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Behavior Breakthrough: A Trauma-Informed, Neurodevelopmental Approach to Behavior
Five Ives is hosting an online course backed by credit (4.5 credits) from University of Pennsylvania, and you are invited!
This is not your average behavior course. No dense theory without application. No lectures that leave you guessing. Just brain-based, practical strategies that support your students and your sustainability.
- Credits: 4.5 through the University of Pennsylvania
- Cost: $1,950 (paid through Five Ives—we take care of sending payment to Penn)
- Dates: Fall semester course begins September 15.
- Modality: Online + 3 live sessions
- Format: Self-paced with videos, templates, and three live coaching sessions
- Course Description: This online course helps school-age educators understand and respond to student behavior through a trauma-aware, nervous system-informed lens—while also sustaining their own well-being. Participants will explore what drives challenging behaviors, how to support regulation in real time, and how to create safe, responsive learning environments without burning out. Grounded in the Five Ives and Five Needs frameworks, the course blends brain-based strategies with practical tools for de-escalation, connection, and classroom management. Each module includes short training videos, ready-to-use resources, and reflection prompts that link student support with educator self-awareness. Topics include co-regulation, behavior decoding, environmental impacts, and sustainable educator care using the AWARE model.
Ready to sign up for the next semester? Fill out the form below and we will email the registration information!
Are you an educational leader looking to share with your staff?
Are you seeing an increase in challenging behavior? Struggling to know how to help students without losing your mind?
You are not alone. Programs across the country (world?!) are struggling.
It isn't easy to support a classroom full of children when there is one child hanging off the curtain rod, one launching from a chair onto other students, and another clinging onto your leg all day long. It is exhausting.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
With the right behavior supports, coaching, and real-world strategies, your staff can feel confident, capable, and equipped to handle behaviors without frustration or burnout.
That’s where Behavior Breakthrough comes in.
Research-Backed Interventions:
Neuroscience and Traumatology
When you work with us, expect more than buzzwords and feel-good phrases that don't move the needle.
Our interventions are backed by science and they really work. We give you practical and simple steps to make an impact right away.
In bite-sized content, we equip you with tools that are game-changing (and often life-changing--it was for us!).
Behavior Breakthrough is a behavior support system designed to equip educators with practical strategies, expert coaching, and real-time solutions for managing challenging behaviors.
Game-Changing Training and Coaching Sessions
Educators love learning with us—because our strategies actually work. And you’ll love the results: less time spent managing challenging behaviors and a more fulfilling career.
Behavior Breakthrough: What's Inside?
Five Ives exists to help you, and we want to show you how Behavior Breakthrough does just that. Here is what's inside the course.
Behavior Breakthrough Training Curriculum
All Behavior Breakthrough students receive access to eight self-paced online training modules that address challenging behavior in a trauma-sensitive way.
In addition to the video content, you receive targeted support through implementation support tools that help you take action right away.
Each lesson also comes with a quick reference guide, making it easier for supervisors to revisit the content with classroom teachers and aides who need behavior supports.
The topics include:
- Why Kids Act Out: The Five Ives
- The Five Needs that Drive Behavior
- Emotional Regulation: Helping Kids Manage Big Feelings
- Behavior-Supportive Classroom Space Design
- Communication That Disarms: Handling Defiance & Noncompliance
- Stopping Dangerous Behaviors and Addressing Aggression
- Teacher & Staff Well-Being: Preventing Burnout in High-Need Classrooms
Coaching Sessions
Take your behavior support strategies to the next level with our coaching sessions designed to provide targeted, real-world solutions to your most pressing behavior challenges.
You will receive:
Personalized Support: Submit your toughest behavior scenarios, and our experts will provide practical, research-backed guidance tailored to your needs.
Targeted Solutions: Take the theory into the practical, with an opportunity to talk with our trauma care experts about challenges, concerns, questions, and hiccups as you implement the curriculum.
Community Support: Collaborative Learning
The Behavior Breakthrough course comes with an exclusive private online community where you can connect, ask questions, and get real-time support.
Exclusive Private Online Community: Gain direct access to our experts and fellow educators in a dedicated online space, where you can ask questions, share challenges, and receive ongoing support between live sessions.
Real-Time Expert Insights: Get faster responses and deeper discussions on behavior challenges—so you’re never left wondering what to do next.
A Support Network That Grows With You: Connect with like-minded professionals, share experiences, and build a powerful support system to help you navigate even the toughest behavior challenges.
Powerful, Game-Changing Care in Simple, Easy Steps
Our goal is to equip you with the tools and strategies to transform your program from reactive to resilient—moving beyond survival mode into a space where staff feel supported, children thrive, and peace becomes the norm. With a focus on practical, trauma-sensitive solutions, we help you build sustainable systems that reduce stress, improve job satisfaction, and create a healthier environment for everyone. Hear from some of our former trainees who have experienced this transformation firsthand:
"Brilliant. I just don’t see this being taught anywhere."
"I appreciated the content of this training tremendously. It really got me thinking about things in a different way."
"This training is so thought-provoking! Thank you for offering it."
"This was so valuable! Looking forward to next month!"
BEHAVIOR BREAKTHROUGH
$1,950 for 4.5 graduate credit hours from University of Pennsylvania
- Practical strategies, tools, and resources for getting your program out of survival mode and into a place of healing and calm
- Implementation support guides that give space for digesting and processing the material
- Ongoing access to experts throughout programming
Still thinking?
That's okay. In crisis mode, it can be hard to make big decisions.
But picture what life will be like next year if you don't make a change, if things stay the way they are.
Children carrying the unimaginable weight of trauma will still come in. Staff will still be walking into difficult situations every day. You will still have staffing problems. And the mental health crisis isn't going away anytime soon, so hoping things get better isn't going to work.
You need a solution that can meet you in the crisis and not be just one more thing. And you need experts who get it. That's us.
Don't just take our word for it--hear from a client who can't stop raving about working with Five Ives:
