Not Your Average Teacher’s Lounge

Join Kathryn Elmen and Alexandra Kay to learn about Not Your Average Teacher’s Lounge; The Impact of a Staff Reinforcement Space on PFA/SBT Buy In and Teacher Burnout!

Course Abstract: Our public school district began implementing Dr Hanley’s Practical Functional Assessment and Skill Based Treatment (PFA/SBT). We noticed a correlation between incorporating preferred items into students’ environments and students’ decrease in problem behavior and increase in access to curriculum. Bringing joy resulted in positive outcomes for or students. While current statistics confirm that teacher burnout and attrition rates are at an all time high, we hypothesized that access to preferred items for teachers would impact these rates within our district and also increase buy in of PFA/SBT. We surveyed teachers and support staff to determine preferences and created an HRE (Happy Relaxed Engaged)space that they access throughout the school day.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the impact of individualized preference assessment incorporating preferred items on engagement with content.
• Examine the correlation between staff reinforcement spaces and teacher burnout and PFA/SBT buy in.
• Teacher survey results will be interpreted and future implications will be explored.
• Learn ways to practically apply the method used to develop a staff reinforcement model in their respective work environments.