Mastering Classroom Management

Building a Strong Sense of Classroom Community

⚙️ Safe & Collaborative Cultures ⚙️ Highly Effective Teaching & Leading 🪑 Seated 💲 Paid 🏫 Member Hosted

Two-Day Series

  • Dates: August 6-7, 2025; Participants attend both days

  • Time: 8-4 PM each day

  • Location: Holiday Inn Ballroom, 2781 N Westwood Blvd, Poplar Bluff MO 63901

  • Intended Audience: Pre K-12th grade Teachers, Principals & Assistant Principals, Instructional Coaches, University Professors, Preservice Teachers

  • Lunch: One hour, on your own

Registration

  • This event is hosted by Poplar Bluff Schools with seats available for GOCSD Members. Staff from Poplar Bluff do not need to register through GOCSD.

  • Fee for GOCSD Members: $200 for both days.

  • The registration also includes resource materials specific to elementary or secondary.

  • Payment Options: When paying by credit card, a 3.5% processing fee will be added. Members can request that an invoice be sent, now or in July. Substitutions are encouraged, as refunds will not be provided.

  • Registration closes July 14th.

We encourage district teams to attend together to consider how this might be implemented at both the site and classroom level for student and educator success!

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Why Attend?

This session offers a proactive, positive, and instructional approach to classroom management designed to help teachers manage student behavior and increase student motivation. It is based on the comprehensive, research-based CHAMPS approach from Safe and Civil Schools.

Using practical strategies that set the stage for appropriate behavior, the teacher is able to focus on maintaining positive interactions. Teachers learn how to collect data to inform their decisions on classroom management and select strategies that best fit the needs of their own classroom. Key components include:

  • Structuring your classroom for success

  • Teaching students how to be successful in the classroom

  • Learning to observe student behavior

  • Interacting positively and correcting fluently

Teachers learn to organize their classroom environment and establish routines and expectations that provide the appropriate level of support and structure for any given group of students. Educators will learn practical strategies designed for elementary classrooms and strategies for secondary classrooms.

They will learn how to structure for success, reduce misbehavior before it happens, focus on positive behavior and student strengths, and use an instructional approach to correct behavioral missteps.

Teachers will learn practical strategies to:

  • Motivate students to engage in responsible behavior

  • Build positive relationships

  • Manage their work

  • Understand acceptable uses of electronic devices in the classroom

  • Engage with instruction

"Our school has found a lot of success through the implementation of CHAMPS. We want to continue the training for all new staff members at the junior high, but also want to open it up to veteran teachers who would be interested in the training."

Tim Butler  

   Assistant Principal, Branson Schools

"Using the CHAMPS matrix has helped my classroom function seamlessly. Each student knows the expectations and they can always look at the visual posted in the room if they need a reminder. I love that for each part of my lesson, I have clear, consistent expectations. It is nice to use common language throughout our entire building. CHAMPS is highly effective and has been one of the best management tools in my classroom. I am looking forward to another year of continuing to use CHAMPS."

Andrea Oliver  

   8th Grade Math, Branson Schools

"The CHAMPS training has greatly impacted my classroom in a positive way. It has provided a level of consistency and clarity to my students that have made a huge difference in my day-to-day operations."

Chase Jackson  

   7th Grade Math, Branson Schools

Guest Expert

Tricia McKale Skyles

Tricia McKale Skyles
Senior Consultant
Safe & Civil Schools

Tricia McKale Skyles is a senior educational consultant with Randy Sprick’s Safe and Civil Schools. After being a classroom teacher, Tricia served as an Instructional Coach with Dr. Jim Knight. Through her initial work with coaching, she assisted teachers in implementing CHAMPS Classroom Management. After moving into the role of Behavior Coach, she began to work extensively with the Safe and Civil Schools' library of resources. She now works with SCS to provide training, coaching, and consultation with district and campus leaders, classroom teachers, and paraprofessionals. A middle school teacher at heart, Tricia now resides in Rolla, MO, with her family, when she isn’t flying around the country in an aluminum tube.

Event Host

Classroom Management ranked as one of the top requests of this year’s GOCSD Professional Learning Needs Assessment so we are excited to partner with Poplar Bluff District to offer this session. We appreciate this district providing seats for GOCSD Members. Staff from Poplar Bluff do not need to register through GOCSD.

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