DRAGEN Academy
Most training changes nothing.
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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.
Twelve 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.
For families
The first things a parent needs, in plain words.
How to take ABC 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 use reinforcement at home, without bribing
The difference is when the deal is made. Seven steps and a plan to 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.
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.
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 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 ABC 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 and a sheet 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.