The BAIT Debate

Lorie and Joceline discuss methods to help motivate students and reinforce positive behavior.

Bait debate will address simple research based behavioral practices that will work with individual students or groups of students in school settings. Today we're going to be talking about finding function, especially the tricky ones. So, Lorie, what makes finding the right function tricky? There are so many factors that go into finding the right function. Some of those factors could be your la...

Everything we do with students should have teaching in mind, whether it's academic or behavioral. 

The situations and questions that we talk about are adapted from what we are seeing and hearing in schools. These are common struggles with students of all abilities. Although they are simple strategies, they will be effective at decreasing challenging behavior and making your day just a little bit easier. We're excited to share these strategies to make them available to teachers, general teac...

So let's talk about what are some types of crises that we see in schools. All types of crisis nowadays. We're seeing them in both general education and special education classrooms.

Lorie and Joceline are talking about wounding words or verbal threats that students can make at school. There are many different types of verbal threats like harm to self, harm to others, or a threat to destroy property. Learn how to handle and overcome verbal threats like a pro.

Today Lorie and Joceline will be talking about when students take too many breaks or using them wisely. Learn how educators can add breaks to their tool bag helping students be more successful and stay on task.

What is a behavior analyst favorite kind of fruit? Cantaloupe! Today Lorie and Joceline are talking about elopement or as they like to call it, tricky tag. Most people understand elopement to be when a couple goes off and to get married, but when we're talking about an elopement in a school setting, we are talking about a runner. Learn about the different types of runners and why students deci...

Today we talk about breaks and how to appropriately. Also we apologize for the lateness of this episode

An Announcement on Episode 10.

today we talk about reinforcement, and how and when to use it.

Today we talk about exhaustion and how to best deal with it.

Today we talk about Functions joined once again by special guest Brecken.

Today we talk about reinforcement, clear up some misconceptions, and how to use it. We also have our first special guest Brecken!

Today we discuss the very important tool of waiting, and how to use it.

Today we talk about power struggles, what they are, and how to handle them.

Today we talk about Empathy, and what it means to show and share it. Note: We apologize for the sudden stop in episodes. Our editors have been having trouble accessing the episode files. We should be returning back to our normal schedule.

Today we distinguish what behaviors are considered dangerous or disruptive and how to tell the difference.

today we talk about Deadly Directions