Your brain is your most important tool! Your students’ brains are their most important tool! We have always known that, but how much have we truly recognized it?! We believe that having a basic understanding of the biological processes underlying the way we think, learn, and make decisions should be considered mandatory. Neuroeducation is...
In this four-part interactive workshop series, participants will reflect on their habits and mindsets to identify those that hinder or help productivity and peace. This workshop has three objectives: 1) identify current goals and challenges as adult learners, 2) use the stages of the self-regulated learning cycle to develop greater self-awareness of your learning processes,...
Assessment and data have become hot topics in education these days, but numbers can be dehumanizing. In this workshop, we’ll study how to bring humanizing assessments into our practice that help us see, appreciate, and honor the students in front of us and use the knowledge that comes with it to prepare for personalized learning...
This session will review the latest federal and state legislation, guidance, and case law related to meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Topics to be covered will include: implementing recent legislation (c. 109) permitting some students to continue their K-12 education beyond age 21; assessing the need for compensatory services for students (note...
Let’s create the future together! We are at a point where we have never been. A SEL sub-competency is knowing when and how to ask for help. An Adult SEL competency is the ability to establish balance and boundaries. The session will bring folks from all over to brainstorm ways for the adults in...
This workshop will focus on the Harkness Method: an active, discussion-based learning style that requires students to lead, manage, and regulate their own discussions. This session will provide educators with the tools and strategies required to effectively implement, assess, and facilitate Harkness discussions in their own classrooms and schools. Specifically, participants will be able...
After over a year of disconnectedness due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to support children emotionally and socially is imperative. In this workshop, we will explore how empathy presents itself in the classroom and its significance in regards to the classroom environment and successful learning. Together, we will define empathy in an educational...
In this session, participants will discuss what it means to center joy in literacy instruction and learning. Attendees will consider how educators can push the concept of equity and racial justice from imagination to joyous practice. The session will interrogate what actions educators can take to help students be proactive in fostering changes in...
In this four-part interactive workshop series, participants will reflect on their habits and mindsets to identify those that hinder or help productivity and peace. This workshop has three objectives: 1) identify current goals and challenges as adult learners, 2) use the stages of the self-regulated learning cycle to develop greater self-awareness of your learning processes,...
Just School. Just Growth: The Path to Student Agency Just: /jəst/ adjective based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair. All learning is social and emotional, but to truly thrive, students require equitable and trauma-informed learning spaces. Equity, Trauma-informed and SEL work as instrumental to reducing toxic stress and creating safe,...
In this four-part interactive workshop series, participants will reflect on their habits and mindsets to identify those that hinder or help productivity and peace. This workshop has three objectives: 1) identify current goals and challenges as adult learners, 2) use the stages of the self-regulated learning cycle to develop greater self-awareness of your learning processes,...
Research has changed. While research still includes gathering sources, reading closely, and synthesizing information across them, it also includes understanding perspectives, validating information, and knowing how to read a variety of digital and visual texts. In this session we will take participants through a research process that can be used across the curriculum that involves...