Full Catalog of Upcoming Events

 HGRESA District Members Only.

Audience: Everyone

Age Level: All

Level: Universal

Topic: This presentation series is available as a four day presentation including one day for universal mental health, two days for tier two mental health, and one day for tier three mental health.  This version is all three levels in one link.  You may also find each link separately. It will focus on proactive strategies you can use in your school to increase mental health awareness.

Topic: Classroom Management for Disruptive Behaviors. This presentation goes through many of the disruptive behaviors that can derail learning in the classroom and shares evidence-based interventions you can use.

This presentation will focus on the variety of behaviors that show up in the classroom when teaching 4-7-year-old students. We are seeing more and more behaviors with this age group that typical interventions are not accomplishing the goal of decreasing the disruptions in the classroom.  Dr. Riffel will share scenarios from real students around the world and the interventions employed that really worked ameliorate these behaviors.

This class is limited to participants from Heart of Georgia RESA member systems.

Topic: Classroom Management for Disruptive Behaviors. This presentation goes through many of the disruptive behaviors that can derail learning in the classroom and shares evidence-based interventions you can use.

This presentation will focus on the variety of behaviors that show up in the classroom when teaching 7-11-year-old students. The curriculum demands of second through fifth grade require students to engage in less movement. Many of the students have behaviors that are disruptive to the learning of the class.  This presentation will go through behavior by behavior and show real life student behaviors and the interventions that ameliorated those behaviors.

This class is limited to participants from Heart of Georgia RESA member systems.

Topic: Classroom Management for Disruptive Behaviors. This presentation goes through many of the disruptive behaviors that can derail learning in the classroom and shares evidence-based interventions you can use.

This presentation will focus on the variety of behaviors that show up in the classroom when teaching 12-18-year-old students. Secondary teachers frequently point to escaping work and gaining attention as the reasons behind behaviors. This presentation will show participants how to ameliorate the typical behaviors by instituting proactive solutions. Dr. Riffel will share examples from real students she has worked with over the years and the solutions that made the behaviors disappear. So often, participants in a seminar will say, “What do you do about a student who has (xyz) behavior?”  The truth is there is no one answer for the “xyz” behavior question. The answer lies in understanding the function of the behavior and putting proactive strategies in place to restructure the environment, replace the behavior, and reframe our response.

This class is limited to participants from Heart of Georgia RESA member systems.

Audience: ALL

Age Level: All

Level: Universal

Topic: Climate/ Relationships: This presentation will give you tried and true ways to build relationships with students. The ideas are from Marzano, Dufour, Wong and many others who have researched the topic. We will share what our schools have done to help build relationships between peers to peers and peers to adults.

Time: Two Hours

This class is for members of Heart of Georgia RESA only.

Topic: Classroom Management: This presentation is a shorter version of the tried-and-true methods which will help take control of the classroom using evidence-based interventions. We cover things like disruptions, non-compliance, blurting, and other behaviors that can derail your classroom.

This is the short version of the classroom management tier two strategies with interventions for classroom teachers to deal with the following behaviors:

• Ten Rules that Govern Behavior.
• Blurting or disruptive behavior
• Reinforcing Replacement Behavior

Dr. Riffel will show you how to determine the summary statement to behavioral issues:

Trigger-Target-impacT; then she will show you how to build an effective intervention plan for Blurting or Disruptive Behaviors using:

• Revision of the Environment
• Replacement of the Behavior
• Reframing of the Response

This class is for members of Heart of Georgia RESA only.

Audience: All

Age Level: All

Level: Tier Two

Topic: Classroom Management: This is a two-day version of strategies to implement in the classroom. One person who attended this training told us, “I thought when I heard we were going to be talking about behavior for two days there was no way it would be interesting. Boy was I wrong. I learned so much.”  We focus on a myriad of behaviors and interventions that we know to work for things like physical aggression, class clown, and so much more.

Time: Ten hours

This class is for members of Heart of Georgia RESA only.

Audience: All

Age Level: All

Level: Tier Two

Topic: Classroom Management: This presentation is a longer version of the tried-and-true methods which will help take control of the classroom using evidence-based interventions. We cover things like disruptions, non-compliance, blurting, and other behaviors that can derail your classroom. This adds behavior strategies for some of the more disruptive behaviors we see in the classroom.

Time: 8 hours

This class is for members of Heart of Georgia RESA only.

Seeing many referrals for students who become dysregulated and lose control in the classroom? This presentation will focus on teaching students the emotions they are feeling and most importantly, how to use their words when they have these feelings.

Audience: Administrators, All Educators, Ancillary Staff, Counselors, Psychologists, Special Education Educators

Age Level: All

Level: Universal

Topic: Self-Regulation and Using Words is the main topic.  This is based on research conducted in the southeast in a town with a high population of children born to opioid addicted mothers. The children were showing signs of emotional instability upon entering school and were disrupting the learning environment for all. We observed triggers and impacts of this behavior and developed a strategy to help the students be successful in the classrooms.

Time: Two Hours

This class is for members of Heart of Georgia RESA only.

Audience: All and SPED

Age Level: All

Level: Tier Three

Topic: Behavior Support: We see a lot of cookie cutter behavior support plans. This presentation will focus on how to take the information you are using from your functional behavior assessment and turn it into a data-based behavioral intervention plan.

Time: Five Hours

This class is for members of Heart of Georgia RESA only.

Participants will learn the functions behind behavior and ways to incorporate Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports on the bus. We will also cover disabilities and how those disabilities might affect behavior on the bus.

Audience: Transportation Providers (Drivers and Assistants) and all Administrators

Age Level: All

Level: Universal

Topic: In order to support transportation personnel, we have developed a training that helps transportation providers interact with schools on universal behavior support. The bus is part of the school day and as such it should be part of the expectations of the school.

Time: Four hours

This class is restricted to Heart of Georgia RESA systems' members.

 Audience: Admin, Pre-K through 2nd-grade teachers, Ancillary Staff, Counselors, Psychologists, SPED

Age Level: Pre-K through Second Grade

Level: Tier Two and Tier Three

Topic: This was specifically designed for HGRESA to coincide with the Department of Education Guidelines for Students with Dyslexia.

Participants will learn:

• Specific charges from the Georgia Department of Education on Dyslexia:

• Evidence-Based Reading Practice in the MTSS process
• Screening for all students
• Evaluation for students suspected of having Dyslexia
• Scientifically based Interventions for helping students with dyslexia

Audience: Admin, Third- Sixth grade teachers, Ancillary Staff, Counselors, Psychologists, SPED

Age Level: Third through Sixth Grade

Level: Tier Two and Tier Three

Topic: This was specifically designed for HGRESA to coincide with the Department of Education Guidelines for Students with Dyslexia.

Time: 7 hours

Participants will learn:

• Specific charges from the Georgia Department of Education on Dyslexia:

• Evidence-Based Reading Practice in the MTSS process
• Screening for all students
• Evaluation for students suspected of having Dyslexia
• Scientifically based Interventions for helping students with dyslexia

Audience: Administrators, All Staff

Age Level: All

Level: Universal in that everyone should be using this technique for their tier two and tier three students who have trouble regulating their emotions.

Topic: This is a proactive strategy taught to all students within the school because at any moment any of us can lose our sense of control and need strategies to stay cool, calm, and collected. As adults, most of us have perfected that. We need to teach our students the words to use and the technique to use to calm themselves down before they lose composure.

Time: 5 hours

Audience: Administrators, All Secondary Educators, All Staff in General and Special Education

Age Level: Secondary

Level: Universal

Topic: The Flipping the Script on Classroom Meltdowns is a specially developed series on helping all students work on self-regulation and gives staff specific skills to use proactively, during a meltdown, and reflection. There are four possible age levels in this series: Pre-K through Second Grade, Upper Elementary, Secondary, and one that covers all ages.  It is designed for ages 18 months to 18 years. The links that are within the series are ready for download to use in building amygdala recalibration centers within your classroom.

Time: Six Hours

Audience: Admin, Secondary Teachers, Ancillary Staff, Counselors, Psychologists, SPED

Age Level: Middle and High School

Level: Tier Two and Tier Three

Topic: This was specifically designed for HGRESA to coincide with the Department of Education Guidelines for Students with Dyslexia.

Time: 7 hours

Participants will learn:

• Specific charges from the Georgia Department of Education on Dyslexia:

• Evidence-Based Reading Practice in the MTSS process
• Screening for all students
• Evaluation for students suspected of having Dyslexia
• Scientifically based Interventions for helping students with dyslexia
• Specific strategies and examples will be shared at the secondary level of how to incorporate reading instruction in core classes like history, English, social studies, and more.

