Safe & Civil Schools

WINTER AND SPRING TRAINING WITH SPRICK, SPRICK or ARCHER … Marilyn Sprick will provide Third Quest virtual training--our last trainings for this school year. Register now, order materials, and watch your struggling adolescent readers begin to thrive. Learn more  at TheThirdQuest.com/Training or request an overview at TheThirdQuest.com   For winter workshops with Jessica Sprick  on classroom management, mutli-tiered systems of support for behavior, and improving attendance … Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/gbYpTe2h For Anita Archer's spring Explicit Instruction: Train the Trainers go to: https://lnkd.in/geecwXbS

Join Jessica Sprick this upcoming January 2025 and February 2025 for these enriching workshops in the Dallas and Chicago areas. Visit https://lnkd.in/g6x9y57t to learn more.

Join Jessica Sprick on August 20, 5 pm - 6 pm ET (2 pm - 3 pm PT) for a free CEC webinar: Practical Strategies to Create a Positive and Engaging Learning Environment https://lnkd.in/eHfuUuaz

Join Jessica Sprick for this free CEC Webinar on Practical Strategies to Create a Positive and Engaging Learning Environment August 20, 2024 5 pm to 6 pm ET In this webinar, Jessica Sprick will help new and early-career special educators consider practical ways that they can consciously construct an invitational school/classroom climate and ways they can boost student engagement through concepts such as ratios of interaction, Guidelines for Success, and active participation strategies that help all learners experience a sense of purpose, place, and success.

Free Web Meeting for Decision-Makers: The Science of Reading Intervention Join Marilyn Sprick on Friday August 9, at 9:00 am Pacific for this live and interactive web meeting where we will diagnose how poor readers process text. Explore MTSS at Tiers 2 and 3 and learn why finding the right book doesn't work. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/eAvv-zgJ

Consultant Jessica Sprick recently published a primer on the ASCD blog about shifting from punitive to proactive strategies to reduce chronic absenteeism. Contact us if you are interested in bringing in-depth proactive strategies for improving attendance to your district. 

Chronic absenteeism is making front-page news these days because chronic absenteeism across the country has almost doubled. https://lnkd.in/eTuvr4tv While addressing chronic absenteeism can feel like an insurmountable challenge, there are many things that schools, districts, and other partnering organizations can do to create meaningful change. The latest Safe & Civil Schools newsletter looks at resources to help schools and districts create a culture of good attendance: https://lnkd.in/gxb5YfSC

Listen to NPR interview with Safe & Civil Schools' Jessica Sprick discussing how the Meaningful Work intervention makes a difference in student behavior.

Learn how an elementary school in Kansas is using the Meaningful Work intervention to foster a sense of belonging and purpose for its students: https://lnkd.in/gHTHHDd7