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Social-Emotional Learning Professional Learning
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Our On-Site Professional Development for Social-Emotional Learning
Create a supportive school community that meets every student’s learning needs academically, socially, and emotionally. Our experts will equip you with a customized toolkit of strategies for navigating competing priorities and building meaningful learning experiences across grade levels and subject areas.
Where are you on your professional learning journey?
Your Goal
Building Your Skills
One‑Day Services
Supporting Teacher Efficacy Through Self-Care and Wellness
Recent research shows that 93 percent of teachers report high levels of job-related stress. Not only is this a concern for our educators, but it’s a serious problem for our students as well. Students with stressed-out teachers have more behavior issues, and those students have lower overall achievement. This workshop explores easy-to-implement wellness hacks that will positively impact both the adults and the students in your building or district.
- Review the four seasons of a typical school year and how to help yourself and your staff members thrive through each phase.
- Explore multiple self-care/wellness hacks that are easy to implement at both the personal and professional level and correlate to the phases of the school year.
- Discover new ways to motivate and inspire your staff so they can lead by example for their students.
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Best Practices in Wellness for Learners
Educating the “Whole” learner is essential to fostering student learning and wellness, through both in-person and virtual instruction. Students come to educators with a multitude of social and emotional needs, and schools must have a support system in place that provides learners with the social and emotional skills necessary to achieve their highest potential. This workshop provides essential best practices for establishing, fostering, and monitoring an effective social and emotional support system, schoolwide.
- Learn how to establish and foster a schoolwide system that supports social and emotional learning, through both traditional instruction and e-learning.
- Explore a menu of best practices for embedding social and emotional learning in every environment, including the virtual classroom.
- Develop a practitioner’s toolkit for effective schoolwide implementation and monitoring of social and emotional learning.
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Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms: Twelve Brain-based Principles to Avoid Burnout, Increase Optimism, and Support Physical Well-Being
Many teachers have long struggled with stress and burnout, even before the challenges of COVID-19. A 2018 study found that 40 to 50 percent of those who become educators decide to depart the profession within the first five years. So, what support can you find to maintain the fire and passion that drew you to the classroom in the first place? Education expert Marcia L. Tate offers strategies that will empower you to be your own best source of strength. In this light-hearted and life-changing workshop, you will learn how to restore your passion for teaching and explore 12 specific ways to improve and maintain your health and improve your quality of life. Come ready to be inspired and leave with your own specific action plan for sparking positive personal and professional change.
- Identify what causes teacher burnout.
- Learn how to restore your passion for the profession.
- Determine how to establish and maintain close personal relationships with others.
- Connect the 12 principles for well-being back to your daily classroom practice.
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Demystifying MTSS: A School and District Framework for Meeting Students' Academic and Social-Emotional Needs
Learn how to simplify the approach and process for building an effective and coherent multitiered system of supports (MTSS). Teams will engage in learning the fundamental components of MTSS that can be applied in their own schools and districts using tools and strategies provided in this workshop. Teams will be able to initiate or refine their MTSS journey with clearly defined actions and next steps.
- Identify key MTSS foundation components.
- Know the “why” of MTSS and the importance of communicating your “why.”
- Understand the foundational role of collaborative leadership and teams needed to support MTSS.
- Discover how to align systems and resources to build a successful MTSS.
Your Goal
Deepening Your Skills
Two‑to‑Four‑Day Services
Maximizing Student Engagement
Discover how to use Questing—a contemporary pedagogy tailored to a student’s interests, needs, and abilities—to develop critical thinking, collaboration, and self-direction. Educators can engross students in emotionally gripping and compelling learning experiences, engage them with actionable targets and goals, and promote collaboration in online and physical spaces.
- Form learning partnerships with students that lead to co-teaching and co-learning, where voices and choices matter.
- Explore the three main design types—(1) inquiry, (2) network, and (3) game—through which students can Quest.
- Investigate the design decisions involved in identifying a Quest, determining checkpoints, and helping students reflect on their Quest.
