Social/Emotional/Behavioral Trainings

The trainings on this page are divided into six topic sections: Serious Emotional Disability, Behavior, Mental Health, Social Emotional Learning & Affective Needs, Early Childhood, and Working with Families. Within each topic section there are three types of trainings: On-Demand Webinars, Online Courses, and By Request Trainings. On-Demand Webinars are recorded trainings that are available at any time. Online Courses are more formal trainings that are ran through the Colorado Department of Education Learning Management System, Moodle. Lastly, Bill Brown offers Trainings By Request Trainings in which he will fine-tune to the needs of the districts, administrative units or BOCES.

Topic Sections:

Serious Emotional Disability (SED)

Behavior

Mental Health

Social Emotional Learning
& Affective Needs

Early Childhood

Working with Families

Serious Emotional Disability

SED On-Demand Webinars

All of the Serious Emotional Disability On-Demand Webinars listed below use the same registration form. Register for any or all On-Demand Webinars!

Discerning Social Maladjustment in Evaluations for Serious Emotional Disability (SED)

The Colorado Department of Education Exceptional Student Services Unit has provided a recording of a live webinar on discerning social maladjustments from Serious Emotional Disability (SED) when evaluating eligibility for SED, recorded in December 2016.

This webinar recording provides information on commonly understood definitions of social maladjustment, common characteristics of social maladjustment, an approach to determining whether a student qualifies for an SED when social maladjustment is present, and intervention resources. 1.0 CDE contact hours, requires completion of a knowledge check. This training satisfies the Special Education and Behavioral Health licensure renewal requirements.

SED Eligibility

The purpose of this webinar is to assist multi-disciplinary teams, including families, in the application of best practices while using the new disability criteria for identifying students with a Serious Emotional Disability (SED). 0.5 CDE contact hours, completion of knowledge check required. This training satisfies the Special Education and Behavioral Health licensure renewal requirements.

SED Quality Indicator Tool

The QIs are a tool designed to assist those who educate and provide services to students with an SED or those evaluating these programs. This document was designed with multiple purposes in mind. A team may use it as a self-assessment or teams can use this tool to help build or create a new program or system for students with an SED. Building teams or administrators may use it to determine programming, resources, and professional development needs. Educational leaders (superintendents, special education directors, behavior team members, etc.) to determine if systems are in place to support high-quality educational programming. 0.5 CDE credit hours, completion of knowledge check required. This training satisfies the Special Education and Behavioral Health licensure renewal requirements.

Districts/Schools that would like assistance with the implementation of the SED Quality Indicator tool should email Bill Brown.

SED Quality Indicators

Serious Emotional Disability Quality Indicators offer guidance to educators and administrators when developing, implementing, and evaluating quality programming and services for students with SED. The QIs cannot be interpreted as policy or regulation but as a tool designed to assist those who educate and provide services to students with a SED or those evaluating these programs. The QI will provide baseline data that can be used to action plan and, in turn, monitor the improvement of programming. 0.5 CDE contact hours.

Additional On-Demand Behavior Trainings Under development

Listed below are the additional behavior trainings that will be released during the 2024-2025 school year.

Working with Paraeducators
SED Specially Designed Instruction

SED Online Classes

Manifestation Determination Review

In this course participants will:

learn how to conduct the Manifestation Determination Review process.
learn what questions needs to be asked in the Manifestation Determination process and the possible outcomes of the Manifestation Determination Review.
learn about how Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans fit into the Manifestation Determination Review Process.

Participants who complete this course will receive a CDE certificate for 2 hours.

Protection of Individuals from Restraint and Seclusion Act (PPRA)

The Colorado Department of Education has available a self-guided, self-paced Moodle course on Protection of Individuals from Restraint and Seclusion Act (PPRA) Regulations. This course covers the Restraint and Seclusion regulations (PPRA) and will also share the changes to PPRA from House Bill 22-1376.

Registration for PPRA

SED By Request Trainings

The SED By Request trainings in this section can be provided by request to a school, district, or BOCES. Simply send an email to Bill Brown, to schedule a training fine-tuned to your organization's needs. CDE contact hours are available.

