This flier outlines Steve Vitto's presentation at the upcoming 2012 State MIBLSI Conference. Hope to see you there!!!

1. BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS
MIBLSI State Conference 2012
Wednesday, March 21rst
Break out Session C-2 Hour Block
Working with Oppositional & Defiant Students:
Highlighting Prevention & Therapeutic Situational Management Strategies
& Bringing Out the Best in Challenging Home School Partnerships
Administrators, Educators, Support Staff
This presentation will focus on evidenced based classroom management strategies for working with
students who present oppositional and defiant behavior. While considering the needs of students with
social maladjustment (Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorder) and students
with disabilities that manifest in anger management challenges and defiance, strategies will be
presented for preventing and diffusing outbursts and developing long term coping strategies and
replacement skills. Each participant will receive a CD containing a toolbox of strategies for
oppositional and defiant students, as well as resources and strategies for bringing out the best in
challenging home school partnerships. Each participant will have an opportunity to perform a
competing pathways planning exercise on a defiant student (i.e., resulting in a formal intervention
plan outline). In addition, each participant will have opportunities to role play diffusing a defiant
student.
About the Presenter: Steven Vitto, M.A., CCII., BTC, MAISD.
Steve has been a teacher and behavior teacher consultant, working in Muskegon for the past 33
years. Steve has degrees in clinical teaching, administration, and education. Steve is a certified Crisis
Prevention (CPI) Instructor, a Certified Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Instructor, a Certified
Davereux Personal Emergency Intervention Trainer, a Michigan MIBLISi State Trainer, a Certified
Balanced and Restorative Justice Trainer, an RTI Classroom Management trainer, and an Adjunct
Professor at Muskegon Community College. Steve recently has been involved as a college instructor
for educational staff working in Michigan’s Telamon Migrant Head Start Programs. (This project is a
statewide effort to encourage literacy and social skills among migrant and seasonal farm worker
children and to stress the enjoyment of reading). Steve is also currently working with Muskegon’s You
Turn Program, a specialized program which offers school services to expelled youth. Steve recently
developed a training process for with Challenging Home School Partnerships. Steve can be contacted
at svitto@muskegonisd.org. or 231-767-7277.
Scope and Sequence:
• Etiology- the origin of attachment problems and social maladjustment
• Symptoms- the characteristics of ODD, Conduct Disorder, and Social Maladjustment
• The Competing Pathways Treatment Model (From Functional Assessment to Replacement Skills
• Setting Event Strategies
• Antecedent or Prevention Strategies
• Teaching Replacement Skills
• Consequence Strategies
• Reward Strategies
• Life Space Intervention
• Strategies for Working with Defiant Students
OUTCOMES: Development of Competing Pathways Positive Behavior Support Plan