Event Phone: 608-822-3276

Are you looking for effective strategies for supporting students while maintaining a calm and positive demeanor? Join us for Love and Logic® Training designed specifically for paraprofessionals! 

This year’s training with Paul Gasser is designed just for you—with a fresh focus on behavior and building strong relationships with students! Instead of multiple breakout sessions, you  will spend the day learning how to:

✨ Strengthen your connections with students
✨ Learn strategies to manage challenging behaviors with confidence
✨ Set firm but loving boundaries while staying calm
✨ Reduce power struggles and classroom disruptions

Paraprofessionals play a key role in student success, and this training will equip you with practical, easy-to-use tools to make your job easier and more rewarding.

Empower yourself, enrich your skills, and transform your professional practice.

Love and Logic is a classroom management and discipline approach designed to help educators create a positive learning environment while teaching students responsibility, self-regulation, and problem-solving skills. It was developed by Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay and is widely used in schools to manage behavior effectively.

Key Principles of Love and Logic

1. Shared Control – adults and students share control of decisions, fostering responsibility and self-regulation.
2. Shared Thinking & Decision-Making – Instead of imposing rules, students are encouraged to think critically about their choices and consequences.
3. Natural Consequences – Students experience the natural outcomes of their actions in a supportive environment.
4. Empathy Before Consequences – adults show empathy rather than anger when enforcing consequences, helping students learn from their mistakes rather than feeling punished.
5. Building Positive Relationships – Strong adult-student relationships create a safe and respectful environment, reducing behavioral issues.

Strategies in the Classroom

• Enforceable Statements: Instead of commands, adults phrase rules in a way that gives students choices (e.g., “I allow students to use class materials as long as they use them appropriately.”).
• Delaying Consequences: Instead of reacting emotionally, adults take time to think before giving a consequence, allowing for more thoughtful discipline.
• Setting Limits with Choices: Offering choices within limits helps students feel in control while still following expectations (e.g., “Would you rather complete your work now or during recess?”).
• Using Empathy, Not Anger: A calm, empathetic response to misbehavior helps students reflect on their choices (e.g., “That’s so sad. I see you chose to break a rule. How do you think we can fix this?”).

Benefits of Love and Logic in Schools

• Reduces power struggles and adult stress.
• Encourages students to take responsibility for their actions.
• Helps create a respectful, positive classroom climate.
• Improves student self-regulation and problem-solving skills.

Agenda

• 8:30 AM: Registration
• 9:00 AM: Welcome and Morning Session
• 11: 30 AM: Lunch
• 12:30 PM: Afternoon Session
• 2:45 PM: Closing
• 3:00 PM: Conference Completed