DRAGEN Academy
Most training changes nothing.
Looking for the software itself? Every DRAGENone tool, and what it does →
People attend, nod, and go back to doing exactly what they did before. Training that actually transfers looks different: you practice the skill, someone watches, you get feedback, and you do it again until you can demonstrate it.
Free lessons
Learn it by hand first. Buy nothing.
27 complete lessons and four sheets to print, from a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with ten years in practice. Each lesson: what it is, why it matters, how to do it yourself today, a worked example with made-up names, a question with the answer underneath, and a source. No login, no email address, no CEUs. Every lesson is also in Spanish.
Start today: print the 4-term data sheet and fill in one line the next time a behavior happens.
For families
The first things a parent needs, in plain words.
For families today: a free estimate of the journey to Reflection Island →
How to take 4-term contingency data
Write down what happens before and after a behavior so a team can use it.
How to tell the four functions of behavior apart
Attention, tangible, escape, automatic, and four questions that tell them apart.
How to check your data with interobserver agreement
Interobserver agreement: three formulas, a live calculator, and a check sheet to print.
How to use reinforcement at home, without bribing
The difference is when the deal is made. Seven steps and a plan to print.
How to teach a skill one step at a time
Task analysis and chaining: steps a stranger could score, a baseline, forward, backward or total task, and a step sheet you build and print.
How to help without doing it for them
Prompting and prompt fading: the ladder from full help to none, three ways to fade it, and a plan to print.
How to use a first-then board and a picture schedule
Six steps, the mistakes that stop a board working, and a board and schedule you make with your own words and print.
How to toilet train a child who is too comfortable in diapers
A short video, eight steps, the poop step, a program for RBTs and BCBAs, and a free log to print.
How to make a wandering safety plan
Five steps for a child who slips out or bolts, what to do first if they go missing, and a one-page plan you fill in and print for every adult.
How to find respite and a waiver
Five steps to get a break: find your state's doors, get on every list, get each answer in writing, appeal the first no, and a tracker to print.
How to check your child's graph at the team meeting
Three questions and one simple stability check, a made-up worked example, and a sheet that does the math for you and prints.
How to help a child fall asleep
The faded bedtime: start at the time your child really falls asleep, then move earlier in small steps. A made-up worked example, a bedtime finder and a sleep log to print.
How to teach a child to ask instead
Functional communication training: an ask that gets what the problem behavior was getting, six steps, ask cards and a one-page plan to print.
How to set up a token board that works
Seven steps, how many spaces to start with, how to stretch it, and a board you word, tap or print.
How to read a behavior graph in sixty seconds
Level, trend, bounce, and the vertical line.
How to walk into an IEP meeting ready
What to ask for before, what to bring, your three asks, and the one-page sheet.
Five questions for the progress report meeting
A one-page printable to bring to the table.
En español
Todas las lecciones, completas en español, con sus hojas gratis.
Cómo tomar datos de la contingencia de 4 términos
OM, ED, conducta, consecuencia: ocho pasos, un ejemplo y una hoja para imprimir.
Cómo distinguir las cuatro funciones de la conducta
Atención, una cosa, librarse de algo o la sensación misma, y cuatro preguntas para saberlo.
Cómo usar el reforzamiento en casa, sin sobornar
La diferencia está en cuándo se hace el trato. Siete pasos y un plan de una página.
Cómo usar un tablero primero y después
Seis pasos, y cómo convertirlo en un horario con imágenes.
Cómo enseñar a usar el baño a un niño muy cómodo con el pañal
Un video corto, ocho pasos, el paso de la popó y un registro gratis para imprimir.
Cómo hacer un plan de seguridad para cuando su hijo se escapa
Cinco pasos para un niño que se sale o sale corriendo, qué hacer primero si desaparece, y un plan de una página que usted llena e imprime para cada adulto.
Cómo encontrar respiro y una exención (waiver)
Cinco pasos para conseguir un descanso: encuentre las puertas de su estado, anótese en cada lista, pida cada respuesta por escrito, apele el primer no, y un registro para imprimir.
Cómo revisar la gráfica de su hijo en la reunión del equipo
Tres preguntas y una revisión sencilla de estabilidad, un ejemplo inventado, y una hoja que hace la cuenta por usted e imprime.
Cómo armar un tablero de fichas que funcione
Siete pasos, cuántos espacios usar y cómo estirarlo poco a poco.
Cómo enseñarle a un niño a pedir, en lugar de la conducta
El entrenamiento en comunicación funcional en seis pasos, con tarjetas para pedir.
Cómo llegar preparado a una reunión del IEP
Ocho pasos, el aviso previo por escrito, su derecho a un intérprete y una hoja de una página.
Cómo leer una gráfica de conducta en sesenta segundos
Nivel, tendencia, rebote y la línea vertical, con una lista para imprimir.
Cómo lograr que una habilidad funcione en todas partes
Seis pasos en vez de “entrenar y esperar”, y una hoja de sondeos.
Cómo averiguar qué quiere de verdad un niño
La evaluación MSWO en siete pasos, el cálculo a mano y una hoja para imprimir.
Cómo ayudar sin hacerlo por ellos
Las ayudas, de la más completa a ninguna, tres formas de retirarlas y un plan para imprimir.
