• Conducts or assists in developing interventions, functional behavior assessments, and behavior plans for the purpose of providing a safe and effective educational environment for students with challenging behaviors.

• Assists educators in understanding the different causes of challenging behavior, principles of effective reinforcement, teaching new behaviors, and implementing strategies to decrease and/or eliminate problematic behavior.​

 

CREA also provides professional development, on-going coaching, and on-site support for individual teachers, small groups of teachers, or entire staffs on topics including, but not limited to:

• Creating a solid classroom management foundation

• Identifying preventative procedures, structures, and strategies

• Implementing verbal and non-verbal strategies and techniques that encourage cooperation, problem solving skills, and positive, trusting relationships 

• Conducting Functional Behavior Assessments

• Using different types of behavior data to create individualized Behavior Plans

• Explain, model, and co-teach strategies for teaching students with Specific Learning Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, or Autism Spectrum Disorders

 

 

IEP Compliance  Services

 

The CREA is ready to help your school with a variety of IEP services from general compliance to data-driven IEP accountability for student success. Our Behavior Specialist, Kayla Vandal holds a Masters Degree in Elementary Education and is licensed as a Special Education Strategist with credentials in emotional disturbances and specified learning disabilities. Using the NDMTSS framework, a proactive approach to provide all students the best opportunities to succeed academically and behaviorally, Kayla can provide professional learning and direct services matched to student need.