SAVE THE DATE!! August 4th, Northefield Inn, Springfield, IL
ILCCBD
2023 SUMMER CONFERENCE
Getting Off to a Great Start!!
Northfield Inn, Springfield, IL
August 4, 2023
Make your plans now to attend the ILCCBD 2023 Summer Conference, Aug. 4th in Springfield, IL. Speakers will address the topic of getting the new school year off to a great start in a workshop style format that is designed to give you the tools you will need to work with students with emotional/behavioral challenges throughout the school year. PDs will be provided to those who provide their IEIN and speaker handouts will be available on the 
ILCCBD Wiki.
A block of sleeping rooms has been reserved. To get the rate of $85 call the Northfield Inn and Suites at 217-523-7900 and identify yourself with the Illinois Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders.
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Summer Conference Program
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8:30 a.m.--9:30 a.m.
Why Do We Have More Children with Challenging Behaviors and What Can We Do?
This session will explain why more children engage in challenging behaviors and will provide over 75 strategies to work with them.
Speaker: Beverley H. Johns, President-Elect—Illinois Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders
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9:45n a.m.-19:45 a.m.
Packing Your Back to School Bag: Strategies to Start the School Year
Participants will learn and leave with tangible resources to prevent problem behavior and teach and reinforce the behaviors we want to see. The activities shared will support research found in the 2015 Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 17(1). Participants will leave armed with the research (the why) and practical strategies, activities, and planning (the what) to start the year. Get ready to be excited about the fresh start of a new year with easily implemented strategies and the resources to get started right away.
Speaker: Lisa Cipriano -- Behavior Analyst, Naperville District 20
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11:00 a.m. -12 noon
It Takes a Village: How to Develop a Classwide, Team Driven PBIS Plan
This session will show how, through collaboration, special educators can develop a classwide, team driven PBIS plan that facilitates the collection of individualized data on student progress in real time, as you teach. This plan also engages students and their families, paraprofessionals, and other education professionals as collaborators in supporting academic and social success throughout the school year.
Speaker: Elizabeth Hardman—President, ILCCBD
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12:15 p.m. -1:15 p.m.
Keeping Your Cup Full: Preparing Yourself for a Successful School Year
You've heard the phrase "you can't pour from an empty cup". In this session, participants will explore practices to maintain equilibrium throughout the school year no matter the challenges that come. Participants will add protective, responsive, and restorative strategies to their repertoire to promote optimum self-care.
Speaker: Michelle Laird, Special Education Director, Troy School District, and Secretary, ILCCBD
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ILCCBD Exhibitors 2023
1. Corey Stewart—Thirty One Gifts. Come see me for your back to school needs. Shop a wide variety of thermals, bags and totes, and lots of miscellaneous. Thirty One products are great.
2. Shelley Kenow IEP Consultant is a provider of professional development in the area of special education with a focus on understanding behavior, working with paraprofessionals, reducing paperwork and meetings, and leveling up your IEPs . Shelley is also the author of Those Who "Can't..." Teach. This book is getting rave reviews from teachers all across the country as being one of the best special education books out there! CEC says there isn't another book like this one. Be sure to stop by and purchase your copy today!
3. Carol Owles. The Illinois Reading Council International Project with Guatemala Handicrafts. All proceeds go to buy books for classrooms in Guatemala.
4. Kim Cooney, Usborne Books. A whole collection of books for children from babies through high school.
5. Leslie Lorenz. Feel your life with bling. A whole collection of jewelry for educators and also lovely ink pens that make wonderful gifts.