Cómo enseñar una habilidad paso a paso
Análisis de tareas y encadenamiento: hacia adelante, hacia atrás o tarea completa.
Cómo contar una conducta para que el número diga la verdad
Frecuencia, duración, latencia e intervalos, en cuatro preguntas.
Cómo enseñarle a cualquiera una habilidad en cuatro pasos
Instrucción, modelo, práctica y retroalimentación, con una lista de fidelidad.
Cómo revisar sus datos con el acuerdo entre observadores
Las tres fórmulas que más va a usar, un ejemplo y una hoja de revisión.
Cómo escribir una meta que un extraño pueda medir
Condición, conducta, criterio, fecha y línea base, y la prueba del extraño.
Cómo leer, y dibujar, una gráfica de línea de ABA
Nivel, tendencia, variabilidad, el cambio en la línea y seis reglas para dibujarla.
Supervisión de RBT: el cinco por ciento, calculado
Qué horas cuentan, el 5%, la regla de los dos contactos y un registro mensual.
Cómo revisar usted mismo a su proveedor de ABA, a mano
Diez preguntas, fuentes enlazadas y una hoja imprimible para anotar pruebas y preguntas por aclarar.
Cómo revisar su facturación de ABA antes que un auditor
Las seis comparaciones entre reclamos, notas y autorizaciones, en una hoja de cálculo.
Revise su propia facturación de ABA antes que un auditor
Cinco revisiones aritméticas, sesión por sesión, y una lista de una página.
Cómo escribir una rúbrica que se califique sola
Criterios que se pueden señalar, descriptores que describen, y una plantilla.
For technicians and the people who train them
Training that transfers.
How to teach anyone a skill in four steps
Instruction, model, rehearse, feedback, to a standard you wrote first. With a fidelity checklist.
RBT supervision: the five percent, worked out
What counts as a service hour, how to work out five percent, the two-contact rule, and a monthly log.
How to find out what a child will work for
The MSWO preference assessment: seven steps, a by-hand score, a recorder for your phone, and a data sheet to print.
How to count a behavior so the number tells the truth
Frequency, rate, duration, latency and interval recording in four questions, a live demo of how each interval method misses, and a card to print.
How to make a skill work everywhere, not just in session
Generalization and maintenance: six steps instead of “train and hope,” and a plan and probe sheet to print.
The Four Steps Card
Tell, show, try, feedback, on one page to print.
For BCBAs and clinic owners
The checks an auditor runs, done by hand first.
How to check your own ABA provider, by hand
Ten questions, linked sources, and a printable worksheet to record evidence and questions for clarification.
How to check your ABA billing before an auditor does
The six comparisons between claim lines, notes and authorizations, in a spreadsheet.
Check your own ABA billing by hand, in twenty minutes
Units against minutes, overlapping sessions, credentials on the date, authorization windows.
How to write a goal a stranger could measure
Condition, behavior, criterion, date, baseline, and the stranger test.
How to read, and draw, an ABA line graph
Why the y-axis starts at zero, what the phase line means, and why points never connect across it.
For teachers and coaches
Grading two people agree on, and counting before you change anything.
Write a rubric that grades itself
Levels you can point to in the work, so two teachers give the same score.
The Practice Plan Card
Five timed blocks, one point per athlete, and a tick column for what actually happened.
The 4-Term Data Sheet
Before, behavior, after, and the job it is doing. One page to print.
Method
The same method used with clients.
Behavioral skills training is four steps — explain it, show it, have them try it, tell them how it went — repeated until the person can do the thing. It is not complicated and it is very hard to fake, which is exactly why it works and why most professional development avoids it.
Sessions are built around a specific competency rather than a topic. The measure of success is whether someone can now do something they could not do that morning.
Try it: a supervisor explained a new data sheet, showed a video of it being filled in, and emailed the checklist. Which steps are missing? Show the answer, and why
Try and feedback. The video is the show step, so two of the four happened. Nobody filled in the sheet while someone watched, so nobody knows yet whether they can. Ten minutes of “you do one while I watch, then I tell you one thing to change” is the difference between a technician who can describe the sheet and one who can use it.
Programs
What is open, and what is not.
Workshops, live and virtual
Skill-building sessions delivered to a team or a group. Scheduled directly — there is no public calendar yet. Topics span assessment, intervention design, supervision, staff performance, and behavioral systems in schools.
Self-paced lessons
Complete lessons in plain words, each with a made-up worked example. Four sheets to print. No login, no email, no CEUs.
Continuing education
Offering continuing education units toward certification requires a separate authorization that DRAGEN has not completed. Until it has, none of this training carries CEUs and none of it is described as if it does.
Cohort programs
Small-group programs with a set curriculum running over several weeks. An intention, not a schedule.
Audience
Who this is built for.
Behavior analysts
Certified practitioners and those working toward certification, including supervision structure and ethical practice.
Behavior technicians
The people delivering intervention daily, who are most often trained once and then left to it.
School and organization leaders
Administrators and clinical directors responsible for systems that other people have to run.
Want training for your team?
Describe the group, the setting, and the skill that is missing. That is enough to scope a session.