Behavior Solutions. John Hannigan
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
John Hannigan, EdD, is an executive leadership coach for Fresno County Superintendent of Schools in California. He has served in education for more than sixteen years as a principal, assistant principal, instructional coach, and teacher.
In his nine years as principal of Reagan Elementary in California’s Sanger Unified School District, John led a highly effective professional learning community (PLC). Reagan Elementary was recognized as a National Model PLC School, a California Distinguished School, a California Gold Ribbon School, and an exemplary response to intervention (RTI) school for both academics and behavior. The school received a Title I Academic Achievement Award, was awarded platinum-level status for positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS), and was selected as a knowledge-development site for the statewide scale-up of a multitiered system of supports (MTSS). John serves on the California Department of Education design team for the implementation of MTSS.
John has coauthored The PBIS Tier Two Handbook, The PBIS Tier Three Handbook, Don’t Suspend Me!, and Building Behavior.
John earned a master’s degree and doctoral degree in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno.
To learn more about John’s work, follow @JohnHannigan75 on Twitter.
Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan, EdD, is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership Department at California State University, Fresno. She works with schools and districts throughout the United States on designing and implementing effective social-emotional and behavior systems. Her expertise includes RTI, PLCs, MTSS, PBIS, restorative practices, social-emotional learning, and more. The combination of her special education and student support services background, school- and district-level administration, and graduate-level teaching and research experiences has allowed her to develop inclusive research-based best practices for systemically implementing equitable behavior initiatives.
Jessica has coauthored The PBIS Tier One Handbook, The PBIS Tier Two Handbook, The PBIS Tier Three Handbook, Don’t Suspend Me!, and Building Behavior. She serves on the California Department of Education design team for the implementation of MTSS to help advocate and change the trending discipline inequity throughout the state’s schools and create positive school climates for all students. Some of her recognitions include the California Outstanding School Psychologist of the Year, Administrator of the Year, and Outstanding Faculty Publications and Service awards. Also, the California Legislature Assembly has recognized her work in social justice and equity, and she received the inaugural Association of California School Administrators Exemplary Woman in Education Award in 2017 for her relentless work around equity in schools.
Jessica received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s degree in school psychology, an administrative credential, and a doctorate in educational leadership.
To learn more about Jessica’s work, visit www.pbischampionmodelsystem.com or follow @Jess_hannigan on Twitter.
Mike Mattos is an internationally recognized author, presenter, and practitioner who specializes in uniting teachers, administrators, and support staff to transform schools by implementing response to intervention and professional learning communities. Mike cocreated the RTI at Work™ model, which builds on the foundation of the PLC at Work® process by using team structures and a focus on learning, collaboration, and results to drive successful outcomes.
He is former principal of Marjorie Veeh Elementary School and Pioneer Middle School in California. At both schools, Mike helped create powerful PLCs, improving learning for all students. In 2004, Marjorie Veeh, an elementary school with a large population of youth at risk, won the California Distinguished School and National Title I Achieving School awards.
A National Blue Ribbon School, Pioneer is among only thirteen schools in the United States that the GE Foundation selected as a Best-Practice Partner and is one of eight schools that Richard DuFour chose to feature in the video series The Power of Professional Learning Communities at Work: Bringing the Big Ideas to Life. Based on standardized test scores, Pioneer ranks among the top 1 percent of California secondary schools and, in 2009 and 2011, was named Orange County’s top middle school. For his leadership, Mike was named the Orange County Middle School Administrator of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators.
Mike has coauthored many other books focused on RTI and PLCs, including Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd edition); Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work; Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles; Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don’t Learn; Uniting Academic and Behavior Interventions: Solving the Skill or Will Dilemma; It’s About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Secondary School; It’s About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School; Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Secondary; Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Elementary; The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community; and Taking Action: A Handbook for RTI at Work.
To learn more about Mike’s work, visit AllThingsPLC (www.allthingsplc.info) and http://mattos.info, or follow @mikemattos65 on Twitter.
Austin Buffum, EdD, has more than forty-seven years of experience in public schools. His many roles include serving as former senior deputy superintendent of Capistrano Unified School District in California. He has presented in over five hundred school districts throughout the United States and around the world. He delivers trainings and presentations on the RTI at Work model. This tiered approach to RTI centers on PLC at Work concepts and strategies to ensure every student receives the time and support necessary to succeed. Austin also delivers workshops and presentations that provide the tools educators need to build and sustain PLCs.
Austin was named 2006 Curriculum and Instruction Administrator of