Training

How To Develop Effective Trainings

PENT Cadre members have received advanced training on how to provide effective trainings. Documents to improve your trainings on any topic are available:

• Active Learning by Alice Curtis: Intro | Strategies | Training Matrix
• Training Techniques Bibliography by Alice Curtis
• Diana's Top 10 Training Tips
• Guided Imagery Script
• Icebreakers
• Training Planning Sheet - 6 Hour Sample | Blank Form
• Principles of Adult Learning by Alice Curtis
• Setting Group Norms
• Techniques for Dealing with Difficult People
• Training Tips for New Trainers by Alice Curtis

Training Calendars
Throughout California, training is provided to educators to develop and sustain positive practices in schools, classrooms, and for use in individual behavior plans.

Calendars for trainings provided by the California Department of Education, Diagnostic Centers' specialists. See websites:

Diagnostic Center, South (Los Angeles)

Diagnostic Center, North (Fremont)

Diagnostic Center, Central (Fresno)

Calendar for PENT Cadre Members conducting local trainings:
Approximately 200 PENT members were selected by their SELPAs to become the PENT Cadre. They have received advanced training and are locally disseminating a variety of trainings for their regions. To determine what training is available in a local region, contact local Cadre members.

Trainings by Diana Browning Wright - contact PENT@dcs-cde.ca.gov

Archives of Diana Browning Wright's Trainings

Trainings have been conducted statewide through the PENT project. All currently relevant materials from those trainings are available on this website. You may use these materials for training staff with proper citation of all material. Do not publish without permission, do not omit references or credits. Contact: PENT@dcs-cde.ca.gov if you have dissemination questions.

You may open any of the trainings below for a complete table of contents. You may then click on the document you wish to open and print.

LRP 2008:

• Maintaining LRE through Supplementary Aids and Supports - PowerPoint | handouts
• The Ups and Downs of Serving Students with Bipolar Disorder - PowerPoint | handouts

Training Archives:

• Accommodations and Modifications: Differentiating Instruction and Promoting Staff Implementation in the Era of High Standards
• Effective Strategies for Successful Teaching
• Behavior Plan Practicum: Developing and Scoring High Quality Behavior Plans
• Strategies To Achieve Success With Difficult Learners
• Balancing Zero Tolerance/Zero Rejection
• Behavior Plans That Work
• Hand In Hand: Accountability & Coordination In Behavior Support, Accommodation, and Mental Health Treatment Planning

Additional training documents are throughout this website.