Research-based programs to turn around behavior
Clockwise from top left: Joe Newman with Veronica Binkley at Harding University Partnership School, Santa Barbara CA; Joe Newman presenting at Pioneer Montessori School, Ketchum ID; Joe Newman after presenting the Raising Lions method, Toronto ON; Joe Newman with Liz Bovey at Westside Montessori School Toronto ON.
Improve behavior, attention and engagement at school
Ask yourself these questions:
Are your paraprofessionals spending all of their time preventing one or two students from disrupting the class?
Are your teachers and staff at a loss for effective strategies with your toughest children?
Do you find yourself after many years of difficult work with one student still sending them to an alternative school?
What if you could turn that child around within one school year?
Imagine how much your school could improve it’s educational outcomes and teacher morale if you could cut off-task behavior in half, turn your toughest students around, and see a radical improvement in the self-prompting and self-control of your students.
University of California Santa Barbara research has shown the Raising Lions method reduced off-task behavior school-wide by 49%.
Early behavior intervention
The Raising Lions method is an effective early behavior intervention program. This research-based method trains administrators, teachers and paraprofessionals to work in unison to turn behaviors around in months, not years. The method is straightforward and shifts the fundamental causes at the root of disruptive and defiant behavior. Using workshops, small group training, and one-on-one coaching, the Raising Lions program brings all the staff together to work in unison around simple scripts that take the guesswork out of what to do in difficult moments. The programs are so effective that staff often see profound changes in behavior within the first days and weeks of implementation. After the shift has taken place, the Raising Lions team provides the support and guidance to ensure those changes become permanent.
Early intervention using the Raising Lions method alters the trajectory of a child’s school experience, integrates them back into the regular classrooms, and frees up paraprofessionals to enhance classroom learning rather than simply prevent it’s disruption.
Additionally, training can include specific programs for children with more severe behavior problems that fit seamlessly within classroom and school-wide systems. In this way, students with special needs are quickly reintegrated back into the regular classroom and become truly mainstreamed.
Schools can get training and support virtually, in person, or as a hybrid that includes both.