How to set up and Affective Needs Program

In this six-hour training where participants will learn:

About the SED Quality Indicator Tool for Serious Emotional Disability (SED) programming and how this tool can be helpful with action planning for program development.
AN program components.
Alternative discipline.
Establishing a continuum of interventions and supports.
Environment strategies.

IEP Qualification Criteria for Serious Emotional Disability

In this one to three-hour training where participants will:

Understand and know the body of evidence required when considering eligibility for SED.
Have an understanding of how to distinguish between an emotional disability and social maladjustment and factors to consider with co-morbidity.

Serious Emotional Disability Quality Indicator Tool

In this one to three-hour training where participants will:

Be introduced to the CDE Quality Indicator Tool for Serious Emotional Disability (SED) programming.
Identify the need for improved programming for students with SED.
Learn how to use the tool to action plan and/or evaluate programming.

The Manifestation Determination Process

In this one-hour training where participants will:

Gain an understanding of the manifestation determination process that is needed when a decision is made to affect a disciplinary change in placement for a student with a disability who violated a code of student conduct.

Recovery

In this eight-hour training. “Grief is the healing process of a significant loss, not a pathological reaction. After you have been dealt a blow, you need time to recover.” Participants will learn about:

The grief and growth cycle.
Stress, including anticipatory grief.
Recovery and crisis recovery.
Trauma and CBT (Cognitive Behavior Theory).

Additional By Request SED Trainings Under development

The live trainings in this section can be provided by request to a school, district, or BOCES. Simply send an email to Bill Brown, to schedule a training fine-tuned to your organization's needs. CDE contact hours are available.

Listed below are the additional by request trainings that will be released during the 2024-2025 school year.

Protection of Individuals from Restraint and Seclusion Act (PPRA)
Serious Emotional Disability vs Social Maladjustment with Interventions

Behavior

Behavior On-Demand Webinars

All of the Behavior On-Demand Webinars listed below use the same registration form. Register for any or all On-Demand Webinars!

Behavior 101

This webinar will cover the basics of behavior including behavioral theory, the environment, and setting expectations. One (1) CDE contact will be awarded upon successful completion of a brief evaluation and knowledge check. This training satisfies the Special Education and Behavioral Health licensure renewal requirements.

Behavior & Mental Health (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

This webinar will cover behavioral basics and the basics of cognitive behavioral theory. Once the basics are covered this webinar will explore how these two different approaches to providing students services work collaboratively together. We will demonstrate how mental health struggles can be approached using behavioral concepts.

Direct Behavior Rating

This video will provide an overview of Direct Behavior Rating (DBR), specifically with a focus on the use of this process for behavioral data collection in remote learning for students with existing IEP behavioral goals. The process of DBR will be discussed in a step-by-step format and the applications for remote learning will be addressed. The video will also address goal setting and progress monitoring to evaluate the effectiveness of the plans already in place. Viewers will be able to identify options for DBR as a behavioral data tracking tool. 0.5 CDE contact hours, completion of knowledge check required. This training satisfies the Special Education and Behavioral Health licensure renewal requirements.

Positive Discipline or Positive Behavioral Supports

This webinar will present an overview of using positive discipline in the school setting. This learning opportunity will focus on how to reclaim "discipline" as preventative, positive, and instructional. This will include methods for teams to address positive discipline within a systems framework. 1.5 CDE contact hours, requires completion of a knowledge check. This training satisfies the Special Education and Behavioral Health licensure renewal requirements.

Positive Behavior Reinforcement

This webinar is going to focus on the use of positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is a behavioral concept that, when used in the right way, can help to improve behavior and help you stick to healthy habits. Positive reinforcement refers to the introduction of desirable or pleasant stimuli after the performance of a behavior. The concept of positive reinforcement is associated with the work of behaviorist psychologist B. F. Skinner on his theory known as operant conditioning.

Additional On-Demand Behavior Trainings Under development

Listed below are the additional behavior trainings that will be released during the 2024-2025 school year.

