Duct Tape is NOT a Behavioral Intervention

Why such a wacky title? In 2014, Dr. Riffel became aware of a court case where a little girl with cerebral palsy came home with her shoes duct taped to her feet so tightly that it cut off the circulation. When the parents inquired as to why her shoes were duct taped to her feet, the staff replied that she kept taking her shoes off. She was taken to the hospital.

As she researched she found more and more articles about educators using duct tape in the classroom. She wrote her first book "Duct Tape is NOT a Behavioral Intervention" in 2014. In 2015, it was in the news again and she wrote the sequel.

She had not thought about the book for awhile. However, recently there were more articles about duct tape being used by educators, so she did a search and sure enough there were at least eight cases in the last year.

She wrote this book and training to give you interventions for two behaviors that might have led educators in the past to use duct tape. The two behaviors are blurting and out of seat behavior. She will focus on :

• Ten Rules that Govern Behavior
• Putting on Your Cape
• Universal Classroom Interventions
• Tier Two Classroom Interventions
• Tier Three Classroom Interventions

This presentation includes 8 hours of videos and 9 hours of discussion time for PLC teams to discuss implementation strategies in their classrooms. Participants would leave this training with a plan for two of the biggest disruptive behaviors in the classroom.