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Better Behavior Together (2022, 2023, 2025)
Trainings focused on practical applications for challenging behavior in the classroom.
Fall 2025
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About Better Behavior Together
About: Join Telehealth ROCKS for this 3-part series to better understand challenging behaviors in schools and create supports to help preschool and elementary-aged kids be their best. We'll use the Project ECHO model designed to create virtual communities of learners. We'll draw expertise from behavioral health experts and your experience to support the learning and wellbeing of children in your community. This session is online via Zoom and there is no charge to attend. Certificates of attendance will be provided
View more info here: https://www.telehealthrocks.org/better-behavior-together31e263bf
This training was made possible by grant number U3I43512 from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, HRSA, DHHS.
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Flyer
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Session 1 - October 8, 2025
Session Materials:
Key Takeaways:
- There’s been an increase in childhood behavioral problems and mental health diagnoses, which started before the pandemic, but was exacerbated by the pandemic.
- Go back to the basics for behavior interventions with kids: relationship building, underlying skill development.
- Adults need to respond in a consistent way that’s addressing the underlying function of the behavior.
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Session 2 - November 12, 2025
Coming soon!
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Session 3 - December 10, 2025
Coming soon!
Fall 2023
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Flyer- Better Behavior Together
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Intro session - September 21, 2023
Session Materials:
Short videos:
- Behavior Basics (6 minutes): https://youtu.be/0Vx0PSU19Lg
- Functions of Behavior (6 minutes): https://youtu.be/KIl0Kuonif8
Key Takeaways:
- Focusing on what we, as the adults, can control & influence in our environments works better and feels better (for everyone).
- Understanding behavior expands our toolbox of potential strategies – but explain does not mean excuse.
- Learning is inherently interpersonal – humans learn better together. Join us as we learn about better behavior together (& share a case helps us and you!)
Resources:
- Circle of concern vs. Circle of Control: https://discoveryinaction.com.au/circle-of-concern-v-circle-of-control/
- Therapy guide: https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-guide/cbt-psychoeducation
- Telehealth ROCKS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5KIxK6zUevCXAd_fbq8VlA
- Functions of Behavior: https://www.autismadventures.com/abcs-and-functions-of-behavior/
- What is co-regulation: https://turnaroundusa.org/what-is-co-regulation-and-what-does-it-look-like-in-the-classroom/
- Project ECHO: https://hsc.unm.edu/echo/
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Session 1 - October 12, 2023
Session Materials:
Key Takeaways:
- Build brain literacy – how our brains work – as a foundation for understanding & managing behavior
- Our aim is to learn to tolerate & manage distress, not escape & avoid it
- Functional thinking is universally helpful (and trauma-responsive)
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Session 2 - October 26, 2023
Session Materials:
Short Video:
Key Takeaways:
- Functional thinking can feel robotic – don’t forget to human with the humans.
- Getting input from multiple perspectives is the right thing to do and can also be really helpful.
- Play the long game – universals for all students.
Resources:
- Hand Model of the Brain
- How educators and teens disagree on what’s harming student’s mental health
- What’s the function of behavior?
- Toolbox for reducing rapidly grown behavior issues in schools
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Session 3 - November 9, 2023
Session Materials:
Key Takeaways:
- Mental health literacy & social-emotional competency is THE foundation for all behavior management.
- Thinking *functionally* through a trauma-responsive lens helps us bring the head AND heart to this work (you need both).
- This is hard work. You’re doing great. Keep going. Ask for help. THANK YOU!!!
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Fall 2022
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Session 1 - October 26, 2022: Functions of behavior
Key Takeaways:
- Reinforce behaviors that you want to see more.
- Teach replacement behaviors if you want to decrease challenging behaviors.
- Trauma can lead to BIG behaviors- but don’t reinvent the wheel! Go back to the behavior basics.
Additional Resources:
- Article: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on parent, child and family functioning article. View PDF
- Article: Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth – a systematic review. View PDF
- Article: Use of Acute Mental Health Care in US Children’s hospitals before and after statewide COVID-19 school closure orders. View PDF
- Behavior in schools press release: https://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/press_releases/07_06_2022.asp#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(July%206%2C%202022),for%20Education%20Statistics%20(NCES)
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Session 2 - November 2, 2022: Depression and Anxiety
Key takeaways:
- Anxiety and depression are often related.
- Anxiety is common.
- Use basic strategies to support all students.
Short videos:
- Anxiety strategies (8 minutes): https://youtu.be/QdE-UnxTRAM
- Power of positive thinking (3 minutes): https://youtu.be/ICyiLBXjXi4
Resources:
- Anxiety quick guide: https://childmind.org/guide/anxiety-in-children-quick-guide/
- NASP: Anxiety: Helping Handout for School and Home
- NASP: Depression: Helping Handout For Home
- Depression: Helping Handout for School
- Depression quick guide: https://childmind.org/guide/depression-in-kids-quick-guide/
- State of Mental Health in America report: https://www.mhanational.org/issues/state-mental-health-america
Parenting Books:
- Helping Your Depressed Child- Martha Barnard
- Helping Your Anxious Child- Ronald Rapee
- What to Do When You Worry Too Much- Dawn Huebner
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Session 3 - November 9, 2022: ADHD
Key Takeaways:
- Make sure a child has an appropriate way to get their reinforcers.
- Therapy, medication, and school-based supports are important for youth with ADHD.
- Don’t forget the Universal, Universal, Universal
Short video:
- ADHD & Behavior Strategies (10-minute video): https://youtu.be/F83pCLwGG4U
Resources:
- ADHD and Behavior Therapy Overview from the CDC. View PDF
- Classroom Accommodations for ADHD tip sheet. View PDF
- Website: CHADD.ORG has a variety of resources, including example Daily Behavior Trackers in the ADHD Toolkit, short videos about ADHD tips for teachers, and a teacher card with behaviors to look for.
- What Is a Behavior Intervention Plan? https://childmind.org/article/what-is-a-behavior-intervention-plan/
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Session 4 - November 16, 2022: Autism and social engagement
Key takeaways:
- Autism has clear, specific diagnostic criteria; has associated features and shares many features associated with other disorders
- Look for common universal strategies that can benefit all youth
- Social engagement is sophisticated – look to building blocks of Social Emotional Learning Competencies
Resources:
- Motivational Assessment Scale: https://coe.uoregon.edu/cds/files/2018/01/Motivational-Assessment-Scale-II.pdf
- Functional Analysis Screening Tool: https://depts.washington.edu/dbpeds/Screening%20Tools/FAST.pdf
- Intensity scale sample . View PDF
- Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth and Young Adults with Autism PDF. View PDF