Distress Support Plan is a visual guide what a student can do, and/or what a teacher can do to ...
This is an example of a comprehension guide that is specific to a particular student. Each student's story may be ...
This narrative can be used with the Distress Tolerance program. This is an example of a feeling profile that is ...
This visual support helps student identify behaviors that can alleviate frustration... Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide to Materials ...
Build positive relationships and increase student motivation. This comprehensive guide (2019) includes information about: Talk Less and Show More—Visual Support ...
Work engagement and compassion satisfaction are protective factors in the prevention of job burnout and compassion fatigue, so we should ...
People who work with trauma-impacted children, emotionally impacted children, and children who are highly emotionally reactive are vulnerable to the ...
The lists within this document are not psychometric measures of risk for compassion fatigue. There is no way to derive ...
Strengths and Protective Factors for Minimizing Compassion Fatigue Compassion fatigue is a stress condition with stress responses falling into two ...
The initial goal of the therapeutic program is to increase student engagement and productivity over the course of the school ...
Comprehension Guide : Learning Something New • please also see: Gradient of Knowing Program Direct pdf download: Gradient of Knowing ...
Distress From Not Knowing Enough: The Gradient of Knowing Program A Comprehension Guide please also see: Gradient of Knowing Visual ...
The safe room is the last stage of de-escalation, and only implemented because the student cannot be kept safe by ...
Use this tool to evaluate the level of therapeutic communication in the classroom and to set goals for increasing proficiency ...
This article is a summary of therapeutic communication recommendations. For any questions about specific recommendations and a thorough explanation, rationale ...
Today I celebrate you by telling you that 28 years ago, on the day you were born, my life became ...
Happy 27th birthday Gabe. I celebrate your love of people and your love of games and life. I celebrate your ...