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By the year 2030 our world will look very different, and so will the jobs that exist. How do we look to the future to prepare students for the workforce they will go into? In this session we will explore the biggest trends predicted to shape our world by 2030, discuss what challenges schools currently face to adapt to the changes, and finally, practical solutions we can implement today to overcome those challenges. Spoiler alert, Social and Emotional Learning will be more critical than ever!

As Nicholas Ferroni says, “Kids who are loved at home come to school to learn, but kids who aren’t, come to school to be loved”. Todd has watched first hand in his own classroom and now on his campus how empowering students and adults has transformed not only the culture of the campus but has transformed lives as well. Todd shares many different strategies that you can implement immediately that will positively affect those around you and build stronger relationships.

Sharing with educators and parents on the importance of mental health and self-care.

Gaining new skills and being recognized for demonstrating mastery of skills are important elements in one’s overall emotional health. When we feel better equipped to manage and perform our professional duties, we develop a sense of pride and accomplishment that boosts our overall sense of well-being. Traditional professional development programs often do not provide the synergy that leads to lasting change in classroom practices or a boost in professional efficacy. Micro-credentials are a new pathway to professional learning that focuses on individual needs. Micro-credentials are job-embedded, just-in-time, personalized, skill-based tasks and resources that are
focused on the specific areas important to the learner.

Trish Keiller – Founder, Roots Education; Master Trainer, Coach and Speaker
Jill Stansbury – Social and Emotional Learning Consultant and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Facilitator
Alyssa Poggioli – Life, Leadership & Connection coach
Dr.Janíce T Samuels – Educational Technology Leader, Writer, Activist
Rheon Gibson – The Creator and Owner of The Dizz Wizz Series

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Sue Beers – Director of MISIC
Valarie Pearce – Author and Educator
Scarlett Lewis – Founder of Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement
Katie Ross – Director of Programming of EYEJ

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The pandemic has disrupted student learning and has exposed the inequities in education that disproportionately impact underserved communities. Families were suddenly at the center of student learning without any warning or dedicated resources for how to support their children’s education and well-being at home. AVANCE’s two-generation approach capitalizes on parents’ inner strength and innate love for their children to help them become the best teachers and stewards of their children’s growth and success. This session will feature lessons learned as we pivoted to remote learning with parents and their children; the co-creation of activities for personalized instruction; the training provided to parents and educators; and the collaboration between parents and teachers to ensure their children’s success.

3 Tools to Expand your Emotional Intelligence and Become a Superhero (or Shero)

Emotional Intelligence makes you so aware, you’ll feel like you have super powers that “normal” people don’t realize. In this presentation I’m teaching you three powerful tools.

The pandemic has drastically exacerbated and changed the stressors faced by educators and parents alike. Take a deep dive into those changes and how each of us can positively develop our own Social Emotional Health in order to be a positive influence for future generations.

Dr. Shantel Scott has been an educator for 18 years. Her mission is to inspire, educate, empower, and build confidence in learners of all ages through the design of personalized, authentic, and impactful learning experiences.

Take 3 simple steps to support your well-being in the classroom. Learn how to use SEL to manage the difficulties of teaching and classroom management. Lessen your stress and leave school with more energy. Find balance happiness in and out of your classroom with SEL. Join me and learn how!

We’ll discuss 4 ways educators can provide students with choice/autonomy in their learning. We’ll provide a checklist & examples teachers can use when designing lessons. Educators will leave the session better equipped to create student-centered, personalized, equitable, and engaging learning.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is much more than something to add to the to do list. SEL is a lens that can help us alter current practices to better support those entering our schools each day. This session focuses on educational practices that support SEL and well-being.

We’ll discuss 4 ways educators can provide students with choice/autonomy in their learning. We’ll provide a checklist & examples teachers can use when designing lessons. Educators will leave the session better equipped to create student-centered, personalized, equitable, and engaging learning.