Attention Seeking Behaviors
Behavior Intervention Plan Basics
Elopement
Escape and Avoidance
Home Behavioral Interventions
Learned Helplessness
Level Systems

Lying Behavior
Mental Health Behavior Intervention Plan
Perfectionism
Trauma and Behavior
Traumatic Brain Injury and Behavior
Restorative Practices
Stealing Behavior

Behavior Online Classes

Introduction to Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans

This 8-week online course, offered in both fall and spring semesters, is intended for school and district-level teams. The purpose of the course is to support the team in developing a functional behavioral Assessment (FBA) that accurately identifies a student’s function of behavior in order to develop more effective Behavior Intervention Plans. Team-based approaches to completing such activities are always best practice and in the best interest of the student, school, and family. By the end of the course, participating teams will be able to successfully complete Basic Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP). The course provides a foundation for understanding FBAs and provides an opportunity for practice in the completion of FBAs and BIPs. Support from instructors will be given in the form of a discussion board with no face-to-face opportunities provided. Up to 30 CDE contact hours are available. These clock hours can be used towards the special education and behavioral health licensure renewal requirements.

Requirements:

Each team member must complete an individual registration form and list 2 to 5 school- or district-level team members, including a special education teacher and a mental health staff. ALL team members must register individually.
Have access to students in a school setting, and approval from administrators to complete an FBA/BIP case study on students.
Commit to completing weekly reading, assignments, online discussions, as well as a case study in a school setting.

Date(s): To be announced

Registration: Registration for the 2024-2025 school year is not open at this time.

Advanced Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans

This online course will present an in-depth look into Advanced Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) building skills to work with complex and serious student needs. This course focuses on training a “team lead” and contains information on how to complete each portion of the process. This course utilizes the current Colorado Department of Education Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plan format to guide the process. If your school district or administrative unit does not utilize this format, then the information given should help you in your understanding of leading the FBA and BIP process. The course provides an opportunity for participants to practice completion of FBAs and BIPs.

The goal of the FBA is to determine the function of the problem behavior to develop more effective interventions and Behavior Intervention Plans. Individuals taking this course are expected to work with a school-based team even though the team is not enrolled in this course. Team-based approaches to completing such activities are always best practice and in the best interest of the student, school, and family. This course is intended to give each participant practical information, applied knowledge, and real experiences at all stages of the FBA and BIP development, including data collection, and behavior support planning so that each participant can learn the necessary skills to function both independently and as an effective member of a team. Therefore, the minimal requirement for this course is that each participant be assigned to a school site, so they have access to staff and students to practice these learned skills

Date(s): To be announced

Registration: Registration for the 2024-2025 school year is not open at this time.

Behavior By Request Trainings

The Behavior By Request Trainings in this section can be provided by request to a school, district, or BOCES. Simply send an email to Bill Brown, to schedule a training fine-tuned to your organization's needs. CDE contact hours are available.

Alternatives to Suspensions

In this three to four-hour training where participants will:

Learn about what research says about suspensions and expulsion.
Explore creative alternatives.
Identify important prerequisites.
Learn about trauma and student discipline.

Behavioral Toolbox

In this three-hour training where participants will learn a variety of different behavior intervention strategies such as errorless learning, mix and vary, when/then, precision request sequence and strategies for perfectionism, learned helplessness, development, and select mutism, among others.

Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans

In this six-hour training where participants will be able to:

Conduct a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) to identify students' strengths and needs.
Develop a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) that integrates social-emotional learning and is based on the strengths and needs identified in the FBA.

Additional By Request Behavior Trainings Under development

Listed below are the additional by request trainings that will be released during the 2024-2025 school year.

Introduction to Restorative Practices
Behavior De-escalation (Crisis Intervention)
Behavior Compliance
Crisis and Stress Behavior
FBA and BIP for Administrators
Data Collection, Progress Monitoring, and Goal Writing
Self-Sabotaging Behaviors

Mental Health

Mental Health On-Demand Webinars

All of the Mental Health On-Demand Webinars listed below use the same registration form. Register for any or all On-Demand Webinars!

Behavior & Mental Health (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

Grief & Anxiety

During this time of COVD19, the potential for anticipatory grief is high. This Webinar will explore anticipatory grief in the context of the Grief and Growth Cycle. The Grief Cycle's relationship to resiliency and coping strategies will be explored, providing action steps that can be taken to support the journey through the grief cycle. 0.5 CDE contact hours.

