2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference

March 13 - 15, 2022

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6/22/2017  |   11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   |  Mindset Over Matter: One School's Effort to Overhaul How We Think About Behavior Management   |  Soldier Creek

Mindset Over Matter: One School's Effort to Overhaul How We Think About Behavior Management

Riley Elementary in the Salt Lake City School District, in partnership with the University of Utah's Education Policy Center, have developed a unique approach to their behavior support system that is having a transformative, sustainable impact. The focus has been understanding behavior through a child development lens and then equipping all faculty and staff with the tools to modify their own mindsets about behavior to positively influence behavior outcomes schoolwide. These six mindsets come from research and include: building positive relationships, seeking first to understand, avoiding power struggles, positive presuppositions, starting every day/hour new, and avoiding public shaming. These mindsets translate to everyday, tangible strategies that can be used to improve school culture and to organically influence student behavior for the better.

  • Participants will be able to associate behavior with research about child development and how our expectations about behavior ought to be aligned to support the developmental needs of students.
  • Participants will be able to hear about all six of the mindsets used to inform behavior at Riley Elementary and the ways these mindsets are influenced by research from the field.
  • Participants will be able to see and hear examples of how the mindsets translate to daily practice and interactions with young people.

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James Martin (), Riley Elementary--Salt Lake City School District, james.martin@slcschools.org;
James Martin, Ed.D, is the principal of Riley Elementary in the Salt Lake City School District, a post he has held since July of 2016. Prior to that, Dr. Martin served as a Director of School Leadership Support at the district office supervising turnaround principals. Dr. Martin's dissertation was on culturally-relevant pedagogy. This is his tenth year in administration and twentieth year in education.


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Ashley McKinney (), Utah Education Policy Center, ashley.mckinney@utah.edu;
Ashley McKinney worked as a teacher and instructional coach for public schools. She earned her M.Ed. in Administration from UCLA and her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Utah. McKinney's research interests focus on the intersection of school improvement, social justice, and school climate.   


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Summer Briggs (), Riley Elementary--Salt Lake City School District, summer.briggs@slcschools.org;
Summer teaches 5th grade at Riley Elementary.


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