Current Assessments Compared to Assess & Progress

Current Assessments

Narrow Scope:
Useful only in the assessment phase.

Comprehensive Scope:
Useful in the assessment, intervention, and management phases.
Limited value to students:
It's done to them and not with them.

High value to students:
Actively involves students in their own safety, lowering risk today and tomorrow.
Standalone tool:
Dragged out only for emergencies causing fear and hesitation each time.

Embedded tool:
Built into everyday school life so it's always in use making response faster, easier, and with less stress.
Confusing for parents:
No clear way for parents to help which only raises confision, fear, and risk level.

Equips parents:
Parent guidance and materials allow them to play a greater role reducing confusion and anxiety.
Creates division:
Pits school leaders against students and families against schools.

Builds connection:
Students, families, and schools work together to resolve threats.
Rigid & Inflexible:
Stops after the assessment leaving everyone wondering what to do next.

Adaptive & flexible:
Provides rapid & consistent guidance until the student is no longer a threat.
Overreactive:
Conditions schools to see every student behavior as a threat.

Balanced:
Conditions schools to understand, not overreact to behaviors.
Broad approach:
Can harm or stigmatize innocent students and overwhelm unprepared staff.

Protects everyone:
Safeguards students from being wrongly labeled and shields staff from making painful mistakes.

What's the Secret to Assess & Progress?

After 30 years of witnessing extreme violence, frustration, failure, happiness, joy, forgiveness, redemption, and success in the lives of young people...we've learned that every student is in 1 of 4 CATEGORIES OF LIFE and that their happiness, success, failure, or willingness to hurt themselves and others is directly linked to their present category.

1. UNSAFE

2. STRUGGLING

3. SATISFACTORY

4. STRONG

Strong students don't use violence and unsafe students don't have to stay that way!

We'll show you how to figure out (assess) if a student is in the UNSAFE category and we'll give you the skills and materials to help them grow (progress) to a higher and safer category.

What assess & progress means to you

We know first hand that threat assessments can have an adverse effect on the person completing them. That's because the majority of the people doing them are not law enforcement and the current model can be intensely cold, hard, negative, and scary.

It's one of the reasons we created Assess & Progress--to shield and protect those doing threat assessments by changing the structure, purpose, and scope of threat assessments.

Assess & Progress is Growth Based so it keeps your focus positive, your thoughts proactive, your actions truly helpful, your fear reduced, and therefore your quality of life higher.

Assess & Progress is the only threat assessment model with built in mechanisms to protect you...

Why attend

Assess & Progress

Through classroom instruction, discussion, and practical application, participants will learn or receive the following:

Tools to rapidly identify students as UNSAFE, STRUGGLING, SATISFACTORY, and STRONG
Confidently make an Assess & Progress 'snapshot' assessment and implement other immediate life saving actions
Utilizing The Path to Violence model to determine how close a student is to using violence
Develop in students the capability to evaluate their current placement in the 4 Categories of Life by utilizing Assess & Progress Student Worksheets
Growth plans, methods, and techniques to help UNSAFE students progress to a higher category in the 4 Categories of Life
Assist parents in understanding and utilizing the Parent Guide and Assess & Progress Growth worksheets for their children
Prevent stigmatizing students and alienating parents by utilizing the Assess & Progress materials to identify, track, and measure mutually beneficial goals and outcomes as a team
Utilize included materials to determine thresholds and predetermined actions for students and parents should there be a rapid de-escalation in growth, behavior, or movement down the 4 Categories in Life
Effectively respond to teachers, parents, and the media on the reasons as well as progress after initiating an Assess & Progress Student Safety Assessment
Effectively blend Assess & Progress procedures into the school day, academic process, and disciplinary actions
And so much more

Praise for DON SHOMETTE

"I learned a lot from Don. I liked him immediately. He has a great way of explaining things to you so that you do not feel like you have been doing things the wrong way. The outcome has been that my school is safer. There also exists an even better positive climate! I didn’t think that was possible but I was wrong!"

Principal

New York

"GREAT training! Very engaging! Helps to confirm my importance in schools!"

Teacher

New York

"You had me captivated the entire time! Thank you for making a difference about a truly vital and important issue in our culture today!"

School Psychologist

New York

"Thank you for your time! Your description and insights on the importance of relationship and connections was so relevant and helpful!"

Counselor

New York

"I could listen to you all day"!

Teacher

Connecticut

"Excellent presentation! I really enjoyed your presentation style and positive message. You make violence prevention a part of what we already do--but better! Thank you!"

