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Praise from participants Barbara Kaiser is giving presentations about challenging behavior all over the world. You can invite her to your conference, school, or center. Keynote DescriptionsWhere Is the Fairy Dust? Opening the Culture Door That’s Not Fair! Beyond Survival: Building Your Resilience Keynote and workshop descriptions (1½–3 hours)I Didn’t Mean to Ruin Your DayWhen you recognize that a child’s challenging behavior is rooted in biological and environmental factors and not a desire to ruin your day, it becomes possible for you to figure out what the child needs to learn in order to succeed. This workshop will help you understand why a child behaves in a particular way and make it much easier to meet those needs and effectively manage inappropriate behavior using evidence-based prevention strategies. Prevention Is the Best Intervention “Nothing I Do Works!” Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively to Challenging Behavior Opening the Culture Door Time-Out for Time-Out! Beyond Survival: Building Your Resilience Bullying Behavior: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do about It Parents as Partners Challenging Behavior: The Director’s Role Differentiated Instruction WEVAS: Working Effectively with Violent and Aggressive States (3-hour workshop) Building Positive Connections When problem behavior enters the picture, this crucial relationship may falter. The behavior gets in the way, blocking your view of the child and making it a challenge to establish a positive connection. How you relate to the child depends on what you see when you look at the child—and what you see depends on who you are. Whether you’re aware of it or not, everything about your teaching—how you approach and respond to the children, set up your room, choose and present activities, even your knowledge of child development and theory—filters through the prism of your own emotions, family background, education, temperament, beliefs, values, and culture. The Importance of Social Emotional Learning There is no doubt children learn social and emotional skills simply by being in a group, but they learn much more when you teach these skills intentionally and proactively. The preschool years are the optimal time to begin. Experts in the field have found that in addition to helping children make friends and get along with others, social and emotional skills enable them to improve achievement by an average of 11 percentile points. In the long run, greater social and emotional competence can increase the likelihood of high school graduation, readiness for postsecondary education, career success, positive family and work relationships, better mental health, reduced criminal behavior, and engaged citizenship. Just imagine the jump start we can give today’s children if we begin focusing on their social emotional competence when they are young. The bottom line is that we can no longer deny or ignore the importance of intentionally teaching all children social emotional skills. It is the foundation for creating a safe and caring environment and later becomes the foundation for children to make better decisions, form friendships and most of all feel good about themselves. Great teachers do more than promote the academic learning of their students, they teach the WHOLE CHILD. Full-day workshop descriptionsNothing I Do Works! How Can I Understand, Prevent, and Respond Effectively to Children’s Challenging Behavior? When you understand yourself, know which behaviors push your buttons, and recognize that a child’s challenging behavior is rooted in biological and environmental factors and not a desire to ruin your day, you are in a much better position to respond effectively. By bridging the gap between research and practice and bringing together information drawn from neuroscience, psychology, and special education, this workshop will help you understand why a child behaves in a particular way, how to figure out what he or she needs, and how to use evidence-based, proven-effective strategies to meet those needs and manage inappropriate behavior effectively. Where Is the Fairy Dust? Supporting Teachers When There Is a Child with Challenging Behavior in Their Group Teachers often feel unable to help a child with challenging behavior develop the skills necessary to succeed, and as a result they may not be able to provide a safe setting for the other children in their classroom. By bridging the gap between research and practice and bringing together information and skills drawn from neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, special education and social and emotional skills programs, this interactive workshop will use discussion to look at the director’s, administrator’s, or principal’s role in supporting staff and working with families when there are children with challenging behavior in a school or center. Opening the Culture Door Positive Behavior Support/Functional Assessment Bullying in Early Childhood: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do about It WEVAS: Working Effectively with Violent and Aggressive States (1- or 2-day workshop) Participants rave about Barbara�s presentations!