Please join us at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia for exceptional professional learning opportunities, renewed friendships, and collaboration with colleagues!
SCASP Spring Conference 2026
Creating Conditions for Student Success
March 12th-13th, 2026
South Carolina State Museum
301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
This exciting and informative experience is designed to increase your ability to manage interfering behaviors in schools and to apply a science of reading approach to the assessment and intervention of English Language Learners
You can also attend this conference virtually at the same cost as the
in-person rate
Discounted Hotel Room Rates are Available at Tru by Hilton Columbia Downtown by clicking here:
SC Assoc of School Psychologists Spring Conf
Registration is available for SCASP CEUs. You can also earn college credit through Winthrop University. Once that option is made available, the details will be posted here.
Conference Overview
Thursday, March 12th: Howie Knoff, Ph.D.
Behavioral Interventions for Disobedient, Disruptive, Defiant, and Disturbed Students
Effective school districts implement comprehensive multi-tiered systems for students demonstrating social, emotional, or behavioral challenges. This workshop discusses selected Tier 2/3 (strategic/intensive) interventions for students to address their school and classroom needs, connects these interventions to the “Seven High-Hit Reasons” for these challenges, and demonstrates how to use AI to facilitate the intervention implementation process.
Friday, March 13th: Andrew Shanock, Ph.D.
Collaborative Assessment and MTSS within a Science of Reading Framework: Identification and Intervention for EL and monolingual children
This full day workshop will address components of reading, including language development, and the issues in developing an efficient and effective MTSS process whereby data collection, communication, and appropriate interventions occur. Procedures on how to organize/perform a collaborative cross battery assessment between the SLP and school psychologist and how it can assist in data collection, collaborative interpretation, and intervention development will be discussed in detail. Participants will gain a strong working knowledge of and ability to differentiate between dyslexia, and DLD, using the Simple View of Reading framework. Throughout the workshop, there will be in-depth discussions on how to addressing the appropriate assessment methodology and interventions for English Language Learners.
