Writer — Brett J Billings

Experiential educators more often concern themselves with the negative behavior of clients rather than the positive. This paper will introduce positive behavior supports as an evidence-based tool for educators to implement in their practice.

Mar 18
Mar 18 Risk Management Values Clarification

Brett Billings

Risk Management

A simple, but powerful, exercise adapted from NOL's two-day risk management training.

Mar 1
Mar 1 AMC submits testimony to SEC against Northern Pass

Brett Billings

Mountain Passages

While AMC staffers have until a scheduled March 15 deadline to submit final evidence to the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) against Northern Pass—the controversial 192-mile, high-voltage transmission project proposed to cut through the center of New Hampshire’s White Mountains—the hearing process may be delayed by a month or more.

Nov 28
Nov 28 Enhancing the metaphoric transfer of learning in wilderness expeditions

Brett Billings

Plymouth State University

This paper will examine Gass’s (1985) original recommendations for learning transfer in light of recent understandings in learning science in hopes of supporting or discrediting certain practices. Particular attention will be paid to metaphoric transfer and how educators can best facilitate metaphoric transfer from wilderness expeditions

Nov 23
Nov 23 Strength-based assessment of mood disorders in youth

Brett Billings

Plymouth State University

The first encounter between youth and clinicians is the clinical assessment oftentimes, and the illness ideology, while having moved the field forward for decades, has serious shortcomings: 1) It assumes only symptoms matter; 2) it can reduce and objectify youth through labels that don’t tell their whole story; and 3) these assessments expose youth and clinicians to disproportionately more negatives (Rashid, 2015).

Oct 24
Oct 24 Darin's brain on poverty

Brett Billings

Plymouth State University

The majority of students in the United States are in poverty (Suitts et al., 2015), and the implications for the nation’s public schools are immense.

Oct 22
Oct 22 High on Neuropsych: An Introduction to Neurotransmitters

Brett Billings

brettjbillings.com

A brief glimpse at dopamine, GABA, norepinephrine, and serotonin that was originally presented as a staff development mini-workshop after Dr. Ann Leonard Zabel presented at NHASP's Fall Conference in October 2016.

Oct 17
Oct 17 Staying on trail

Brett Billings

Plymouth State University

For Nate, the trails and forest are the numerous trails and trees he faces every day at school. Nate’s problem, more often than not, is seeing the forest for the trees and staying on trail.

Oct 10
Oct 10 Dewey's conditions and the principles of experiential education

Brett Billings

Plymouth State University

It is not enough for students in typical public schools to learn facts and figures: They need to function within the most powerful and complex democracy the world has ever known, and this means learning morals alongside facts.

Jul 1
Jul 1 NH and Boston Chapters lead effort to protect Rumney Rocks

Brett Billings

Mountain Passages

The AMC NH Chapter Executive Committee pledged $15,000 during its May meeting to aid the acquisition of 86 acres of privately owned land abutting the Rumney Rocks in the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF).

Sep 1
Sep 1 @amcnewhampshire’s Communications Committee Begins New Initiatives

Mar 18
Mar 18 Risk Management Values Clarification

Mar 1
Mar 1 AMC submits testimony to SEC against Northern Pass

Nov 28
Nov 28 Enhancing the metaphoric transfer of learning in wilderness expeditions

Nov 23
Nov 23 Strength-based assessment of mood disorders in youth

Oct 24
Oct 24 Darin's brain on poverty

Oct 22
Oct 22 High on Neuropsych: An Introduction to Neurotransmitters

Oct 17
Oct 17 Staying on trail

Oct 10
Oct 10 Dewey's conditions and the principles of experiential education

Jul 1
Jul 1 NH and Boston Chapters lead effort to protect Rumney Rocks

Jan 14
Jan 14 A dream play gets it in the endzone

Jan 13
Jan 13 Occupy the top of the stairs

Jan 12
Jan 12 Overgrown kids playing grownup games

Jan 13
Jan 13 Community advancement coordinator enjoys new role

Dec 23
Dec 23 Trojan boys overcome slow start against rival

Dec 23
Dec 23 Lady trojans remain unbeaten