In-Person and Virtual Synchronous Seminars
5 Tips to Diffuse Difficult Behaviors in Today’s Schools (SRP) - Educators are often confronted with challenging disruptive and sometimes violent behaviors from students. These challenges can create a negative school culture that impacts teaching, student achievement as well as morale amongst students and staff. This seminar will provide opportunities for school staff to learn and practice evidence-based, proven-effective strategies to work with challenging behaviors in positive, proactive ways. (3 hours)
Addressing Aggressive Student Behavior in Schools - This seminar will focus on strategies for managing the behavior of students who demonstrate aggressive and disruptive behaviors. Participants will review a plan for ensuring they have the knowledge and skills to successfully change their behaviors, and proactive strategies for addressing specific misbehaviors. Confrontation strategies and strategies such as redirection cause and effect and overcorrection will be explored and practiced. (3 hours)
Advancing Student Success through Relationships - Participants will discuss how to build meaningful relationships with students to advance their understanding and experience success. (1 hour)
Building Community, Collaboration and Equity - Educators will discuss strategies for building a community by using the distinctive traits and talents of individuals and establish a culture of collaboration to meet individual student needs. (1.5 hour)
Collegial Collaboration & Action: Addressing Hostile and Aggressive Student Behavior - This seminar is designed to encourage conversations focused on addressing challenging student behaviors. Participants will also engage in discussions around research and explore alternative strategies that can assist with hostile and aggressive behavior. (3 hours)
Creating Safer Spaces for LGBTQ Students - This seminar encourages discussions and provides a deeper awareness of the supports needed for LGBTQ students to thrive. We will review national statistics from GLSEN’s National School Climate Survey, share resources and tools for creating an inclusive school environment, and focus on how educators can create classrooms free of bullying and harassment for LGBTQ students. (Now offered to SRPs) (3 & 4 hours)
Dealing with Challenging Students in the School Environment (SRP) - This seminar will offer strategies for dealing with students who exhibit chronic and extreme misbehavior, including violence. Participants will learn what motivates students to misbehave, intervention techniques to use at the moment of misbehavior, how to avoid and defuse confrontations, and ways to reinforce desirable behavior. (3 hours)
Dealing with Challenging Students on the Bus (SRP) - This seminar will offer strategies for dealing with students who exhibit chronic and extreme misbehavior, including violence. Participants will learn what motivates students to misbehave; intervention techniques to use at the moment of misbehavior; how to avoid and defuse confrontations, and ways to reinforce desirable behavior on the school bus. (3 hours)
Discipline Strategies - This seminar takes a comprehensive look at student-centered discipline and offers a plan of action for teachers to establish a positive classroom learning environment. Teachers learn how to set expectations and design strategies to prevent discipline problems from occurring. (2 hours) Designated for New Teachers.
Engaging the Disruptive Student - What can you do when you have students who disrupt the learning your classroom? This seminar will discuss the many strategies to enhance personal effectiveness with disruptive students and get students learning back on track. (3 hours)
Family Partnerships to Improve Classroom Behavior (SRP) - This seminar engages educators in discussing the benefits of having consistent and positive family school partnerships through frequent communication. (3 hours)
Managing Student Behavior - This seminar provides effective strategies for communicating expectations to students, creating an environment in which appropriate behaviors are more likely to occur, and helping students learn to make appropriate choices. (3 hours)
New Day, New Direction: Managing Conflict Using Resolution Strategies (SRP) - Conflicts are normal and unavoidable occurrences in our everyday lives. Most of these are minor and easily resolved. Participants will address the benefits and disadvantages of conflict, key factors to be considered in resolving conflicts, and strategies for managing and resolving conflicts. (3 hours)
Promoting Social and Emotional Competence - These sessions address the SEL needs of young children. The content of the topics is consistent with evidence-based practices identified through a thorough review of the literature. Focus on Pre-K through 2nd grade. (2 hours each)
-Designing the Physical Environment
-Controlling Anger/Impulse & Teaching
-Overview /Process of Positive Behavior
-Developing a Behavior Support Plan
Practical and Promising Classroom Management - Learn how to establish a framework for developing a personal system of classroom management that includes organizing the classroom to facilitate learning for all students. This seminar will model and investigate several conditions that are integral to an effectively managed classroom. (2 hours)
Real Life Virtual & Classroom Challenges: Strategies for Success - This seminar is designed for the new member who is working to create a classroom/virtual environment that is positive and productive. Participants will explore the potential challenges faced by educators and strategies to address them. Scenarios and strategies will be used to introduce techniques that will lead to a positive working relationship between teachers, students, and families. The seminar’s interactive activities will model how these techniques can be implemented in a teacher’s practice. The content will be mindful of the diverse learners and backgrounds present in a classroom. Participants will have an opportunity to prepare next steps needed to introduce effective approaches to establishing and maintaining a proactive teaching practice.
Restorative Practices: Promoting a Positive School Culture and Climate - This seminar provides an overview of discipline disparities, restorative practices and ways to promote positive discipline in schools. Research and reasons for using restorative practices as an alternative to suspensions and other punitive approaches to misbehavior are explored. (3 hours)
Supporting and Sustaining the Social-Emotional Needs of English Learners Who Experience Trauma - This seminar, designed for all educators who work with English language learners (ELLs), will address the multitude of trauma that many ELLs have experienced prior to and since their arrival to the US. Participants will leave this seminar with strategies to help students who have experienced trauma, tools to support ELLs’ social and emotional healing, growth and well-being, and ways to build trusting relationships with this fragile cohort. (3 and 6 hours)
Winning Over the Challenging Student - Based on the work of Kay Burke, William Glasser, Robert Marzano, and others, this program identifies reasons behind students’ lack of motivation and commitment. Participants explore classroom activities and strategies that contribute to a more positive learning environment and create lessons that encourage students to make appropriate choices regarding their learning. (15 hours)