Good morning everyone! I’m starting to look at creating my first CEU presentation but I wanted to see what the community felt regarding this topic. When we are working with a variety of clients, and we have a brand new staff start with that client, a lot of the times I’ve seen or have heard the BCBA say, “Just pair with the client.” This can be very vague for the staff and not give them the specifics of how to pair with a client. What I would like to do is create a presentation on how we can teach staff to pair with clients, when to pair depending on the environment, and different pairing strategies we can teach.

I’m looking to branch out a bit and see if there are any gaps in services that I might be able to help fill - whether it’s something missing but needed to support our consumers, or something to support our clinicians (BCBAs, BCaBAs, behavior techs, etc). I have years of experience in public schools and am also able to provide fieldwork supervision. What are some areas of need (for consumers and/or practitioners) that you’ve noticed, or services you would like to see?

It's no secret I give out a LOT of CEUs. In this community, there are over 60 on-demand CEUs ALONE. But, it never fails that 1 week before my recert, I am scrambling to find my certificates and remember all my events, inevitably having to retake a bunch to get my 32 CEUs for the year. So I built CEU Buddy! CEU Buddy is one place to store your - CEU certificates and accompanying data (like type of event, type of CEU, etc) - Presentation Slides - Presentation Notes So they DON'T get lost in the abyss the night before recert. BUT I need your help! I have 10 more beta spots open (40 people already signed up) who are testing the software and helping me improve it. I would LOVE if you could be one of those people! Here is a link to the beta page. No credit card is needed to sign up, and you get 6 months of free access! https://www.ceubuddy.io/pricing

We are getting close to American Thanksgiving, which means most of us are getting some time off! For me, I have - 25+ open tabs - Way to many open To Dos in my notebook - Ipad playing pump up music - 2 Polo shirts that I have yet to put in the laundry - Plenty of coffee and empty mugs Let's finish off strong!

Over the last 10 years it seems the number of BCBA’s in the school systems has greatly increased, however from my experience most of that expansion is for “behavior reduction”. To me it feels like there is still marked room to see the science accomplish real meaningful change for our young ones! What do you see as the greatest opportunities within the school systems to be able to increase impact of behavior analysis? Do you have any current directions to make this happen or are there any barriers you are trying to overcome before putting it in to action? I am excited to hear everyone’s thoughts and visions! My Teams current direction here: 1. we have a 5 year plan to implement our brief assessment/skill building learning center model through “resource teachers” in SPED, empowering active skill building through a system designed for 1-2 hours per week.