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SPECIAL WORKSHOPS
Trauma and Resilience
The pandemic forced many to think about the ways trauma affects children’s lives. The two remaining workshops of this three-part series will take a deep look at how the body reacts to trauma and the impact of trauma on development. Participants will learn strategies for creating supportive environments and practices, including asset-based tools that reflect a child’s ability to strengthen resilience and heal. Although each workshop will build on the previous one, presentations can be taken individually or as a series. Facilitator: Genevieve Lowry
Designing Environments and Activities that Support Resilience
Using Asset-based Models to Strengthen Resilience
Connecting the Shots: Supporting Youth Who Have Been Exposed to Gun Violence
This workshop is rooted in the audacious hope that by providing educators and education leaders with a strong foundation and working knowledge around gun violence, we will be able to shift the narrative from one of death and sorrow to one of preserving life and joy. Unlike their counterparts in medicine, mental health, and law enforcement, educators and education leaders are expected to respond deftly to myriad situations without any training on gun violence. Perhaps most remarkable is that all of this occurs without fanfare because it is a part of the regular order of schooling in America. To shift that narrative, this workshop covers: (1) the context surrounding gun violence in the US, (2) an introduction to a typology of gun violence, (3) the relationship between gun violence and academic achievement, and (4) school responses to gun violence. Instructor: Nicole Limperopulos
Building a Caring School Community
Every day in America there is an assumption of care occurring in schools; that is, we assume that caring is present in schools because caring is what is supposed to occur in schools. Yet the way in which we organize schools—bureaucratic structures, hierarchical relationships, lack of resources, inconsistencies across programs and policies—create obstacles to meaningful, caring relationships. Employing a combination of whole group discussion, breakout spaces for smallgroup sharing, and opportunities for individual reflection, this workshop provides educators and school & district leaders with the tools necessary to conceptualize and develop a community of care within schools during and after the pandemic. Instructors:Linnea Pyne and Nicole Limperopulos March 9 and 30 | Online Wednesdays, 7:15 PM–9:15 PM ET 4 CTLE or .4 CEU $195 Registration Deadline: 3/2
