In-Person and Virtual Synchronous Seminars
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 community by using the distinctive traits and talents of individuals and establish a culture of collaboration to meet individual student needs. (1 hour)
Building Capacity in NYS for Family-School Engagement Linked to Learning Initiatives - The framework for this initiative revolves around the work of Karen Mapp. This initiative creates and implements family engagement practices designed to promote positive student outcomes, SEL and career and college readiness and success (6 hour)
Developing Virtual SEL Environments for the Youth (version for teachers and SRPs) - This seminar will provide a forum for educators to share their concerns, while providing an avenue for educators to build their toolbox to help students during these times. (1 hour)
Educators Valuing Diversity - This seminar is designed to help teachers educate their students who will be living in a world of diverse communities. (2 hour)
Ensuring Equity - Ensures all students are treated equitably. In this conversation, teachers will explore how to identify what their students, as individuals and as a collective, need at this time, in this setting. (1 hour)
Historical Trauma: System of Oppression and its Impact on Youth - This seminar will identify the impact of oppression on young people and evaluate approaches to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression that impact mental health, social skills, relationships and success. (3 hour)
Infusing Diversity and Multiple Perspectives - Modeling critical thinking skills and using culturally diverse materials help in developing multiple perspectives and in examining events or problems for different angles. (1 hour)
Mindfulness in the Classroom (version for teachers and SRPs) - Participants will explore the definition of mindfulness and how it relates to whole child instruction in the classroom. Participants will have an opportunity to prepare next steps needed to integrate mindfulness into their daily routines. (3 hour)
Pyramid Model: Promoting Social & Emotional Competence in New York’s Young Children - These sessions address the social-emotional needs of young children. The content of the topics is consistent with evidence-based practices identified through a thorough review of the literature. Focus: Pre-K through 1st grade teachers.
Building Relationships and Creating Supportive Environments (7 hour)
Topic 1: Building Positive Relationships
Topic 2: Designing the Physical Environments
Topic 3: Schedules, Routines and Transitions
Topic 4: Planning Activities that Promote Engagement Topic 5: Giving Direction & Teaching Classroom Rules
Social Emotional Teaching Strategies (6 hour)
Topic 1: Developing Friendship Skills
Topic 2: Enhancing Emotional Literacy
Topic 3: Controlling Anger/Impulse & Teaching Problem Solving
Topic 4: Individualizing Instruction
Individualized Intervention (6 hour)
Topic 1: Overview/Process of Positive Behavior Supports
Topic 2: Functional Assessment/Data Collection
Topic 3: Developing a Behavior Support Plan
Topic 4: Monitoring Outcomes
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 hour and 6 hour)
The Airplane Oxygen Mask Principle Seminar (For teachers and SRPs) - This seminar provides a forum for staff to engage in structured conversations around how to manage their well-being amidst the anxiety, preoccupation and uncertainty of the COVID-19 virus. This seminar highlights the importance of taking care of yourself before you can effectively take care of others, providing practical mindful strategies that can be used at home or at any location. (1 hour)
The Impact of Culture on Student Achievement - In addition to learning a new language, ELLs have to adjust to a new environment and culture while learning new academic skills and content knowledge. Explore the impact of culture on academic achievement and identify factors that contribute to a culturally responsive classroom in this engaging session. (3 hour)
Trauma and Resilience - This introductory seminar provides a forum for educators to discuss what we mean by ‘trauma’ and how toxic stress impact development and learning. This session will provide information to help educators learn how to boost students’ resilience. (3 hour)
Trauma Awareness in Education: Supporting Resiliency and Preventing Conflict (version for teachers and SRPs) - This seminar will engage participants in understanding the roots of trauma, its prevalence and causes, the characteristics and associated behaviors, as well as learning how to work with traumatized students in a proactive and positive way. (3 hour)
What can I do? Helping students after a Traumatic Event - This seminar also encourages participants to share their expertise while learning additional evidence-based practices to enrich their toolbox about students dealing with trauma. (3 hour)
SRP Seminar: Family Partnerships to Improve Classroom Behavior - This seminar engages educators in discussing the benefits of having consistent and positive family school partnerships through frequent communication. (3 hour)
SRP Seminar: 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 hour)
SRP Seminar: Our World, Our Students - This seminar helps SRPs become more familiar with students’ cultural abilities and needs in order to create a more conducive learning environment. (2 hour)
SRP Seminar: Proactively Confronting Trauma in the Classroom and Other Learning Spaces - This seminar will provide School-Related Professionals (SRPs) with an understanding of how trauma affects students and offer an opportunity to develop strategies to support and promote school wide success. (3 hour)
