School Staff Training on Positive Behavior Approaches and Disability Harassment Sample Clauses

School Staff Training on Positive Behavior Approaches and Disability Harassment. By 9/30/17, the District will provide mandatory training by an individual with appropriate expertise to all School administrators, teachers, and other staff at the School who interact with students, including custodians and playground supervisors, on the District’s use of proactive positive behavior approaches to deal with student behavior and on the District’s commitment and legal obligation to provide students with an environment that is free of disability harassment. The training will, at minimum, address the following topics: (i) The District’s positive behavior approaches, such as Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), restorative justice and/or a social emotional program or curriculum that is aligned with a response to intervention (RTI)1 framework, to respond to student behavior, including best practices with regard to positive behavior interventions to reduce or minimize removal from the classroom or other school activities; (ii) How students may have disabilities that impact their behavior and social interactions, and training on what to do if they suspect a student of 1 Response to intervention is an approach to academic and behavioral intervention to provide early, systematic, and appropriately intensive assistance to children who are at risk for or already underperforming as compared to appropriate grade- or age-level standards. RTI seeks to prevent academic and behavioral failure through universal screening, early intervention, frequent progress monitoring, and increasingly intensive research-based instruction or interventions for children who continue to have difficulty. having a disability or what to do if a student with a disability exhibits escalating behavioral, social and/or emotional needs which are negatively impacting their ability to access their education; (iii) A review of District policy and federal law (Section 504 and Title II) prohibiting discrimination, including harassment, against a student based on disability by another student, a District employee, or a third party; (iv) The types of conduct that could constitute disability-based harassment, such as verbal acts and name calling; and (v) A review of the procedure the District uses to respond to complaints of discrimination, including harassment based on disability, and what administrators and staff must do when they observe or learn of disability-based harassment of a student by a peer, a District employee, or a third party.