“After your workshop I came back to a dozen or more left messages—parents, providers, early ed. college staff, all sharing their thanks for being able to attend the best conference ever! You truly were an inspiration to all who were in attendance. I must honestly say, I’ve been here 24 years, and this is the best response on any event we’ve sponsored. The dialogue among our educators and providers is being shared throughout the community. Barbara, you made quite an impact.” —Wendy Hood, Child Care Resource & Referral, Plumas Rural Services, Quincy, CA “We were thinking about you yesterday as we prepare to share our workshop notes with our colleagues. I have to tell you how much I loved your workshop and the ideas I took from it. I am using it at home a lot with my own children. We are certainly trying hard to implement it in our classes, too, and I already see some positive changes in the general class behavior. I do not have an ‘Andrew’ this year so I won’t need everything, but it certainly helped me set a different tone in my class. Thanks again for all the tips.” —Julie, Singapore American School, Singapore �This workshop opened my eyes to things I can do differently. Barbara is great! I loved her enthusiasm. There were lots of opportunities for discussion and exchange of ideas." —Preschool Teacher, Richardson, TX �Learning about Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Support using an actual case study was very practical and useful." —Childcare Educator, Baltimore, MD �Finally, a workshop where I learned some strategies that are useful and realistic. I plan to use them with two of the children in my classroom." —Pre-K Teacher, Baton Rouge, LA �I have found the WEVAS system invaluable this year working with special needs four-year-olds. It significantly changed the behavior of the child I was working with, after more traditional methods (sending him home, time-out, talking to him) did not work at all.� �Barbara packed the day with insights about young children and useful strategies for the classroom teacher … we were energized.� �Barbara�s workshop is not only practical, but full of her own personal experiences.� �Virtually everyone learned practical strategies they couldn�t wait to try!� �We were thrilled with the day! Barbara challenged teachers to rethink their classroom management practices and apply new ideas.� �Barbara did a fantastic job and seemed a natural at the virtual presentation. She was able to include the audience and be responsive. Very impressive presentation and content.� �This session was informative, fun, interactive, and a great use of my time.� �Very knowledgable providing feedback to questions. Very informative and helped ease my mind and speculations.� �Barbara conducted a wonderful workshop. She was extremely inclusive and addressed and responded to questions in a timely manner while also sharing various perspectives and allow ongoing feedback.� �The presenter is knowledgeable about this field, and very enthusiastic and offers effective and realistic strategies that I can adapt in my regular education class.� �This is the most comprehensive explanation of the trauma the children have experienced and how vigilant we need to be to re-open safely.� �Barbara�s webinar was THE MOST informative. Practical information that is REALISTIC.� �This was the best training/webinar I have done during the COVID-19 situation on how it is affecting both staff, children, and our field as a whole both now and moving forward.� �Wonderful training! I appreciate that while my head is spinning trying to navigate all of the new requirements, she brought the focus to the children. I really needed that! Thank you.� Where is Barbara going?
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2019 |
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January 23, 2019 | WEBINAR�������� |
Early Childhood Investigations Bullying in ECE: What we need to know to make a difference |
March 12�15, 2019 | Hartford, Connecticut | Devereux Center for Resilient Children �Facing the Challenge� Training of Trainers |
April 5, 2019 | Cleveland, Ohio | Project Aware Full Day Workshop �Nothing I Do Works!� |
April 13, 2019 | Whitby, Ontario | Durham District School Board Keynote: The Importance of SEL and session �I didn�t mean to ruin your day!� |
April 30�May 2, 2019 | Montgomery, Alabama | Devereux Center for Resilient Children �Facing the Challenge� Training of Trainers |
June 4, 2019 | Long Beach, California | NAEYC Professional Learning Institute �Where Is the Fairy Dust?� The director�s role in supporting staff and families when there is a child with challenging behavior at the school or center |
June 18�21, 2019 | Villanova, Pennsylvania | Devereux Center for Resilient Children �Facing the Challenge� Training of Trainers |
2020 | ||
March 25, 2020 | WEBINAR | Early Childhood Investigations Early Childhood Investigations Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Behavior |
