Guest Lectures: Randy Sprick
| Apr ’09 |
| 23 |
| 9:00 am |
Positive Behavior Support:
Promoting Safety and Civility in Schools
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. JRP Hall Room 150
Dr. Randy Sprick
President, Safe and Civil Schools
In this presentation, Randy Sprick will review his 30 years of work exploring student behavior in the classroom. Randy’s Safe and Civil Schools Series (www.safeandcivilschools.com) is a comprehensive set of practical materials designed to help schools improve the safety and civility of all their school settings. The positive behavior support procedures embodied in these activities and teacher-support materials involve three broad types of interventions: (a) proactive, (b) positive, and (c) instructional interventions. These three types of interventions provide a framework for school personnel to identify variables they can manipulate to encourage responsible student behavior.
Presentation Articles:
Download an expanded description of Dr. Sprick’s work over the past 30 years.
Using both Academic and Behavioral Interventions to Close the Achievement Gap
Jim Knight, Randall Sprick, Jean B. Schumaker and Donald D. Deshler
Civil Schools Are Safe Schools: But Are They Attainable?
Randy Sprick, Ph.D.
Closing the Reading Gap
Peggy Petrilli
Video from the Presentation:
4 Comments on “Guest Lectures: Randy Sprick”
Subscribe to the Comments RSS Feed
April 30th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I’ve been wondering, has anyone looked into applying and adapting Randy’s work to issues like online civility and cyber-bullying?
Aaron
May 5th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I think part of this is a little different than what you are talking about, Aaron, but it is somewhat along the same lines. Our school has used a lot of Sprick’s stuff in establishing a school-wide system of positive behavioral supports (he actually uses our data at some of his national conferences because of the amazing success we have had and data we have kept). When he talks about creating physical and emotional safety, we used some technology to help promote this in what I consider to be somewhat unique way. We created anonymous online reporting systems for reporting bullying incidents (including cyber-bullying) in addition to putting an interactive map online to allow students to help us identify “hot spots” where bullying was occurring (this is in addition to doing the surveys he talks about). This was, of course, in conjunction with many other efforts. In addition, as a part of the proactive part, we do include some lessons in the charachter education component of our schoolwide system of supports that educates students as to issues regarding online safety, civility, and cyber-bullying which is incorporated in several places as a part of the curriculum of our middle school. We have also outlined different tiers of bullying offenses, which are responded to with different levels of intensity (these are both typical bullying behaviors as well as online and deal with issues such as intensity, persistence, etc.). I don’t know that I would fully say we have a full continum of supports for online civility and cyber-bullying, but I do think we are well on the way. Educating staff as to the problem is a huge first step, since this, like much of the other problems in schools, happens where “no one sees it”- so much of it happens outside school (home, etc.), and yet it can still profoundly affect students in the school environment. That is one of the big challenges!
May 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Thanks April! That’s very informative. I’m glad to see there’s some crossover into a newer domain.
Aaron
May 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I found Randy’s presentation to be useful. Particularly, I was interested in the areas he mentions at the end where more research and work is needed, including the issue of the ratio of positive interactions to corrective interactions with students. I also think more research looking at ranking consequences in terms of effectiveness is crucial.
Finally, as a teacher at a comprehensive high school, I would like information on methods teachers can use to collect systematic data on students for whom universal behavior management methods fail. Are there training opportunities for those of us eager to become data collectors?