Workshops & Conferences

Consultant, Trainer, Conference Presenter
Dr. Fibkins provides innovative training to help secondary schools adjust to the growing academic and personal needs of their students:

• Use successful training and organizational restructuring models to improve the critical services needed by students to be successful
• Personal counseling and intervention, group counseling, health services with connections to community health and social agencies
• Mentoring, before and after-school programs, physical education programs with a strong wellness component, and peer counseling and leadership training for students
• Parent education training programs with emphasis on wellness, early intervention, and school-community resources available before trouble starts as well as ongoing training for teachers, administrators, and support staff on how to serve as helpers and advisors and successfully mix this new role with their other duties

Presentation Topics

• Developing a ‘Circle of Wellness’ student intervention program.

• Creating school-based teacher training centers lead by school staff.

• The need for secondary school student advisory programs.

• Training secondary school teachers as student advisors and helpers.

• Giving teachers, administrators, counselors, and support staff the helping skills they need to intervene with students, parents, and colleagues.

• Training classroom teachers to expand their historical academic role to include addressing the non-academic well being and personal problems of students that are interfering with the learning process.

• Training teachers how to hold effective one-on-one helping sessions with students.

• Training classroom teachers, counselors, administrators, and support staff to effectively deal with the behaviors of difficult students.

• Training administrators in how to overcome staff, parent, and community resistance to the organizational change process and school reform.

• Training administrators in how to hold effective, supportive, one-on-one staff evaluation sessions.

• Training administrators to implement a mentoring program for beginning, mid-career, and veteran teachers.

• Team building as a vehicle for improving teacher effectiveness.

• Improving the effectiveness of school counseling and student support-well being programs by using Dr. Fibkins ‘Restructuring Guidance Services Inventory.’

• Creating a parent training and support center in the schools.

• Dr. Fibkins ‘five-hour-a-day’ tobacco intervention program. An in-school intervention for students addicted and on the road to addiction.

• Dr. Fibkins 48-hour alcohol and drug abuse intervention program. A intervention support program to help student remain alcohol and drug free over the risky weekend time.

• Training students to be peer helpers, mentors, and leaders.

• Training parents to be peer helpers, mentors, and leaders.

• Training school support staff to be provide intervention for students.

• Implementing a before and after school student support program.

• Wellness programs such as developing a summer intervention program for at risk students.

• How to form effective school-community coalitions.

• How schools can handle suicide threats.

• Developing an effective group counseling program.

• Counseling for students experiencing emotional problems such as abuse, parent’s divorcing, loss related to the death of family member, school failure, school pressure, peer rejection, bullying.

• Training coaches, music and theater directors, counselors, academic teachers ,and club leaders to intervene and counsel ‘star’ students who encounter the pressure and notoriety that comes with ‘success.’

• Providing intervention and referrals for students who are abusing tobacco, alcohol and drugs.

• Providing intervention and referrals for students affected by obesity, anorexia, and other eating disorders.

• Intervention to help teachers, administrators, and student service staff avoid burnout.

• Training teachers, support staff, administrators, coaches, and student service staff in how to avoid sexual misconduct with students and to intervene when they observe a colleague crossing boundaries and heading toward sexual misconduct.

• Expanding the role of guidance counselors to include intervention, counseling, and referral for school staff.

• Creating school-community forums to examine and resolve pressing school-community problems.

Partial List of Presentations

• Phi Delta Kappa Author-Lecture Program
• National Middle School Association
• Syracuse University School of Education
• National Dropout Prevention Conference
• New York State Department of Education
• Fordham University-Catholic Charities of Long Island
• Suffolk County Department of Social Services
• National Conference on the Adolescent
• Portland Oregon Teachers’ Union
• Kean University Teacher Performance Center
• National Center for Chronic Disease and Prevention (CDC)
• New York United Teachers (NYSUT)
• Dolores Kohn Foundation
• American Federation of Teachers
• Ottawa Counselors Association
• New York Counselors Association
• American Medical Association
• UK Teacher Centers
• New World Foundation
• The Children’s Home Society of Seattle
• NYSUT Teacher Centers