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“Reducing Workplace Violence means Increasing Workplace Safety
through Positive Behavior Supports”
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Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports Training
PBIS Approach to Classroom Culture Change
Feeling Safe is a pre-requisite to learning. As The Mandt System® looks to support school personnel in creating cultures that promote safety, we understand the process involves more than just physical security -it includes relational, emotional, and psychosocial facets as well.
Thank you for the opportunity to share an overview of The Mandt System® program, PBIS Approach to Classroom Culture Change: Reduce Restraint and Coercion to Promote Safe, Accountable Learning Communities. This 1-day professional development training will provide your school personnel with the tools they need to significantly increase the quality and quantity of classroom instructional outcomes.
The Mandt System® was developed on the premise that people learn best when they feel safe, and that the key to successful program implementation is in the relationships formed and maintained in the classroom. We practiced positive behavior support before we knew it had a name, and have continued to develop innovative procedures to reduce the potential for violence in all human service settings, including education. Our organization is committed to partnering with school personnel in creating cultures and educational communities that promote safety, and who want to utilize a comprehensive PBIS training program to do more than anger management or crisis prevention. The focus is on reducing, if not eliminating, workplace and school violence by learning how to “support people, not just their behaviors”™. According to Brendtro and Long (1995), healthy human relationships, where individuals feel a strong sense of connection, are the most effective means to reduce violent behavior. Affirming the importance positive relationships play in violence reduction, Kauffman (2005), added an intervention component and stated the best way to prevent antisocial behavior is proactive academic and social skills instructional planning to avoid coercion, power-based struggles, and failure. The Mandt System® trainings help educational organizations realize these goals by first building healthy relationships between and among all the stakeholders within the culture.
Schools are now required to provide more services with dwindling resources. Budget reductions, teacher shortages, and increasing populations of students identified as having a disability that require costly intervention and support services are straining already overburdened systems. Compounding those issues, several significant investigatory studies released since January, 2009 document alarming rates and unacceptable practices of restraint and seclusion abuse in our nation's schools. Children who were most often victimized were those with disabilities and students exhibiting troubled behavior (USGAO, 2009). In response, and to support schools in restoring balance and safe learning/work environments, the Mandt System® developed and provides research-based and proven effective PBIS training programs for educational administration, teachers, and other school personnel.
The Mandt System®, a positive approach, is based on supporting people not just their behaviors. Unfortunately, many educational classroom policies and procedures employ punitive or coercive practices. Zero-tolerance initiatives and compliant or coercive management methods dehumanize children, threaten our sense of safety, and incite rebellion and retributive behavior (Brendtro, 2008). We know safety is conveyed through respectful school policies and classroom management practices. Building positive and respectful relationships, staff-to-staff and staff-to-student, forms the foundation for creating safe and inviting school cultures.
As a result of using our program, over 500 schools have been able to:
- Reduce the use of restraint
- Reduce the number of behavioral referrals
- Increase time spent in the classroom
- Increase instructional time
- Facilitate a more positive, engaging and collaborative educational experience for all students.
The Mandt System® invites your district's schools to enjoy similar success! Our 1-day PBIS Approach to Classroom Culture Change: Reduce Restraint and Coercion to Promote Safe, Accountable Learning Communities program is a cost effective and time efficient way to provide quality training during professional development days. Leadership and sound business practice have shown that the best investment any organization can make is to invest in its people.
Participants who attend the training can expect to accomplish the following outcomes:
- Examine the elements necessary to create safe learning environments
- Discuss why coercion, compliance, and restraint are counterproductive
- Explore PBIS instructional strategies that promote restorative discipline for positive, strength-based, engaged, and responsible student behavior
- Create practical and immediate implementation plans
- Obtain additional resource information
Dr. Karen Heller is an international presenter, trainer, consultant, and member of the National Training Faculty of The Mandt System. Having earned her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership and Conflict Management and a Masters of Arts in Deafness Rehabilitation Counseling and Educational Program Administration, Karen has over 27 years of special education classroom teaching, administrative, and personnel training experience in K-12 public, postsecondary, and human service/mental health settings. Her experience encompasses teaching and working with a broad array of individuals with disabilities in the areas of hearing impaired, visually impaired, deaf/blind, behaviorally disruptive, learning disabled, and individuals with autism spectrum disorders. As a trainer in the Special Education Student Services Division of the 5th largest school district in the nation, over a 5-year period, Dr. Heller presented to and trained thousands of administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals and support staff in PBIS programs, including The Mandt System®.
Karen's "we're all in the trenches together" approach engages, inspires and motivates participants. A former college Assistant Vice President and four time invited presenter to the International Conference on Social Tolerance and Civility in Russia, Dr. Heller has collaborated with educational, government, organizational, and social service agency personnel in the United States, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Russia and Canada in Positive Behavior Support systems, building positive workplace cultures, conflict management, and teambuilding.
For additional information and to schedule training, please contact:
Kevin Mandt at (800) 810-0755 ext: 102
www.mandtsystem.com
References
Brendtro, Larry, K. (2008). From coercive to strength-based interventions: responding to the needs of children in pain. Retrieved January 22, 2009, from http://www/cyc-net.org/features/ft-strengthbased.html
Brentro, L. & Long, N. (1995). Breaking the cycle of conflict. Educational Leadership, (52)5, p. 52-26.
Kauffman, J. (2005).Characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders of Children and Youth. (8th ed.). NY: Prentice Hall.
United States Government Accountability Office (2009). Seclusions and restraints: Selected cases of death and abuse at public and private schools and treatment centers. Testimony before the committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives. Retrieved May 29, 2009, from http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09719t.pdf.
