Behavior Academies: Targeted Interventions That Work! - Softcover

Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan; John Hannigan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1960574086 ISBN 13: 9781960574084

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2024

Synopsis

With student behavioral problems and teacher turnover at all-time highs, educators need behavioral interventions that work. With its practical behavior intervention method, this book replaces problematic behaviors with essential life skills for school and beyond. Educators can implement effective targeted interventions in twenty-five minutes or less using eight predefined behavior academies and a process to create their own.

This book will help K–12 educators:

• Address their own beliefs about students’ challenging behavior
• Learn the eight behavior academies and their corresponding life skills
• Identify the core components of an academy’s initial, ongoing, and exit sessions
• Build their own behavior academy with a clearly outlined process
• Use behavior rehearsal cards for an academy’s ongoing sessions

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Behavior Mindset
Chapter 2: Behavior Academy
Chapter 3: Behavior Academy Structure
Chapter 4: Behavior Academy Rehearsal Cards
Chapter 5: Build Your Own Behavior Academy
Chapter 6: Frequently Asked Questions and Additional Tools

About this title

About the Author

John Hannigan, EdD, has served in education for over twenty years as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and county office leadership coach. John is a sought-after presenter who works with schools and districts throughout North America on designing and implementing systematic multitiered systems of supports for academics and behavior.
During his nine years as principal at Reagan Elementary in the Sanger Unified School District in California, Dr. Hannigan was the leader of a highly effective professional learning community. He and his staff were recognized as a National Model PLC, California State Distinguished School, Gold Ribbon School, and California Honor Roll School. They also received the Title I Academic Achievement Award and earned Platinum status for positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), in addition to being selected as a knowledge-development site for the statewide scaling up of multitiered systems of supports (MTSS).
Dr. Hannigan has written numerous articles and coauthored nine books. He is the cofounder of Hannigan Ed-Equity Group LLC. Dr. Hannigan holds a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno. To learn more about Dr. Hannigan’s work, follow @JohnHannigan75 on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan, EdD, works with U.S. schools and districts to design and implement effective social-emotional and behavioral systems. Her expertise includes RTI, PLCs, MTSS, PBIS, restorative practices, social-emotional learning, and more.
In addition to her role as an assistant professor in the educational leadership department at California State University, Fresno, Dr. Hannigan serves on the California Department of Education design team for the implementation of MTSS to help advocate and change the trending discipline inequity throughout the state’s schools and create positive school climates for all students.
The combination of her special education and student support services background, school- and district-level administration, and graduate-level teaching and research experiences has allowed Dr. Hannigan to develop inclusive research-based best practices for systemically implementing equitable behavior initiatives.
Dr. Hannigan has been recognized as the California Outstanding School Psychologist of the Year, as well as other awards from Outstanding Faculty Publications at California State University, Fresno. She was recognized by the California Legislature Assembly for her work in social justice and equity, and she received the inaugural Association of California School Administrators Exemplary Women in Education Award in 2017 for her work on equity in schools.
Dr. Hannigan earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s degree in school psychology, an administrative credential, and a doctorate in leadership. To learn more about Dr. Hannigan’s work, visit pbischampionmodelsystem.com, or follow @Jess_hannigan on X, formerly known as Twitter. To book John Hannigan or Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1960574086
• ISBN 13: 9781960574084
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208