PBS Special Topics List
Self-Regulation – Getting Students in the “Teachable Moment”
One Day workshop. Presented by Risha Golby and Jody Langlois
Workshop Description
This one day workshop will examine Self-Regulation within a PBS framework. This will
include teaching participants about Self-Regulation as a School Wide universal intervention, a
secondary intervention as well as a tertiary strategy. Participants will learn about the foundation
behind self-regulation, and will be provided with practical applications of self-regulation
techniques at each of the levels.
This is a Tier One workshop.
Email contacts for presenters: jlanglois@sd48.bc.ca r_golby@hotmail.com
From Safety Plans to Crisis Management Plans to Behaviour Plans – How Do They Fit
Together?
One Day Workshop. Presented by: Risha Golby, Laurie Smith, and Jody Langlois
Workshop Description
This workshop will examine the differences, similarities and interactions between Safety Plans,
Crisis Management Plans, and Behaviour Plans based on a functional assessment perspective.
Participants will learn about Work Safe BC regulations around Safety Plans, as well as how to
create Positive Behaviour Support Behaviour Plans and Crisis Management Plans.
This is a Tier Three workshop
Email contacts for presenters: jlanglois@sd48.bc.ca r_golby@hotmail.com
Behaviour Plans – Even You Can Do It
One Day Workshop. Presented by: Jody Langlois
Workshop Description
Participants will learn to create Positive Behaviour Support Plans for individual students based
on a Functional Assessment perspective. Functions of behaviour will be examined, and practical
strategies for use in a behaviour plan will be discussed.
Tis is a Tier Three workshop
Email contact for presenter: jlanglois@sd48.bc.ca
School Culture & Climate: How Does ERASE Fit in a PBS Framework ?
Half or full day workshop. Presented by Janice Coomer and or Nicci Beninger
Workshop description
This workshop explores how using a positive behaviour support framework can facilitate school
connectedness and improves school culture, climate and safety.
This is a Tier One workshop
Email contact for presenters: jhfcoomer@gmail.com NBeninger@sd38.bc.ca
Calm in the Classroom
One Day Workshop. Presented by: Jody Langlois
Workshop Description
Based on the principles of functions of behaviour, this workshop will provide participants with
an understanding of why students behave as they do, and how to best support them to encourage
positive behaviour in the classroom. Participants will learn a wide variety of practical strategies
for use in the classroom, small groups, and with individual students.
This is a Tier One workshop
Email contact for presenter: jlanglois@sd48.bc.ca
Using Data to Create Responsive Systems
Half or full day workshop, Presented by Nathan Ngieng
Workshop description
When? Where? Who? What? How often? With whom?...
These are often questions that we ask when trying to deal with problem behaviour in a proactive
manner. How can we effectively manage and use data to help drive the decisions we make about
student behaviour? How can we create an environment of success for our students and build
positive relationships using the data? How can we make our classroom or whole school systems
more effective and our strategies more proactive and timely with reliable and accurate data?
This session will focus on these questions through addressing the need for consistent collection
of office referral data and, more importantly, how this data can be used to improve the success of
student and school-wide plans so that higher levels of academic and social success can be
achieved.
This is a Tier One Workshop
Email contact for presenter: Nathan_Ngieng@sd33.bc.ca
Effective Leadership for Positive Behaviour Supports
One or two days. Presented by Tom Schimmer
Workshop Description
With the implementation of PBS systems, leadership matters! Designed for district and school
administrators, as well as teacher-leaders, this session will highlight effective leadership strategies,
mindsets, and practices that will maximize the success of your PBS implementation efforts. In the end,
participants will not only solidify their own fluency and capacity with PBS systems, but also come to
know how to begin or sustain their PBS implementation within their specific context.
This is a Tier One workshop
Email contact for presenter: tschimmer@live.ca
Social Responsibility: A Curriculum
Full day Workshop. Presented by Nicci Beninger
Workshop Description
This workshop presents a curriculum that not only provides school wide language but skills that
teachers can use to help children understand their responsibilities as they relate to other students
and adults.
Teachers will learn how to use the teachable moments to continue to reinforce the concepts and
skills in the lessons.
The lessons and activities are designed around the following topics:
Levels of Social Responsibility
Empathy
Anger Management
Conflict Resolution - from sharing to teasing to bullying
Resilience
Bystander Behaviour.
The workshop includes lesson plans, follow up activities and literature based enhancement
activities.All lessons are divided into early primary, primary, early intermediate and intermediate
so that activities and vocabulary are age appropriate.
This is a Tier One workshop
Email contact for presenter: NBeninger@sd38.bc.ca
I’ve Taught Social Skills….But These Kids Don’t Get It!
Half or full day workshop. Presented by Cheryl Hofweber
Workshop description:
Social and emotional skills are critical for all children in their development as good students,
citizens and workers, becoming fully engaged members of society. Some students continue to
demonstrate acting out or withdrawn behaviours in spite of good social skill instruction at the
classroom level. To support these students’ learning, it is necessary to explore social emotional
learning a little deeper, in order to understand and address their underlying needs. This session
will focus on strategies that will help targeted students develop increased resilience by
integrating core social emotional competencies into classroom and small group instruction.
This is a Tier Two workshop
Email contact for presenter: chofweber@hotmail.com
A Tiered Approach to Anger Management
Full Day. Presenter: Nicci Beninger
Workshop description:
Gaining an understanding of anger:
This workshop has two purposes:
1. The educators will gain an understanding of anger and how to work with all children so that
they are better able to manage their anger.
2. This session will present the skills and language that all students would be taught as a Tier
One Intervention for anger management. Lesson plans and practical activities will be included.
Following that, a series of small group interventions or systemic interventions for Tier Two
Interventions will be introduced. Activities will be included.
Finally, strategies for including these understandings in a Behaviour Plan for a Tier Three
intervention will be discussed. ( This is not a workshop on writing FBAs)
This is a Tier One workshop
Email contact for presenter: NBeninger@sd38.bc.ca