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Setting Up the Learning Environment: Tools and Strategies for Successful Instruction
In our Safety Care curriculum, we focus heavily on the importance of our physical environment(s) and how modifications and intentional placement of materials can help prevent and/or decrease negative situations from occurring, to begin with. More importantly, it also...
How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep During the Pandemic
Why we may not be getting the sleep we need: COVID-19 has erupted into our world and brought with it a whole host of fears, anxieties, and stressors. Those anxieties, fears, and stressors make it much harder, or in some cases, nearly impossible to get a good...
Reinforcement MythBusters
The concept of rewarding a person for desired behavior is not uncommon, as there is a large body of research supporting the effectiveness of reinforcement for behavior change. However, many parents, teachers, caregivers, babysitters, refuse the idea of rewarding...
Group Contingencies: A simple method for decreasing the use of cell phones in a High school classroom
Cell phone usage can negatively impact academic performance. In July of 2018, the French government passed a law banning cell phones in schools (CNN, 2018). This law arrived on the heels of several studies detailing just how much cell phone use negatively impacted...
Organizational Resilience: Understanding burnout
Burnout-related turnover is a complex, systemic problem that is highly disruptive to organizational functioning. Preventing and managing burnout may contribute to an organization’s success and efficacy. This post discusses how to recognize and understand burnout as...
A Glimpse into the Work of a Master Trainer at QBS
As a Master Trainer working for QBS people often ask me about what my work week looks like. I completely understand the wonder. Working as a BCBA as a third-party consultant who travels around the country doing trainings is a bit, unique. So, I thought it might be...
Self-Care for Providers
Why Do We Need Self-Care? Whether we work as a Behavior Analyst, Counselor, Nurse, Correctional Officer, or the many other fields that require us to care for others as part of our job; we are routinely exposed to moments of stress, traumatic circumstances, or things...
Self-Monitoring: A How-To for Behavior Change
Self-monitoring, also sometimes referred to as self-observing or self-recording, is an effective tool for behavior change. In simple terms, it’s the act of observing, measuring, and evaluating one’s own behavior. Self-monitoring programs and strategies can take many...
Pandemic Survival: Staying Safe, Active, & Productive
Okay, everyone, it’s time for me to come clean. In 2020, I spent way too much time on the old internet machine viewing others utilize their pandemic downtime to do awesome stuff like bake yummy artisan bread, knit clothing, create rad looking pottery, and get in peak...
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