Positive Behavioral Supports Using High-Leverage Practices

Today’s classrooms are increasingly diverse in the ways students experience engagement, regulation, and connection to learning — and educators are often expected to respond effectively without a shared framework for doing so. Established high-leverage practices can strengthen positive behavioral supports and learning environments, helping students who experience challenges participate more fully, feel supported, and experience greater success in learning.

Participants will be introduced to the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) High-Leverage Practices model (HLP), which organizes evidence-based and effective teaching and teaming practices into four overarching domains. Participants will learn to identify the core features of each of these domains and their relationship to positive student outcomes.
Through a mixture of presentation, group discussion, and individual/group exploration, participants will apply these practices to building and maintaining positive behavioral supports in school settings. In addition, they will have opportunities to share experiences, insights, and reflections relating to their own professional work. Participants will put the practices into action and are encouraged to come with a student team in mind to help bring the training material to life.

Participants will:

• Describe the four domains of the HLP framework and their relevance to supporting diverse learners: Collaboration, Data-Driven Planning, Instruction in Behavior and Academics, and Intensify and Intervene as Needed.
• Explore how HLP within each domain can promote student access, participation, and belonging.
• Apply HLP to develop student-centered behavioral support plans that recognize individual strengths, needs, and contexts.
• Learn how to integrate HLP into everyday interactions with students, families, colleagues, and other stakeholders to foster collaborative, respectful, and responsive relationships.