Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Best Practice for Behavioral Interventions

Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Best Practice for Behavioral Interventions:
An Introduction to Ripple Effects Multi-media Software

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011
Time: 8:30am - 12noon
Location: Infinitec Southwest
7550 W. 183rd St.
Tinley Park, IL 60477
(Ample parking is available)

Cost: This seminar is free to educators.

Why Attend:
· Update your knowledge of the research and strategies to reduce truancy and discipline referrals, and build resilience as well as raise grades.
· Learn about expert-system technology as a tool for implementing effective targeted Tier 2-3 behavioral intervention plans
· Find out what local educators have been learning from their own Ripple Effects experience.
· Learn how educators use Ripple Effects to reduce injury, increase academic success, and strengthen pro-social behavior.
About the Featured Speaker:
Alice Ray is a visionary leader who has founded, led, and grown a number of organizations, including three that are still thriving after 15 years. An early advocate of "double bottom line" organizations, she has served as a business consultant and trainer to more than 100 other public, private and non-profit organizations, helping them make good works, good business as well.

Ray is also an expert in social learning. She designed Ripple Effects proprietary Whole Spectrum Learning System, and is the Content and Creative Director for the Company's student and implementer training software. This work has been recognized with 19 national awards from the health, software, education and communications industries. While head of Committee for Children (1982-89), she conceived and oversaw development of Second Step, a clinically validated violence prevention curriculum, now in more than 27,000 schools.

About Ripple Effects:
Ripple Effects provides multimedia software to prevent and solve behavior problems. Research shows that the Ripple Effects behavior intervention not only works for behavior, but also improves academic achievement in the process. Why? It addresses not only presenting behavior, but underlying reasons that propel it, and do so in whatever ways students - and teachers - learn best. This behavior intervention software for students targets a wide spectrum of individual risk factors, and provide cognitive-behavioral, affective, social-skill and social change training to help address them. Ripple Effects is often used for a variety of applications, including:
· Detention / In-school Suspension
· Implementation of PBIS across all three tiers
· Meeting IEP goals for behavior
· Behavior Intervention/Improvement Plans (BIPs)
· ED / BD programs
· Adjudicated youth
· Dropout prevention programs (identified as a model program by the National Dropout Prevention Network)
Agenda:
8:00-8:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 Welcome
8:45-10:15 A Multi-Disciplinary Theory for Multi Media Social/ Emotional/Behavioral Interventions
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:15 An Introduction to the Ripple Effects Whole Spectrum Intervention System
11:15-11:45 Implementation Best Practices and Discussion from Illinois Districts
11:30-12:00noon Q & A and Wrap-Up

TO REGISTER ONLINE:
Go to: <<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MG3C75L>>

For questions, please contact Bridget Anderson at banderson@edresearch.net or 630-388-5238

PLEASE RSVP by May 2, 2011!