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Resilient Classrooms
Professional Development for preK-12 Schools

Resilient Classrooms: A trauma-informed approach to enhancing learning and well-being for all children
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These professional development trainings equip educators to understand and address the most common student behaviors that interfere with teaching and learning such as:
  • aggression, impulsivity, inattention, fearfulness, and lack of motivation
  • students with diagnoses such as ADHD, anxiety, ODD, CD and LD

Learn to recognize your own triggers and how to promote good relationships with even the most difficult students

Mindset shift
S
ee your students' behavior with a different lens – recognize and understand the NEED underlying the behavior.  Use the teacher-student relationship as the means to co-regulate the child.  Provide a safe relationship for learning and watch your students reclaim their natural curiosity and love of learning.

Bottom-up Regulation 
Learn body-based strategies to influence feelings of safety, connectedness, regulation, and well-being.  Become adept at reading mental states in others and how to influence others with body language and relational strategies. 


Teacher Self-Care and Self-Reflection
Receive support and strategies for taking care of yourself.  Practice techniques to use both in and out of the classroom.  Delve into your own relationship history to uncover what you bring to the teacher-student relationship.  Learn practices for mindful awareness and self-compassion as you do this difficult work.  Reduce burnout and reclaim the joy in teaching.


Techniques
  • Experiential training - simulations allow teachers to experience the classroom through the eyes of the students
  • Case studies drawn from teachers' own experiences are discussed and problem-solved.
  • A mix of lecture, video, small and large group discussion illustrate the process.
  • Provides hand-outs for future reference with variety of tools/techniques.
  • Easy classroom implementation – flexible to work with any teaching style

Evidence-Based intervention     
  • Skills and techniques are based on social neuroscience, developmental psychology and trauma research.
  • Research based strategies improve executive cognitive functions, self-regulation and relationships.
  • Tools and techniques will enhance well-being and learning for all children, but will be particularly well suited for challenging kids.
  • Appropriate for classroom use or one-on-one
  • Suitable for teachers, administrators and staff in levels preK-12


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