introduction
The following is a brief summary of key areas in which Korem & Associates has been asked to assist educators. The overall theme is The Art of Treating People Right the First Time. Put another way: "How do I, as an education professional, quickly recognize and understand who is in front of me and meet their unique needs—from students to parents to education professionals? These areas include:
    —Hiring Personnel
    —Team Management
    —Instructing students
    —Students with at-risk and safety issues

Random Actor School Shooting/Bombing—Korem & Associates has trained more education and law enforcement professionals on thwarting this type of incident than any other organization in the world. The answers to the two most important questions professionals ask are provided:
     a) How to preemptively identify these students (while avoiding stereotyping, violating civil rights, etc.)
     b) How to guide these youths out of the "danger zone" before they commit an act of random terrorism.
           —For complete description for secondary school environment (PDF format), click here.
           —For complete description for college/university environment (PDF format), click here.

Korem & Associates trains thousands of educators in these areas, which are briefly summarized below. Fees for training vary from flat fees per person—including materials and testing for comprehension and retention—to flat fees per workshop. Train-the-Trainer programs are also available.

Hiring & team management:
Behavioral Interviewing for Administrators
In the early 1990s, Dan Korem developed the first comprehensive system for profiling people on the spot that didn’t use a written test. In his book, The Art of Profiling—Reading People Right the First Time, Korem presented the Korem Profiling System, which enables one in a few minutes of interaction to identify how a person is likely to:
    —Communicate 
    —Perform Tasks 
    —Make Decisions

While human resource managers regularly use behavioral profiling instruments such as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator to profile candidates when hiring personnel, a need emerged for a system that didn’t use a written test. As a result, professionals from most Fortune 500 companies have received training on the Korem Profiling System. Education administrators then requested training to improve hiring and team management skills. Additionally, administrators, faced with increasing attrition rates and a shrinking pool of education candidates, requested that they learn how to conduct a behavioral interview when hiring personnel—the standard interview method used by major companies, but never taught to administrative educators because of the cost (typically $1500 per person). Korem & Associates is presently the only company in the US that affordably makes this vital skill available to education professionals.
    Benefits
        —Reduce attrition rates (most experts estimate at least 10–15% a year).
        —Attract hard-to-get candidates in a shrinking labor pool.
        —Develop long-term career path for a candidate.
        —Improve team management skills.
        —Length of Training: 2 days
        —Participants: Administrators


classroom instruction & Behavioral Profiling
Imagine the following scenario: A corporate trainer must conduct two classes on management skills. One for auditors and another for marketing professionals. Additionally, the trainer decides to use the exact same approach and examples when instructing both groups of professionals. Do you think the instructor will be able to successfully hold the attention of each group and enhance each group’s comprehension and retention? The obvious answer is: No. Audit and marketing professionals are different folks with different needs and communication styles. Well, the same is true in our schools. Every class takes on its own unique personality. For example, some classes have a more conventional flavor (like a group of auditors), while others prefer to be a bit more freewheeling (like those in marketing). Yet, many teachers will instruct each class of students in the exact same manner.

Without effective behavioral profiling skills, teachers are unable to effectively read each class’s profile and custom tailor lessons appropriately. They must simply operate out of their intuition, which is typically less accurate than applying a verifiable skill. Additionally, nearly 40 million of the 64 million youths in America have one of the classic family at-risk factors, such as divorce, physical abuse, and so on. This social deterioration is driving the desire for more personal attention from teachers to teach me, not just the text. Which is why thousands of teachers have asked for this training.

In two days, a teacher can learn how to identify a student’s behavioral profile and immediately improve their classroom delivery, management, and uniquely connect with students based upon who they really are. Follow-up testing is also available to insure performance as well as follow-up training videos for continued reinforcement and improved performance.
    Benefits
        —Quickly assess each class’s unique group profile.
        —Accurately assess almost any student’s behavioral profile.
        —Learn to modify instruction to uniquely educate each class and/or student.
        —More effectively counsel students and parents.
        —Length of Training: 2 days
        —Participants: Teachers, principals, counselors, etc.

Missing Protector Strategy
In the mid-1980s, Dan Korem predicted the appearance of gangs in suburbs, small towns and affluent communities—an unprecedented trend in US history. Seven years of research resulted in his critically acclaimed text, Suburban Gangs—The Affluent Rebels, which has been used as curriculum at over 100 universities. Korem also identified what is believed to be the only strategy that actually stops gangs from forming—The Missing Protector Strategy (MPS). When applied to over 400 severely at-risk youths over a period of six years in a neighborhood over-run with gangs, not one youth joined a gang. The MPS is also the number one deterrent to teen suicide, a key factor for deterring chronic drug use, and most educators believe that the MPS strategy will also reduce teen pregnancy and significantly improve the class room performance of at-risk youths. For a full description of the MPS, please click here.
       Benefits: Deters most at-risk behavior for at-risk youths, including:
        —Gang recruitment
        —Suicide
        —Chronic drug use
        —Teen Pregnancy
        —Truancy
        —Poor classroom performance 

A WORD ABOUT BEHAVIORAL PROFILING
With the rise in new forms of crime, law enforcement agencies often attempt to predict who is most likely to commit a crime or who is currently engaged in criminal activity. Efforts to profile these individuals has at times been very successful. There have been some cases, however, in which people are solely identified based upon ethnicity, the car they drive, their license plate prefix, and so on. This is not behavioral profiling but stereotyping. And, some of these attempts have resulted in lawsuits. The Korem Profiling System only promotes true behavioral profiling and never stereotyping. Additionally, many "warning lists" have appeared that attempt to identify youths who might commit a random act of violence. Similarly, some of these lists may also prompt lawsuits and should only be referenced with extreme caution.

The behavioral profiling strategies used in the Korem Profiling System are sound and are regularly used by Fortune 500 professionals when hiring personnel and managing teams. Additionally, there are many well-accepted behavioral profiling instruments that are regularly used by major corporations and school districts when hiring personnel profile. Therefore, it is imperative that districts avoid stereotyping and not confuse stereotyping with behavioral profiling.

Related to behavioral profiling and safety issues, noted legal experts warn that school districts face exposure to law suits because their staffs are not properly trained. This has resulted in many cases in which students have been inappropriately suspended or expelled—in some cases, for simply writing a scary Halloween story at the direction of a teacher. When the Korem Profiling System has been applied in school districts, the following has been the result: 1) Over 20,000 educators and law enforcement officers have received training and not one lawsuit has been filed nor complaint from a parent, care-giver, or student. 2) Threatening situations have been thwarted without violation of civil rights.