Training

PBIS Tier 1 Training is a collaboration among your District, the Georgia Department of Education and RESA School Climate Specialists. The process involves the beginning stages of PBIS implementation and builds on critical elements needed for implementation with fidelity

PBIS Boosters are also available for PBIS Leadership teams who have experienced significant turnover or who need additional in-depth training and support with a restart for their PBIS implementation.

Universal Classroom for Educators

Universal Classroom for Educators is a collaboration among your District, the Georgia Department of Education and RESA School Climate Specialists. This full-day classroom face-to-face training focuses on how to establish a school-wide system to support the implementation of Classroom PBIS practices.

PBIS in the Classroom Modules are designed to be used with the support of the school PBIS leadership team to integrate PBIS practices in the classroom.


Tier 2 Training is a collaboration among your District, the Georgia Department of Education and RESA School Climate Specialists. Once Tier 1 systems are in place and implemented with fidelity teams will see improvement in the accuracy with which they can identify and deliver appropriate levels of support to the most appropriate students. Teams begin the process of purposefully phasing in Tier 2 supports built around Evidence-based Interventions.

PBIS Early Learning

The GaDOE and DECAL developed PBIS Classroom Early Learning Modules for Pre-K through third grade elementary school teachers. The modules are designed to help teachers structure positive supportive learning environments by embedding early learning and social-emotional practices into Tier I PBIS systems of support. Based on the Pyramid Model framework designed for young children (The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations), these modules will equip educators in elementary environments with a toolkit of age and developmentally appropriate strategies to prevent challenging behaviors from occurring in the classroom and support the whole child.

SWIFT @ SWIS

School-Wide Information System (SWIS) and Check-In Check-Out (CICO-SWIS)

School Climate Specialists can assist your district with readiness activities, Swift at SWIS boosters and Check-In Check-Out facilitator support.


Check and Connect

Check and Connect is an intervention used with K-12 students who show warning signs of disengagement with school and who are at risk of dropping out.

Check & Connect Preparation and Implementation Training is a 1-day training that provides education administrators and lead staff (decision-making stakeholders) with a thorough overview of Check & Connect and its background as well as information about how to prepare their site for implementing Check & Connect.

Check & Connect Mentor Training is a 2-day in-depth, competency-based training designed to provide Check & Connect mentors with the information, competencies, and skills needed to be an effective Check & Connect mentor at their local site.

School Climate Specialists can assist your district with readiness activities, Preparation and Implementation Training and Mentor Training.

Youth Mental Health First Aid Training

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders.

Mental Health Awareness Training in collaboration with the Georgia Department of Education

Classroom Management for Creating a Positive Learning Environment

This one day workshop will enhance your classroom management style and help you learn strategies that will enable you to create and maintain a positive learning environment. Learn techniques for developing routines, procedures and expectations for student behavior that will create the foundation for student learning. Learn to prevent problem behaviors as well as how to respond when they occur. Explore the critical role data collection and relationships play in the day to day success of students. Learn how the integration of PBIS practices in the classroom is measured by the Tiered Fidelity Inventory, a fidelity instrument used by the PBIS team to examine Tier 1 implementation.

Upcoming Regional Trainings:

Emotional Poverty

This one day workshop is based on the book:

Emotional Poverty in All Demographics: How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in the Classroom by Dr. Ruby Payne

During this workshop teachers will learn:

The origins of anger, anxiety, and avoidance

A language to talk about brain regulation, integration, and emotional competence

Strategies to address and reduce anger, anxiety, and avoidance

Tools to motivate good behavior

The differences in male and female emotional processing