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Two-for-One Teaching: Integrate Social-Emotional Learning into Academic Instruction
Learn to use the academic tasks students already do as opportunities for them to explore and enact their values.
- Understand how to develop a classroom culture of willingness and empowerment.
- Practice using protocols that incorporate values work into academic units.
- Explore some of the psychology of how to help students discover and do what matters to them.
- Learn how to structure units to incorporate social-emotional learning (SEL) into every stage of learning.
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Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Developing Strengths in All Students
The need for belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity are core principles of social and emotional learning.
- Study the hazards facing youth at risk: relational trauma, failure as futility, powerlessness, and loss of purpose.
- Explore this unique relational, strength-based approach for reclaiming discouraged or alienated youth.
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Cultivating a Positive School Community Through the Foundational Practice of Mindfulness
Build compassionate classrooms and mindful schools that prioritize and balance both learning and well-being.
- Explore the theory behind mindful and compassionate education practice, including the interrelated nature of physiology, cognition, emotions, and mindfulness for students.
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Supporting the Whole Child Through Reflective School Leadership
By reenergizing your commitment to ongoing leadership development and engaging both/and rather than either/or thinking for numerous decisions, we can transform schools so students flourish academically while also meeting their social and emotional learning needs.
- Study the 12 lenses of school leadership—core educational leadership responsibilities that are essential for leading whole-child schools.
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Social-Emotional Learning: Supporting Growth in Elementary School Students and Staff
The social and emotional well-being of students and staff is fundamental to school success. You have the power to create a positive, supportive environment that values meaningful, effective social-emotional learning. When you partner with one of our experts you and your staff will learn how to work from a deeper understanding of SEL—its importance, how it relates to behavior and child development, and how it positively impacts teacher efficacy. You will also delve into the PLC process as a way to build a healthy school climate, safe and effective classroom environments, and multilayered systems of responding to school and student needs.
- Learn how to respond to student behavior in a way that supports SEL development.
- Gain strategies for building responsive relationships and supports for emotional regulation.
- Access 10 easy-to-implement instructional SEL practices that can be integrated into academic learning.
- Explore, design, and implement year-long and daily lesson tools for planning and integrating SEL.
- Discover ways to create and use developmentally appropriate assessments to monitor student learning and inform teaching practices around SEL.
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Trauma-Sensitive Classroom Seminar
In this face-to-face session you will explore how trauma can impact students as well as educators, the importance of building a foundation on relationships and routines, and practical strategies and techniques to help make classrooms more trauma-sensitive. Specific outcomes of this two-day session include:
- Impacts of trauma on educators and an introduction to teacher self-care
- Factors influencing student resilience
- The importance of building foundational relationships with students
- An understanding of essential factors needed in schools and classrooms when students are experiencing trauma
- Teaching strategies for trauma-sensitive classrooms
- Developing a plan for trauma-sensitive instruction
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Your Goal
Sustaining Your Skills
Multi‑Day Services
Embedded Coaching
Reach your social and emotional learning goals with targeted support from our coaches. Our on-site experts will provide specific direction based on your school or district’s unique challenges, empowering every educator to create a collaborative environment where students feel engaged and motivated. Help your school achieve proficiency and efficacy for all students using evidence-based pedagogy and collaboration. In addition to reexamining their current practices, participants will explore the nature of assessment as a tool to support, learn how to involve the student in the feedback process, and understand how to promote reflective thought and evidence-based actions among learners.
Customized Services
Develop a custom learning plan designed to meet your distinct needs. This opportunity ensures that teams and individuals get the support they need through a tailor-made learning experience, with hands-on activities and practical strategies to develop learners’ emotional and social skills as thoroughly as their academic skills.
The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
Inspired by research in social-emotional learning (SEL) and trauma-informed wellness, this multisession workshop will help you discover ways of building school relationships based on empathy, sensitivity, and lasting resilience.
- Learn the impact of trauma on the brain.
- Assess student trauma-sensitive needs in the classroom.
- Discover teacher self-care strategies.
- Develop an implementation plan for trauma-sensitive instruction.
- Engage your school leaders and colleagues in your trauma-sensitive instruction.
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