Professional Development
Date:
June 5, 2025
Time:
9:00am-4:00pm
Location:
Schultz Center
4019 Boulevard Center Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32207
Registration Deadline:
May 23, 2025; 5:00 PM
The Optimistic Teaming: Coordination Strategies for Tough Student Situationstured Heart Approach & Transition Resets
Training Description
Join Drs Ben Springer and Ben Belnap for their humorous and insightful style and gain access to ready-to-use strategies to help solve the toughest student situations. What are “tough student situations?” Any student situation involving extreme aggression, noncompliance, and escalation. Attendees will leave with evidence-based methods to rally teams, build optimism, and improve safety for faculty and students.
Training Objectives
- Attendees will understand how to discuss, build, and activate optimism in teammates when morale is low.
- Attendees will be able to utilize step-by-step procedures to build staff safety plans and student safety plans.
- Attendees will be able to access to 24/7 resources in team coordination, behavior plan development, and optimistic teaming.
Target Audience
School Administrators and Leadership Teams
About the Presenter
Ben Springer is an award-winning and nationally certified school psychologist. Dr. Springer is also the author of the popular books Happy Kids Don't Punch You in the Face (2018) and GPS: Good Parenting Strategies (2021). Dr. Springer has served in schools as an autism specialist, school psychologist, behavior specialist, and Director of Special Education. In 2017, Dr. Springer founded Totem PD, a professional development company for educators and mental health practitioners with Dr. Ben Belnap.
Ben Belnap is an award-winning clinical psychologist practicing in the state of Utah. Dr. Belnap has contributed to state and national professional learning trainings for over a decade focusing on the applications of Positive Psychology, Family Systems, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Belnap has served in schools as an assistant superintendent of student services, behavior specialist, and school psychologist. Dr. Belnap currently manages a neuropsychology and counseling clinic in Heber City, Utah and helps manage Totem PD as a trainer and consultant.
Contact
Amy Lane
Amy.lane@jax.ufl.edu
or (904) 633 4338
Regional Trainings are hosted by the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, through the Partnership for Effective Programs for Students with Autism (PEPSA), a program funded by the State of Florida, Department of Education, K-12 Public Schools, Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services, through federal assistance under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part B. www.DOEpartnership.org
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