May 13�15, 2020 | San Diego, California | Rehab Seminars Conference: Three Full-Day Sessions: Building Positive Connections: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively to Students' Challenging Behavior How Administrators and Specialists Can Support Students, Families and Teachers When There Is a Student with Challenging Behavior at the School, WEVAS: Working Effectively with Violent and Aggressive States |
May 28, 2020 | WEBINAR | Ohio Association for Early Childhood Education (OAEYC) Getting Ready for the New Normal: Supporting Children, Staff, and Families When Your Center Re-opens |
June 11, 2020 | WEBINAR | Early childhood Investigations Beyond Covid-19: Supporting Children, Families, and Staff to Reintegrate to the New Normal |
June 17, 2020 | WEBINAR | Early Childhood Community Development Centre (ECCDC). Opening Pre-Ks and Child Care Centers in the Time of the Coronavirus: Supporting Children, Staff, and Families |
July 10, 2020 | WEBINAR | ContinuED |
2021 | ||
9 January 2021 | WEBINAR | CFC Committee for Children, Creating a Caring Culture: The Leadership Role |
28 January 2021 | WEBINAR | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Understand the Child�s Behavior and Why It pushes an Adult�s Buttons |
29 January 2021 | WEBINAR | Ohio AEYC, Creating a Caring Culture: The Leadership Role |
8 February 2021 | WEBINAR | Early Childhood Community Development Centre (ECCDC), Beyond Survival: The Importance of Resilience |
12 February 2021 | WEBINAR | Ohio AEYC, Panel Discussion |
25 February 2021 | WEBINAR | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Child Care Directors Leadership Role on Challenging Behaviors |
4 March 2021 | WEBINAR | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Preventing Challenging Behavior in Young Children |
16 March 2021 | WEBINAR | The Center for Schools and Communities, Beyond COVID-19: Supporting Children, Families and Staff to Reintegrate to the New Normal |
1 April 2021 | WEBINAR | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Responding Effectively to a Child�s Challenging Behavior |
1�3 April 2021 | PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR | University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Addressing Challenging Behavior in Young Children: The Leader�s Role |
21 April 2021 | WEBINAR | Early Childhood Investigations, Reducing Challenging Behavior: The Administrators Role as Change Agent |
May 21, 2021 | WEBINAR | ECCDC Importance of Creating a Caring Culture: The Leadership Role |
May 25, 2021 | WEBINAR | ECCDC Beyond Survival: The Importance of Resilience |
June 10, 2021 | NAEYC DAP Symposium | NAEYC Addressing Challenging Behavior: The Power of Prevention |
June 22, 2021 | Manitoba Child Care Association | Beyond COVID19: Supporting Children, Families & Staff to Reintegrate to the New Normal |
June 25, 2021 | Berkshire County Head Start | �Nothing I Do Works!� |
August 14, 2021 | Candelen Association for Supportive Childcare | Opening the Culture Door: Understanding the Impact Your Culture Has on Your Teaching Style and Expectations of Children�s Behavior |
September 10, 2021 | Arkansas Department of Education | Beyond COVID19: Supporting Children, Families & Staff to Reintegrate to the New Normal |
October 7, 2021 | Inner B.C. | Beyond COVID19: Supporting Children, Families & Staff to Reintegrate to the New Normal |
November 6, 2021 | Kern County Early Childhood | �Nothing I Do Works!� |
November 19, 2021 | La Escuelita | �I Didn't Mean to Ruin Your Day!� |
November 23, 2021 | German International School Silicon Valley | �I Didn't Mean to Ruin Your Day!� |
December 9, 2021 | Iowa Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health | �I Didn't Mean to Ruin Your Day!� |
2022 | ||
January 6, 2022 | Child Crisis Arizona | Opening the Culture Door: Understanding the Impact Your Culture Has on Your Teaching Style and Expectations of Children�s Behavior |
January 13, 2022 | NSECDIS | Culturally Responsive Practice |
January 15, 2022 | Iowa Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health | �Nothing I Do Works!� |
January 29, 2022 | Langley Community Services Society | Beyond COVID19: Supporting Children, Families & Staff to Reintegrate to the New Normal |
February 5, 2022 | Saskatchewan Polytechnic | �I Didn�t Mean to Ruin Your Day� Understanding Yourself and the Child |
February 12, 2022 | Saskatchewan Polytechnic | �Nothing I Do Works!� Preventing Children�s Challenging Behaviour |
February 19, 2022 | Saskatchewan Polytechnic | Where Is the Fairy Dust? Responding Effectively to Children�s Challenging Behaviour |
February 26, 2022 | Saskatchewan Polytechnic | Addressing Challenging Behaviour in Young Children: The Leadership Role |
March 10, 2022 | The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education | �I Didn�t Mean to Ruin Your Day� Understanding Children�s Behavior |
March 18, 2022 | LEARN Connecticut | Supporting Teachers in Addressing Challenging Behavior: A Team Approach |
April 21, 2022 | NSECDIS | Leaders and Change |