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Maximizing Student Engagement

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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 educators 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 and wellness hacks that correlate to the phases of the school year and that are easy to implement at both the personal and professional level.

Best Practices in Wellness for Learners

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.

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.

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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.

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• 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.

Social-Emotional Learning: Supporting Growth in Elementary School Students and Staff

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.

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Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Developing Strengths in All Students

The need for belonging, along with mastery, independence, and generosity, form the core principles of social and emotional learning.

• Study the hazards facing youth at risk: relational trauma, failure as futility, powerlessness, and loss of purpose.

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.

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.

Sustaining Your Skills

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.

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 tailored learning experience, with handson activities and practical strategies to develop learners’ emotional and social skills as thoroughly as their academic skills.