A Different Type of Professional Development

  • Behavior coaching with Spero focuses on teachers’ management skills needed to address specific behavioral concerns in their classrooms. Most professional development is focused on skills that may or may not be relevant to teachers’ current needs. Spero’s coaching is focused on building skills to address immediate needs while also improving prevention and intervention skills to address future behavior issues.

  • Behavior coaching with Spero can be in person, virtually (e.g., Zoom, Google Meet), or by phone.

    During PLCs, grade-level meetings, planning periods, before/after school, and/or faculty meetings are examples of how teachers have received behavioral coaching.

  • All coaching focuses on helping teachers identify behaviors of concerns in which they do not have the skillset to address effectively. This is followed by identifying potential strategies that could be used for the behavior within the context and training the teachers how and when to employ the strategy. All strategies are research-based and have been shown to change challenging behaviors.

  • Challenging student behavior has been a top reason for teachers to leave the field for the past 50 years.

    Many teachers enter the field without the skills needed to address challenging behaviors. Behavior coaching can provide the instruction on new skills, as well as the needed performance feedback to hone and maintain the skill.

  • Behavior coaching is for general and special education teachers. It can be for administrators and support personnel.

    Dr. Allan Allday has 20 years of experience teaching adults, as a teacher educator and behavior analyst educator, how to understand and implement behavior strategies.

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School Administrators

Schools and teachers face many challenges today, with student behavior being one of the biggest. In the past four years, I have heard dozens of teachers exclaim that “student behavior is more challenging than it used to be.” These teachers have reported an increase in a variety of undesirable school behaviors, as well as a decrease in overall academic engagement. This combination creates frustration for both teacher and student. Challenging student behavior is one of the leading factors for teachers to reach the end of their rope (i.e., teacher burnout). Teachers are in desperate need of support when working with students with challenging behaviors.

All classes and sessions are designed to provide participants with strategies they can implement the next day. These strategies can help with reducing undesirable behaviors, increasing desired behaviors, and giving you the hope you need to keep going.

Please review a sample of potential offerings below. Please contact me to set up a date and time to offer a class or session. If there are other needs for behaviorally-focused professional development in your organization, please reach out and we can discuss other topics and options. Pricing for all sessions will be discussed when arrangements are made.

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School Services

Behavior-focused professional development that can be delivered virtually or face-to-face (based on location).

Topics can range from general classroom management to assessment and intervention with severe behavior problems. Below are some potential topics:

  • Functional Thinking About Behavior

  • Labels, Trauma, Behavior….Oh My!

  • Functional Behavioral Assessments and Intervention Planning

  • Assessing and Intervening with Severe Behavior

  • ReflACTION: Putting Action to Reflection

  • Got Questions: Open Forum Q&A to Address Teacher Concerns

  • School-selected focus for PD

Grade level or individual behavioral coaching focused on specific challenging behaviors happening in the classroom. Can be delivered virtually or face-to-face (based on location).

Behavioral coaching sessions can be scheduled according to the needs of your school. They can be delivered during PLCs, planning times, before or after school. Sessions can include an entire grade level, team, or an individual teacher.

Session goals focus on solutions for addressing the behaviors of concern.

Benefits include:

  • Purchase as many hours as you think you would need.

  • Convenient timing for teachers and staff

  • Support for teachers without having to wait for a PD day

  • Broad focus on any behaviors of concern within the classroom

  • Can be counted as PD time for teachers

Parents are a key support for a successful school year. Parental support can help you to achieve your school’s mission. Helping parents helps the school.

Behavior-focused services can be provided through Title funds or school funds to support behavioral training and coaching for parents. These types of services could be virtual or face-to-face (based on location).

Content related to the parent support would be focused on:

  • Behavior improvement at home

  • Collaboration between home and school

  • Understanding the foundation for behaviors of concern

  • Open forum Q&A for parents to ask about the behaviors of concern

  • Other topics identified by school.