Mental Health 101

This webinar will cover internalizing and externalizing behaviors that might be associated with mental health struggles. The DSM5 will be explored looking at the different mental health disorders. The difference between HIPAA and FERPA will be shared related to confidentiality. The webinar will wrap up with taking a look at school-based mental health services. 1.0 CDE Contact Hours.

Additional Mental Health On-Demand Webinars

The following on-demand webinars will be available during the 2024-2025 school year.

Brief Solution Focused Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral theory
Dialectical Behavioral theory
Educational Counseling vs Clinical Counseling
Mindfulness
Motivational Interviewing
Narrative therapy
Selective Mutism
Trauma-Informed practices

Mental Health Online Classes

We are not currently offering online classes regarding mental health.

Mental Health By Request Trainings

The Mental Health By Request Trainings in this section can be provided by request to a school, district, or BOCES. Simply send an email to Bill Brown, to schedule a training fine-tuned to your organization's needs. CDE contact hours are available.

Emotional Disabilities, Supporting Students with Mental Health Needs

In this four to six-hour training where participants will:

Learn about the role of the mental health provider within school systems.
Internalizing behaviors and externalizing behaviors.
Attachment, personality, and temperament.
Developmental stages.
Social-emotional assessments.
SED IEP criteria.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Mental Health Literacy

In this one to three-hour training where participants will learn SEL does not encompass major mental health conditions, although SEL programs can definitely provide strong support for students with diagnosed psychiatric conditions. Students with mental health needs (and all students, for that matter) can greatly benefit from SEL programming, but it may not necessarily be a sufficient condition to meet the specific individual needs of students struggling with mental health conditions.

DBT: Emotional Regulation and Distress Tolerance

In this six-hour training where participants will learn about Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and its four components:

Mindfulness
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation

Emotional Coaching

In this one to three-hour training where participants will learn about:

Allowing emotional expression.
Recognizing emotions.
Creating security through reducing anxiety.
Coping strategies vs coping mechanisms.
Conflict resolution.

Grief, Anxiety, and Trauma

In this one to three-hour training where participants will learn about:

Grief and growth cycle.
Coping mechanisms vs coping strategies.
Anticipatory grief.
Preconditions for trauma.

Trauma-Informed Practices

In this six-hour training where participants will learn:

Background knowledge on the different types of trauma.
Review the core features of trauma-responsive practices.
Knowledge of what can be done at school to help a traumatized child.
Strategies for emotional and behavioral crises.

Additional By Request Mental Health Trainings Under development

Listed below are the additional by request trainings that will be released during the 2024-2025 school year.

Brief Solution Focused therapy
Conducting Groups
Play Therapy
Reactive Attachment Disorder

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) or Affective Needs (AN)

SEL/AN On-Demand Webinars

All of the Social Emotional Learning and Affective Needs On-Demand Webinars listed below use the same registration form. Register for any or all On-Demand Webinars!

Closing The SEL Gap

During this on-demand webinar, participants will gain an understanding of how to assess for missing social skills. Participants will learn how to break down large social skills into smaller skill sets that can be directly taught and measured. This process will result in the development of individualized social skill planning that can be used to generate IEP goal interventions and MTSS/RtI/PBIS plan goal interventions. Information will also be shared on how and where social skills training fits into the FBA and BIP process. 1.0 CDE contact hours, completion of knowledge check required. This training satisfies the Special Education and Behavioral Health licensure renewal requirements.

Social Emotional Learning

Social skills training and support for students with social/emotional/behavioral challenges. 0.5 CDE contact hours.

Self-Regulations - Coming Soon!

SEL/AN Online Classes

Social Emotional Learning - Online Course

This 8 week online course is offered in both fall and spring semesters, The purpose of the course is to support participants in the development of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) plans and instruction based on identified building-level and student-specific needs. Individual course participants will explore the evidence-based practices and competencies involved in effective SEL planning and intervention. Assessment for lagging skills and data collection opportunities will be provided. Participants will be able to identify specific skill deficits and needs to plan for effective SEL instruction and support. Instruction will be given via the online course shell and discussion boards for collaboration with colleagues will be provided. No face-to-face opportunities or scheduled meetings are included in this course.

SEL/AN By Request Trainings

The Social Emotional Learning and Affective Needs By Request Trainings in this section can be provided by request to a school, district, or BOCES. Simply send an email to Bill Brown, to schedule a training fine-tuned to your organization's needs. CDE contact hours are available.

