Building Bridges: Collaborative and Proactive Solutions to Student Behavior

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Please join the Allegheny Intermediate Unit’s Training & Consultation Team for this IN-PERSON Training.

Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), developed by Dr. Ross Greene and outlined in The Kids Who Aren’t OK: The Urgent Case for Reimagining Support, Belonging, and Hope in Schools , is a practical, relationship-based approach to supporting students with challenging behavior. This session will explore how CPS can be used across all three tiers of a PBIS framework. Participants will learn simple, usable strategies and tools to identify the real problems behind student behavior and engage students in solving those problems together. Instead of focusing on changing behavior in the moment, CPS shifts the focus to understanding why the behavior is happening and working collaboratively with students to address those underlying challenges. The process is both proactive (addressing problems before they escalate) and collaborative (solving problems with students rather than doing things to them). Research shows that CPS not only reduces challenging behavior, but also builds important skills such as flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem-solving. Participants will leave with practical strategies and resources they can immediately apply in classroom and school setting.