Pennsylvania Approved Private Provider of Alternative Education
About Arcadia's B2EST Program
The B2EST Program of Arcadia University specializes in developing positive and effective approaches to deal with challenging behaviors. Our goals include improving classroom management, effective behavior management, and developing positive behavioral supports for parents, teachers, and schools. Using research based strategies, we help adults to support children and adolescents with problem behaviors, to reduce discipline referrals and school violence, and to increase academic performance. Specifically, B2EST professional activities include behavioral and academic consultations for school-wide interventions, and individual consultations for parents of children with autism or other developmental disabilities. Additionally, B2EST professional activities include applied behavioral analysis, teacher training, seminars, conferences, ongoing teacher support, and school-wide assessments. B2EST also provides organizational evaluations, team building and group development trainings to professional businesses.
There are two divisions of the B2EST Program. Key components of the classroom program include the TALID point system, the B2EST Step Forward System, social skills training, anger management training, individual behavior goals, positive teacher feedback, and the 5:1 ratio (high levels of directed praise).
Key components of the consulting and training division include customized in-service and professional development programs for administrators, teachers and paraprofessionals; specialized seminars, workshops and conferences for businesses and schools; program and curriculum development support; and collaboration with schools to develop functional assessments, academic and behavioral plans and special education programs.
In addition to operating Emotional Support classrooms in Philadelphia inner city schools, the program has also conducted extensive consulting in this district, surrounding suburban school districts and in Los Angeles, Sante Fe, New York City, and South Carolina schools.
To find out What Works or for other quick tips and motivational strategies, we invite you to look around our site.
"Teachers are effective professionals and want to be successful. Good behavior intervention practices do help them become more effective."
— Dr. Christina Ager, Executive Director
|