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Author Lisa Navarra is currently a district-level and private consultant, Author, Behavior Specialist and parent. With over 25 years in the field of education, she has taught and consulted with students from preschool - high school as well as taught in higher education. Through her company Child Behavior Consulting, LLC, she provides educational workshops and presentations locally and nationally as well as facilitating workshops and professional development to faculty, staff and parents. Her private practice includes working individually with children and their parents in how to manage challenging behaviors as they relate to academics, behavior and social-emotional learning. She has a permanent teaching certifications in Special Education for students birth-21, General Education K-6, Master's in Special Education and a certificate in School District Administration.

Lisa Navarra has received a proclamation from former NYS Senator Caesar Trunzo for my "foresight and dedication" in the recognition of one of her several funded grants to benefit the lives of children within the school system.

Lisa Navarra began her career as a teacher of students who were classified Emotionally Disturbed and later taught students with mixed disabilities. Following these classroom experiences, she became the school district's behavior specialist where she wrote FBA's and BIP's and facilitated team meetings for grades K-12. She is also the district trainer in how to de-escalate behavior through CPI. The position was excessed and she was put back into the classroom after nearly 10 years. It was then that she realized her struggling learners needed to learn "how to learn" to be able to acquire, retain and apply what was being taught to them. With this experience and passion for teaching struggling learners, she developed research-driven, evidence-based learning tools, children's books, children's music and other resources to support student learning and teaching methods. Therefore, she trains and practices the paradigm shift of teaching "how to learn" while teaching " what to learn" which is often taught in isolation.

Child Behavior Consulting provides the tools and knowledge necessary to promote goal-oriented behaviors and positive decision-making skills in children. We educate how to manage and overcome challenges related to behavior, academic learning and social and emotional development. CBC specializes in ADHD and educates parents, children and organizations working with all children. Our focus is to teach self-regulation and develop executive functioning skills that impact a child’s behavioral, academic and/or social and emotional development in school and at home. CBC offers quality behavioral services to children who have or are challenged by a strong spirit, Executive Functioning Deficit, ADHD, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, learning disabilities, motivation, ASD, anger management and social skills. Child Behavior Consulting provides interactive training’s, workshops and presentations to large and small audiences. CBC also works privately with children and their parents. The participants gain a deeper understanding of why a behavior is being presented and learn the most effective interventions and strategies in how to address the areas of concern using positive behavior supports. Whether it be of a school, organization or working directly with children and parents, individual needs are assessed and action plans are developed. CBC trains and educates parents and professionals on how to diffuse and address individuals who are challenged behaviorally in the school, home, society and workplace. To promote the development of goal-oriented behavior and self-regulation, CBC has developed (4) visual and verbal prompting frameworks. Tools Inspiring Action!™ In Preschool, In The Classroom, At Home and For Transportation. To further reinforce these cognitive and social and emotional skills, CBC has produced and published Tools Inspiring Action!™ Through Music and has published children’s books. All of which are available to parents and service providers. Training in how to effectively implement each framework is available to children, parents/caregivers and service providers.