Special Education Event Online TONIGHT

The Seattle Special Education PTSA, in partnership with The Arc of King County, Roots of Inclusion, PAVE (Partnerships for Action, Voices for Empowerment), Open Doors for Multicultural Families, Washington Multicultural Services Link, and WA State OSPI present a conversation with Dr. Ross Greene:

"KIDS DO WELL IF THEY CAN"

 How Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) Helps Schools Meet the Needs of ALL LEARNERS While Reducing Exclusionary Disciplinary Practices Like Suspensions, Restraints and Isolation. 

“Kids Do Well If They Can” will explore how Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS) uses compassion and problem solving to help schools meet the needs of all learners, while reducing punitive, exclusionary disciplinary practices like suspensions, restraints, and isolation. 

The free, online event will run from 6 to 8 pm.

It is an opportunity for families and educators to hear what schools get right and what they get wrong in supporting learners.

Dr. Greene will explain CPS, an evidence-based model that offers educators proven tools to support students and respond to concerning behavior.
Attendees will learn why discipline as usual is not working and how it leaves adults struggling and frustrated and children cut off from support, instead of engaging students and educators in solving problems collaboratively and proactively.

Lives in the Balance is a nonprofit based in Maine that provides free resources on the CPS model and advocates on behalf of vulnerable children and their caregivers caught up in a societal and public health crisis. CPS has transformed thinking and practices in families and schools throughout the world and has helped achieve dramatic reductions in adult-child conflict, concerning behaviors, disciplinary referrals, detentions, suspensions, restraints, and seclusions.

The Seattle Special Education PTSA, The Arc of King County, Roots of Inclusion, PAVE, Open Doors for Multicultural Families and Washington Multicultural Services Link also advocate for children’s social and emotional health and wellbeing. Area schools continue to struggle with use of restraints and removal. Black students are more than twice as likely to be suspended as white students, and most incidents of restraint and isolation happen to children in grades pre-K to 5, with 93% of incidents involving students with disabilities. Our schools also continue to segregate children with disabilities at higher rates than most other states.

The “Kids Do Well If They Can” presentation is open to all and will be followed by a Q&A facilitated by Ramona Hattendorf, Director of Advocacy for the Arc of King County. Event organizers encourage families, educators, school district leaders, community partners, state legislators, and other advocacy organizations to attend.

About Dr. Greene:
Dr. Greene is the best-selling author of The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost & Found, and Raising Human Beings and the founding director of Lives in the Balance, a nonprofit based in Maine that provides free resources on the CPS model and advocates on behalf of vulnerable children and their caregivers caught up in a societal and public health crisis. CPS has transformed thinking and practices in families and schools throughout the world and has helped achieve dramatic reductions in adult-child conflict, challenging behaviors, disciplinary referrals, detentions, suspensions, restraints, and seclusions.  

Please note, this special event is in lieu of our November General Membership Meeting. Usual meeting business for November will resume at our next General Membership Meeting on December 6th.

Live interpretation will be provided in American Sign Language, Spanish, Somali, and Vietnamese.
 

Register on Eventbrite:
KidsDoWell.eventbrite.com
Educators will receive two clock hours which count toward continuing education credits in Washington State. Register for clock hours here: https://www.pdenroller.org/ospi/catalog/150774


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