Secondary · Classroom Behavior & De-escalation

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

$29

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

$29

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 value
$49

Save $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.

Learning outcomes

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.
Who this is for

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

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Department Add-ons

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:

Working Session deckFacilitator GuideDiscussion GuideImplementation GuideParticipant Handout

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.

Quick answers

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.