Closing the SEL Gap Through Individualized Social Skills Lessons

In this three hour training participants will:

Gain an understanding of how to assess for missing social skills.
Gain an understanding of how to develop an individual social skills lesson once missing skills have been identified.
Gain an understanding of how social skills instruction fits into the FBA and BIP process.

Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation

In this customized one to three hour training participants will learn:

Recognition of overstressed child.
Identification of stressors.
Reduction of stressors.
Increase child's self-awareness.
Teach self-regulation strategies.

Social Awareness

Customizable one to three hour training will discuss the ability to understand social and ethical norms for behavior and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports. Participants will:

Build a deeper understanding of social awareness.
Identify at least one specific strategy or intervention they could try in the classroom to support social awareness.
Identify the role a teacher can play in helping students develop social awareness.

Social Emotional Learning

This is a six-hour training. Social-emotional skills are critical for students’ learning, their readiness for college and careers, and their future success. Both research and evidence-based practice clearly show the strong connection between social and emotional development, academic learning, and success in life (Domitrovich, Dusenbury & Hyson, 2013). Participants will:

Gain an understanding of Social Emotional Learning (SEL).
Synthesize and analyze learning to implement SEL interventions through the SED Quality Indicators in the classroom/school environment.

Social Emotional Learning within MTSS

A three-hour training where participants will learn how and where SEL fits into MTSS/PBIS.

Tier 1: integrated curriculum and school culture/climate.
Tier 2: intensive classroom and small group instruction.
Tier 3: individualized social skill instruction.

Social Skills Training

In this one to three hour training, participants will learn about:

Emotional skills: showing empathy, cultural awareness, and appreciation.
Social/interpersonal: modeling coping skills and appropriate responses to anger, anxiety, or sensitivity.
Cognitive regulation: changing a lesson when it is not working, avoiding anger and sarcasm when it is aimed at the teacher, adjusting work based on the needs of the class.

Early Childhood

Early Childhood On-Demand Webinars

All of the Early Childhood On-Demand Webinars listed below use the same registration form. Register for any or all On-Demand Webinars!

Prevent Teach and Reinforce (PRT) - Coming Soon

Early Childhood Online Classes

No Early Childhood online classes at this time.

Early Childhood By Request Trainings

The Early Childhood by Request Trainings in this section can be provided by request to a school, district, or BOCES. Simply send an email to Bill Brown, to schedule a training fine-tuned to your organization's needs. CDE contact hours are available.

Preschool Social Emotional Learning

In this six-hour training where participants will learn:

Social-emotional standards.
Stages of play.
Attachment, personality, and temperament.
Needs vs wants.
Co-regulations.

Prevent Teach and Reinforce

Information coming soon.

Stages of Play

Information coming soon.

Working with Families

Working with Families On-Demand Webinars

All of the Working with Families On-Demand Webinars listed below use the same registration form. Register for any or all On-Demand Webinars!

Mental Health the Impact of Trauma - Coming Soon!

FBA and BIP for Parents - Coming Soon!

Working with Families Online Classes

No social emotional behavioral family online courses available at this time.

Working with Families By Request Trainings

The Working with Families By Request Trainings in this section can be provided by request to a school, district, or BOCES. Simply send an email to Bill Brown, to schedule a training fine-tuned to your organization's needs. CDE contact hours are available.

Family Engagement

In this three-hour training participants will learn about the SED Quality Indicators Family and Community Domain. The Family and community domain focuses on actively engaging families of students who struggle with Serious Emotional Disability engage in regular, two-way, meaningful communication about student learning. The SED Quality Indicators also focus on connecting families to community resources. Participants will:

learn about communication with families,
how to have difficult Conversations,
helping families with home SEL skills and
home behavioral skills.

More Coming Soon!

Listed below are the additional by request trainings that will be released during the 2024-2025 school year.

Working with Struggling Families
Helping Families to Thrive (PBIS in the home)
Mental Health the Impact of Trauma
Trauma-Responsive Positive Behavior Supports for Parents

For more information, please contact:

Bill Brown
Phone: (720) 603-3000
Email Bill Brown

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