ILLINOIS COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN WITH EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

2021 WINTER CONFERENCE

APART

LEARNING TOGETHER

PRESENTED VIRTUALLY 

Friday, February 5th-Saturday February 6th

Friday, February 5th

4:00-4:50 pm (General Audience)

Jennifer Buchter, Assistant Professor, Cori Moore, Assistant Professor, and Jennifer Stringfellow, Associate Professor, Eastern Illinois University--PBIS, Trauma Informed Care, and Restorative Justice: Can These Frameworks Work Together to Support Students?

5:00-5:50 pm (General Audience)

Jonathan Masters, Teacher, Author, Speaker--Social/Emotional Intelligence: The Most Important Lesson In (And Out of) the Classroom

6:00-6:50 pm (General Audience)

Richard Van Acker, Emeritus Professor--What’s Going On? Effective Strategies to Address the Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Disorders of Younger Students

7:00-7:50 pm (General Audience)

Shelley Kenow, Author, Special Education Teacher, Consultant--Working with Paraprofessionals; 20 Talking Points

Saturday, February 6

8:00-8:50 am (choice of one of the following)

Samuel Whitley, School Psychologist, and Lindsay Eck, School

Psychologist--A Review of Electronically Based Mental Health Tools: Barriers, Tools, and Considerations for Use by Parents and Educational Personnel

Jennifer Stringfellow, Associate Professor, Jennifer Buchter, Assistant Professor, and Cori Moore, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University--Behavior Principles 101 for Teacher Candidates, Beginning Teachers, and Seasoned Ones

Shelley Kenow, Special Education Teacher, Author, and Educational Consultant--Lessons For a Lifetime

9:00-9:50 am (Choice of one of the following)

Jonathan Masters, Teacher, Author, Speaker--Destructive to Productive: Creating a Restorative Justice Culture; Restorative Contract

Tom Reilly, Professor Emeritus, Chicago State University--An Ounce of Prevention: Matching Interventions to Antecedent Behaviors

Vinnie Hall, Adjunct Professor, Roosevelt University--Trauma Informed Training: Strategies and Resources  Trauma Informed Care for Children  Childhood Trauma and the Brain

10:00-11:15-- KEYNOTE ADDRESS:The Top Ten Legal Issues in These Difficult Times, Including Compensatory Education

(Neal Takiff & Shermin Ali, Attorneys at Law, Whitted Takiff, LLC) (General Audience)

Saturday, February 6th (continued)

12:00 – 12:50 pm (Choice of one of the following)

Shelley Kenow, Author, Special Educator, Educational Consultant--How to Include Your Students; Ways to Build Relationships

Jennifer Buchter, Assistant Professor, Jennifer Stringfellow, Associate Professor, and Cori Moore, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University--Supporting A Diverse and Representative Teacher Workforce

M. William Moore, Middle School Teacher, 8th grade--Schools Not a Place for People Like You: Relationships and Resiliency

1:00-1:50 pm( Choice of one of the following)

Margaret Kelly Carroll, Professor, Saint Xavier University--Behavior Management for Paraprofessionals

Patricia Kubistal, Administrator, Chicago Public Schools (Retired)--Why Is Today Different?

Melanie Unterman, Special Education Teacher/Consultant (Retired)--Service-Based Learning

2:00-2:50 pm (Choice of one of the following)

Jennifer Buchter, Assistant Professor and Cori Moore, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University--Changing Self-Injurious Behaviors Into Communication

Sarah Wareham, Assistant Professor, University of Indianapolis--Makerspace as a Tool for Social Emotional Learning

3:00-3:50 pm (Choice of one of the following)

Jennifer Buchter, Assistant Professor, Cori Moore, Assistant Professor, and Jennifer Stringfellow, Associate Professor, Eastern Illinois University--Large Group Video Modeling to Increase Social Interactions in Inclusive Classrooms

Cary Knox, Special Educator, Author--Identifying and Assisting Socially At-Risk Students

Jonathan Masters, Teacher, Author, Speaker--Kindness in Crisis: If What You’re Doing Isn’t working S.T.O.P.