Audience: Administrators, All Elementary Staff at the Third-Sixth Grade Level

Age Level: Third-Sixth Grade

Level: Universal

Topic: Teaching children how to self-regulate. When our children graduate and enter the world as employees, they will not lose their jobs because they do not know how to read, write, or do math.  They will lose their jobs because they do not know how to cooperatively work with others, solve problems, manage their emotions, or ask for help in a meaningful way. This presentation will help staff members teach proactively the strategies their students will need  now and in the future.

Time: 5 hours

Audience: Administrators, All Staff in General and Special Education, Cafeteria Staff, Family, and Transportation Providers.

Age Level: All

Level: Universal

Topic: Based on research conducted since 2014, we interviewed students and asked them this question: “What would mean the world to you? What could someone give you that would let you know you had done a good job; however, it can’t cost any money?”  We wrote down their answers and have since categorized them into age level and overarching themes: Privileges, Attention, Leadership Opportunities, Praise, Assistance, Touch, Escape, and we added school supplies. (No child said they’d like to earn school supplies; however, we work in some very low-income areas where students do not have someone to purchase school supplies for them that they need. We know a hand-out feels bad when you are poor and giving students the opportunity to earn school supplies helps with their self-esteem.

Time: Two hours

Audience: All

Age Level: All

Level: Tier Two and Tier Three

Topic: Functional Behavior Assessment is the main focus of Behavior Doctor Seminars and Teacheropedia. We have developed a free tool that graphs antecedent, behavior, and consequence data in order to make data collection easy to understand and use to write a data-based behavior support plan. It is available in a one- or two-day presentation. In the two-day presentation, you will get the opportunity to enter data yourself and make decisions.

Time: 8 hours

Audience: All

Age Level: All

Level: Tier Two and Tier Three

Topic: Functional Behavior Assessment is the main focus of Behavior Doctor Seminars and Teacheropedia. We have developed a free tool that graphs antecedent, behavior, and consequence data in order to make data collection easy to understand and use to write a data-based behavior support plan. It is available in a one- or two-day presentation. In the two-day presentation, you will get the opportunity to enter data yourself and make decisions.

Time: Twelve Hours

Audience: Special Education and Administrators

Age Level: All

Level: Tier Three

Topic: A functional behavior analysis is when the environment is manipulated to determine the function behind the behavior. This works well for determining function when you have a student who is non-verbal. You will see real-world applications of this presentation.

Time: Five Hours

Audience: All Staff and Family Members

Age Level: All

Level: Universal

Topic: This focus on mental health will help a school develop a Mental Health Fair for a Saturday. It goes through the things to consider prior to implementing a whole day mental health fair for staff and family members.

Time: 36 hours of a guided self-study with ideas of who to contact in your community to assist in creating a wealth of information for your community, staff, and family members.

Audience: Administrators, All Elementary and Primary Staff Members

Age Level: Primary and Elementary

Level: Universal

Topic: Teaching children how to self-regulate. When our children graduate and enter the world as employees, they will not lose their jobs because they do not know how to read, write, or do math.  They will lose their jobs because they do not know how to cooperatively work with others, solve problems, manage their emotions, or ask for help in a meaningful way. This presentation will help staff members teach proactively the strategies their students will need  now and in the future.

Time: Five Hours

Age Level: All

Level: Tier Three

Topic: This presentation is written using the Georgia Department of Education Guidelines for Dyslexia specifically for HGRESA to assist family members in supporting their children who have dyslexia.

This is a two-hour video and handout for family members. It will focus on preschool through high school strategies that parents can employ to help their children be successful in school and life.

Audience: All

Age Level: All

Level: All Three tiers

Topic: This was written specifically for HGRESA using information provided by the Georgia Department of Education on Improving School Climate.

Time: Five hours plus implementation time

Using the information from the STAR School Climate Survey Results, we will address:

• Building Relationships Between Staff, Students, Family, and Community
• Addressing Bullying and Fighting
• Safety
• Academic Growth
• Behavioral Growth

This presentation will share evidence-based strategies from around the US. 

Georgia’s Survey on School Climate looks at the following:

• Survey- a measure of student, teacher, and family member perceptions of the school’s climate

• Student discipline- a measure of student discipline using a weighted suspension rate

• Safe and Substance-Free Learning Environment- school discipline incidents and student survey responses on the use of illegal substances and the prevalence of violence, bullying, and unsafe incidents within a school

• Attendance- the average daily attendance of teachers, administrators, and staff members and the percentage of students absent less than 10% of the enrolled days.

Introduction: Before you begin the introduction, please pull your STAR Climate Survey Results and run copies for all staff. You will look at the results after watching the short introduction.