Teacher

New York

Registration Fee

Have any questions? Call 540-577-7200

$495 per person*

* Price drops signficantly for organizations that send more than 3. See Discount Pricing Tab for details.

Fee includes the following:

14 hours of instruction.

Electronic copies of all routines and daily plans with individual reprint rights.

Course materials and continued support from Don Shomette.

Certificate and credit hours (as permitted by your state).

Register 3 or more and receive 1 free seat!

Schools or police departments that register and pay for 3 or more participants, will receive 1 free seat.

Seats can be shared between schools and police departments.

$14,750 for up to 50 participants!

Prepare your entire school district, counselors, and principals to use Assess & Progress!

This fee includes expenses, materials, and classroom instruction.

Host an event and receive 3 free seats!

Hosting a class is super easy! All you have to do is to provide a classroom and help advertise via your established networks. We'll do the rest. We create the flyer, registration page, process registrations, and handle all payments.

There's no fee to host an event.

Minimum class size is 15 and max is whatever the room can comfortably hold.

Call 540-577-7200 or email info@donshomette.com to get the ball rolling!

Additional Questions?

Please call 540-577-7200 or email info@donshomette.com and let us know how we can help!

ASSESS & PROGRESS:

New. Better. enhanced.

NO SKILL IS MORE IMPORTANT than being able to quickly and accurately determine if a student who has made a threat truly poses a threat to himself and others.

Assess & Progress gives you the skills, materials, and confidence to assess, intervene, and manage a dangerous student and to guide their school community to respond quickly, safely, and appropriately to shut down that threat.

You may be the last person who has a chance to prevent a school shooting...but only if you're ready.

Use Assess & Progress as stand alone or to enhance your current procedures!

Course Details

Length: 2-days

Credit Hours: 14

Who Should Attend:

- Superintendents

- Principals

- Deans of Students

- Directors of Safety

- Counselors/Social Workers

- SROs/SRO Supervisors

- Safety Team Leader/Members

- Teachers

- Future School Leaders!

Questions or to request a district professional development proposal call 540-577-7200

Current Assessments Compared to Assess & Progress

Current Assessments

What's the Secret to Assess & Progress?

1. UNSAFE

2. STRUGGLING

3. SATISFACTORY

4. STRONG

Strong students don't use violence and unsafe students don't have to stay that way!

We'll show you how to figure out (assess) if a student is in the UNSAFE category and we'll give you the skills and materials to help them grow (progress) to a higher and safer category.

What assess & progress means to you

3 Options that will Change Your School

Why attend

Assess & Progress

Through classroom instruction, discussion, and practical application, participants will learn or receive the following:

Tools to rapidly identify students as UNSAFE, STRUGGLING, SATISFACTORY, and STRONG

Confidently make an Assess & Progress 'snapshot' assessment and implement other immediate life saving actions

Utilizing The Path to Violence model to determine how close a student is to using violence

Develop in students the capability to evaluate their current placement in the 4 Categories of Life by utilizing Assess & Progress Student Worksheets

Growth plans, methods, and techniques to help UNSAFE students progress to a higher category in the 4 Categories of Life

Assist parents in understanding and utilizing the Parent Guide and Assess & Progress Growth worksheets for their children

Prevent stigmatizing students and alienating parents by utilizing the Assess & Progress materials to identify, track, and measure mutually beneficial goals and outcomes as a team

Utilize included materials to determine thresholds and predetermined actions for students and parents should there be a rapid de-escalation in growth, behavior, or movement down the 4 Categories in Life

Effectively respond to teachers, parents, and the media on the reasons as well as progress after initiating an Assess & Progress Student Safety Assessment

Effectively blend Assess & Progress procedures into the school day, academic process, and disciplinary actions

And so much more

Praise for DON SHOMETTE

Principal

Teacher

School Psychologist

Counselor

Teacher

Teacher

HOST a seminar and get 3 FREE SEATS...

All you have to do is provide a training space and help advertise via your established networks and we'll do the rest.

Call or text 540-577-7200 to get started!

Registration Fee

Have any questions? Call 540-577-7200

$495 per person*

Register 3 or more and receive 1 free seat!

$14,750 for up to 50 participants!

Host an event and receive 3 free seats!

Additional Questions?

Address

Phone and text

email

Questions or to request a district professional development
proposal call 540-577-7200

All you have to do is provide a training space and help advertise via
your established networks and we'll do the rest.