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 12 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 12 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.
Science
Classroom behavior and de-escalation in the science room — where labs, equipment, and group stations raise the stakes. Tackles safety-critical moments, lab and materials misuse, group-work friction, transitions and cleanup, and how to pause a hands-on activity safely.
Administration, including the Capstone
The leadership working session that turns every department's recommendations into building and district behavior policy. Includes policy drafting template, discussion guide, facilitator guide, and policy-on-a-page.
Watermarked display samples. Final materials are delivered as clean, fully editable files with purchase.
- 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 twelve with All Departments, or everything together — core PD, all twelve 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 12 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.