The National Conference on Challenging Students
& How to Unlock Their Potential
The primary purpose of this conference is to bring together, simply the best-of-the-best practices for professional educators. Some of the programs and strategies presented will be research-tested and proven, while others will be promising, innovative, novel approaches created by educators for educators to help them to better connect and help different kinds of challenging students with behaviors or symptoms such as:
- Attention-Seeking
- Manipulation & Game-Playing
- Oppositional & Argumentative
- Underlying Hostility
- Mean & Insensitive (such as bullying)
- Rumoring & Gossiping
- Apathy &/or Uncaring
- Silence, Invisibility, or Non-Participation
- Social/Emotional Disorders
- Anger-Problem Issues
- Persistent Anxiety or Stress
- Excuse-Making
- Self-Centeredness
- Persistent Dishonesty
- Authority Testing
- Overdrive & Perfectionism
- Chronic Excuse-Making
- Extreme Self-Assurance
- Grandstanding
- Rambling (Unfocused)
- Alienation (from others)
- Chronic Whining
- Sabotaging
- And More!
REGISTRATION
Download a registration form. Online registration with a Visa, MasterCard or Discover will be available soon.
CALL FOR PROGRAMS
Submit a proposal to present a break-out session.
PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS
June 29, 2011 (9am-12pm)
Final Score: A Winning K-12 School Where Everyone Is An Effective Bystander
Presented by: Sandy Ragona, Author and National Speaker
June 29, 2011 (9am - 12pm)
Constructive Strategies for Managing, Reaching and Helping Disruptive Students (K-12)
Presented by: Mike Paget, State Consultant for Students With Severe Emotional and Behavioral Problems
June 29, 2011 (1pm-4pm)
Using the Redemption Approach: Five Timeless Principles That Affect Positive Change in Young People Who Bully
Presented by: Ed Orszulak, Ph.D.
June 29, 2011 (1pm - 4pm)
Effective School Discipline: Change the Culture, Change the Kid
Presented by: Larry Thompson, Creator Effective School Discipline