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Foundations 3rd Edition (Modules A-F) (Online Video)

Foundations will walk your staff through the process of designing a proactive and positive schoolwide discipline plan. The Foundations process effectively addresses how to establish a positive school climate and culture, school safety, student motivation, and academic engagement.

The six modules in Foundations (3rd ed.) guide leadership teams from planning steps and inservice through implementation:

  • Module A: Foundations of Behavior Support—A Continuous Improvement Process
  • Module B: Managing Behavior in Common Areas and With Schoolwide Policies
  • Module C: Conscious Construction of an Inviting School Climate
  • Module D: Responding to Misbehavior—An Instructional Approach
  • Module E: Improving Safety, Managing Conflict, and Reducing Bullying
  • Module F: Establishing and Sustaining a Continuum of Behavior Support

Each module includes:

  • Online video inservice presentations and vignettes (DVD version also available)
  • 8 copies of the leadership team guide
  • PowerPoint presentations to enhance staff training
  • Real-life samples from schools
  • Lesson plans to teach expected behavior
  • Reproducible forms

This product includes all six Foundations modules. The individual modules may also be purchased separately.

$1,615.00

Details:
2014 / 6-Module Set: Modules A-F (Online Video version)
ISBN:
978-1-59909-068-9
SKU:
068-9V
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Authors:
  • Randy Sprick
  • Susan J. Isaacs
  • Mike Booher
  • Jessica Sprick
  • Paula Rich
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Description

RESULTS

Districts and schools that have implemented Foundations report:

  • Reductions in disciplinary referrals, suspensions, and expulsions
  • Increases in staff coordination, consistency, and collegiality
  • Improvements in school climate
  • Increases in positive interactions between staff and students
  • Improvements in staff skill in effective supervision and Positive Behavior Supports
  • Application of data-based decision making to behavior and discipline policies

NEW IN THE THIRD EDITION

  • Reducing out-of-school suspensions
  • Improving attendance
  • Preventing bullying, and more . . .

RESEARCH VALIDATED

See Ward, B., & Gersten, R. (2013). A randomized evaluation of the Safe & Civil Schools model for positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) at elementary schools in a large urban school district. School Psychology Review, 42(3), 317–333.

Foundations is listed on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). The online National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices was discontinued in January 2018, but a link to the Safe & Civil Schools NREPP listing can be found here.

  • Randy Sprick

    Randy Sprick has worked as a paraprofessional, teacher, and teacher trainer at the elementary and secondary levels. Author of a number of widely read books on behavior and classroom management, Randy is former director of Safe & Civil Schools, a consulting company that provides inservice programs throughout the country. Although Randy is largely retired, his Safe & Civil Schools colleagues continue the work of helping large and small school districts improve student behavior and motivation. Efficacy of that work is documented in peer-reviewed research, and Safe & Civil Schools materials are listed on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). Randy was the recipient of the 2007 Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Wallin Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Direct Instruction Hall of Fame, along with numerous other awards and honors.

  • Susan J. Isaacs

    Susan J. Isaacs was a teacher for more than 20 years in the Fayette County Public School District in Lexington, Kentucky. She also served as a behavior consultant for the Kentucky Department of Education and as a statewide trainer for the Kentucky Model Schools and Kentucky Instructional Discipline and Supports initiatives. She now works as a consultant for Safe & Civil Schools, providing training and technical assistance to schools in the implementation of Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports (PBIS) and classroom management.

  • Mike Booher

    Mike Booher has worked as a school psychologist, lead school psychologist, and supervisor of psychological services for Guilford County Schools. He has developed school intervention and assistance teams, crisis intervention services, professional development activities for teachers and parents, and ADHD interventions. He also coordinated the Responsible Discipline Program (RDP), a schoolwide discipline and classroom management program based on Foundationsand CHAMPS. or much of his career, Mike worked with school crisis and suicide intervention teams. He served as a co-trainer for the district's suicide intervention training and as a co-leader of one of the district's two crisis teams. In addition, Mike has taught at several universities and served as a clinical instructor for the School Psychological Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Mike Booher has worked as a school psychologist, lead school psychologist, and supervisor of psychological services for Guilford County Schools. He has developed school intervention and assistance teams, crisis intervention services, professional development activities for teachers and parents, and ADHD interventions. He also coordinated the Responsible Discipline Program (RDP), a schoolwide discipline and classroom management program based on Foundationsand CHAMPS. or much of his career, Mike worked with school crisis and suicide intervention teams. He served as a co-trainer for the district's suicide intervention training and as a co-leader of one of the district's two crisis teams. In addition, Mike has taught at several universities and served as a clinical instructor for the School Psychological Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • Jessica Sprick

    Jessica Sprick is a consultant and presenter for Safe & Civil Schools and a writer for Ancora Publishing. Ms. Sprick has been a special education teacher for students with behavioral needs and Dean of Students at the middle school level. Her practical experience working with special and general education students and staff, along with strong training in positive behavior support techniques, drives her passion to help school personnel develop and implement effective classroom management plans.

  • Paula Rich

    Paula Rich has been a substitute teacher in public schools, was a freelance musician, and taught private music lessons for many years in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. More recently, she contributed original stories and poems to the Read Well curriculum for second-grade readers and edited several of Randy Sprick’s staff development and behavior management books and papers. She was instrumental in developing Connections, Ancora Publishing's online check-and-connect program.