In addition to direct services to students, Ripple Effects for Staff delivers three levels of professional development for school staff, designed to build their capacity to reinforce, sustain and expand student learning.

Primary prevention for staff promotes the social-emotional abilities that comprise effective leadership. Personal leadership, especially that of principals, but to some degree for all teachers, is the single factor that most affects school climate and students' behavioral outcomes. Not surprisingly, these are the same qualities that predict success in students. In Ripple Effects’ program, the training module, entitled "Strengthening your Leadership" is comprised of interactive tutorials, that have been accredited by LlU 's educational technology department and will form the "textbook" for an on-line course on Educational Leadership through Teacher's College at Columbia University.

Secondary prevention for staff might target first and second year teachers, who are least likely to have developed the skills needed for effective behavior management in the classroom. It may target staff whose social-cultural background is very unlike that of their students. The training modules most useful for these educators, as well as to their paraprofessionals would be in the second module, 'Managing Diverse Learners.” This  includes training in understanding cultural, social and economic differences, identifying learning problems, doing first-pass screening for attention disorder, and tailoring instruction to varying learning styles, abilities and disabilities, as well as strategies for preventing specific behavior problems, including bullying, fighting, and bias activity.

Tertiary prevention for staff consists of providing "just in time, as you need it" embedded training to help teachers respond to problems as they come up, including student behavior-problem, like insubordination, defiance, disruption, and attention-seeking behavior. It also provides a way for teachers to constructively respond to accusations of discriminatory behavior or expectations. Individualized tutoring in the context of a personal development plan provides teachers positive, differentiated, behavior-changing support in a private, non-judging environment.