Behavior PD your secondary staff will actually use.
Ready-to-run professional development on classroom behavior and de-escalation for middle and high school — built to drop into a staff meeting, PLC, or PD day. Fully editable, fully cited, done for you.
Presentations
Core only — no departments, no Capstone.
The core Secondary PD in three ready-to-run lengths — Mini (8 short sessions), Mid (3 sessions), and Extended — with facilitator guides, discussion guides, participant handouts, and implementation tools.
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All Departments, including Capstone
The add-on bundle.
All 11 department working sessions, each tuned to that department's room, plus the Administration Capstone policy-drafting session.
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Everything
Best valueSave $9 — $9 less than buying Presentations and All Departments separately.
The core PD + all 11 departments + the Capstone. The whole library in one download.
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Preview the materials
Watermarked display samples. Final materials are delivered as clean, fully editable files with purchase.
By the end of this PD, participants will:
- Read behavior as communication. — Look past the surface to the need or function driving it, and respond to the cause instead of the symptom.
- Read the escalation cycle. — Name the phase a student is in and match the response — calm at agitation, safety at peak, reconnection at recovery — instead of reacting.
- Prevent more than they manage. — Use relationships, predictable routines, and proactive regulation to head off most behavior before it starts.
- Respond as one staff. — Agree on shared expectations and a common calm response, so a student meets the same approach from every adult, room to hallway to cafeteria.
- De-escalate in the moment. — Regulate themselves first, lower the temperature, use fewer words, and hold expectations without escalating.
- Respond trauma-informed and accountable. — Hold students accountable without re-traumatizing, pairing real support with consistent follow-through.
- Document so it holds up. — Write objective, defensible behavior notes that support referrals, tiers, and the record when it matters.
- Build the tiers and a crisis plan. — Put Tier 1–3 supports and a clear crisis protocol in place, so the hardest moments have a plan, not improvisation.
Built for the people doing the work.
Building and district leaders, instructional coaches, department chairs, and anyone who facilitates staff PD for a middle or high school — usable across every department, from core academics to CTE, electives, special education, and student-support staff.
License
Single-building license — present unlimited times within one building.
Delivery & refunds
Checkout and instant file delivery are handled by Gumroad — you'll get an email with your download link within seconds of purchase. All sales are final (digital download). Read the full refund policy.
One framework, tuned to every department
A 9th-grade English discussion and a chemistry lab don't run on the same rules. A phone out in a band room, a shoving match in a CTE shop, a student shut down in a resource room — each calls for different moves, and a one-size-fits-all PD day can't meet them all. Each department add-on takes the same framework your staff already knows and tunes it to the room that department actually teaches in — in a working-session format built to drop into a department meeting or PLC.
There's a quieter payoff, too. Because each session runs inside a single department team instead of a packed all-staff PD, the room feels smaller and lower-stakes — so teachers tend to speak more candidly with the colleagues they trust. For a leader, that's often where you hear the unfiltered version: what's really working, where staff are stuck, and what they actually need next. And that's where real change starts — because you're finally solving what's actually wrong, not what you assumed.
English
Discussion-driven rooms where behavior shows up as words: refusal to participate, off-topic provocation, shutting down mid-conversation.
Mathematics
Where “I can't do this” frustration turns into avoidance, walkouts, or quiet refusal — de-escalating the shutdown before it becomes defiance.
Social Sciences
Charged topics and strong opinions; keeping debate productive when it gets personal or heated.
Fine Arts
Performance, critique, and exposure: behavior tied to vulnerability, perfectionism, and crowded studio and stage spaces.
CTE
Shops, labs, and equipment, where a behavior lapse is also a safety risk and consistency is non-negotiable.
Foreign Language
Speaking in front of peers and the anxiety behind it; behavior as cover for not wanting to be wrong out loud.
Multilingual Learners
Behavior that's easy to misread across language and culture: telling “won't” from “can't yet,” and responding without escalating.
Special Education
Students whose behavior is often communication; aligning de-escalation with IEPs, BIPs, and the support staff in the room.
Related Services
SLPs, OTs, counselors, and pull-out providers, with the dynamics of small-group and one-on-one settings.
Student Support Services
Deans, counselors, and staff who get the student after the blow-up: the office, the hallway, and the re-entry.
Specialists
Staff who work across many rooms and rosters instead of one, building consistency without a home-base relationship.
- Differentiated, not repeated — never the same slides recycled across every department.
- Meeting-ready — drops into a department meeting or PLC, no extra prep.
- Reinforces the schoolwide PD — same framework and language, so it deepens the core training instead of competing with it.
- Works on the students you're worried about right now — real de-escalation moves staff use the next day, so rooms get calmer fast.
Each department session ships with:
White-label · Dual-format · Cited
Get all eleven with All Departments, or everything together — core PD, all eleven departments, and the Capstone — with EverythingBest value
Every add-on includes the Administration Capstone — the policy-drafting session that turns staff input into policy — at no extra charge.
Questions, answered
Is it editable?▼
Yes. Every deck comes in PowerPoint plus a forced-copy Google Slides link, so you can add your school name and logo and adjust anything.
What's the difference between the three?▼
Presentations is the core PD (Mini, Mid, Extended). All Departments adds the 11 department sessions plus the Administration Capstone. Everything is both, bundled at the best price.
Can I just buy one department?▼
Departments come together in All Departments (or Everything); there's no separate per-department purchase.
How is it delivered?▼
Instantly. Right after checkout you get a download link, plus an email with your files and Google links.
Can I use it across my district?▼
The license covers a single building; reach out for district pricing.
Ready to skip the all-nighter?
Pick the bundle that fits your building and present it next week.