An expansion of individualist Social Emotional Learning to a group analysis, and how that gets us social justice

When you are an educator returning from a distanced world of the pandemic, proper perspective and self-management techniques can help you better control potential states of overwhelm, creating a more balanced brain. Join Valerie to discover the anatomy of EQ and how to enhance your performance.

La pandemia ha perturbado el aprendizaje de los estudiantes y ha puesto al descubierto las desigualdades en la educación que afectan desproporcionadamente a las comunidades desatendidas. De repente, las familias se convirtieron en el centro del aprendizaje de los estudiantes sin ninguna advertencia ni recursos sobre cómo apoyar la educación y el bienestar de sus hijos en el hogar. El enfoque de dos generaciones de AVANCE realza la fortaleza interior de los padres y el amor innato por sus hijos para ayudarlos a convertirse en los mejores maestros y administradores de su crecimiento y su éxito. Esta sesión presentará las lecciones aprendidas a medida que pasamos al aprendizaje remoto con los padres y sus hijos; la co-creación de actividades para la instrucción personalizada; la capacitación proporcionada a los padres y educadores; y la colaboración entre padres y maestros para asegurar el éxito de sus hijos.

Have you heard the term social emotional learning and are unsure of what it is or why it is important? Well, this presentation describes the important components of social emotional learning, or the WHO. The What focuses the different means of teaching children these skills. The WHY is the research based overall benefits of making it an integral part of school & life in general. The HOW provides simple to use tools, tips, and techniques for everyday life. The best part is it is adult friendly as well!!

This session gives tips and tools to succeed in high pressure environments. These are techniques that teachers, parents, and students can put into practice immediately for results. The session is especially helpful for those in testing, sports, and high stress situations.

Do you ever feel like the whirlwind of life is taking over? You know you want to connect with your kids and equip them with all the SEL and EQ skills. Yet, when push comes to shove, it seems a little overwhelming- especially in light of everything else that is looming on your never-ending to do list. If this resonates or you’re just looking for more fun and easy ways to teach your kids EQ/SEL, then this session is for you. I’ll share simple, fast and engaging ways to use play to stealthily teach your kids these skills. My session will be lively and light. You’ll leave empowered with games and activities that you can play to effortlessly create a more loving, creative and emotionally regulated home environment for yourself and your family. Let’s play!

Emotional Intelligence: Defined, the impact on children, strategies to develop it.

EYEJ: Empowering Youth Exploring Justice drives social justice reform by empowering young people to advocate for change. Our YODJ: Youth Online Discussing justice implements a trauma-informed approach to SEL to meet our students where they are while utilizing a strength-based perspective to build resilience in our youth. Come and learn about the 7 approaches to trauma-informed practice in SEL and how to implement these in a remote space!

Do your students need a personal toolkit to help them navigate through life’s ups and downs? Together we will build a life-skill lesson plan, learn new breathing techniques, practice mindful games, integrate core content, and learn relaxation tips. Come away with a digital resource bundle to equip students with skills to improve self-regulation, self-awareness, social awareness, problem-solving, and self-management.

Are you a Friday educator or a Monday educator? Friday educators can’t wait to get out of the building at the end of the week, while Monday educators can’t wait to get back to school after the weekend. Joy may be one of the biggest differentiating factors. The demands on educators often feels overwhelming. Each day we are confronted with behavioral issues, inequity, suicidal ideation, and diversity challenges...and that’s on top of working with students on future career options and post-secondary education, and keeping track of all the data and documentation. Meanwhile, student mental health issues are on the rise. It can be an easy recipe for discouragement and overload. When the education tidal wave begins to swell, how do you stand strong and continue to pour out the encouragement, wisdom, and support your students need? In this heartfelt, engaging talk, Julia Cook shares what it’s taken her years to figure out. Happiness is momentary, but Joy is a constant state of contentment that is not shifted by the chaos around us. Through stories and practical steps, Julia teaches us how to shift our thinking and actions so that we can:
• Move from looking for temporary happiness to finding long-term joy
• Develop a process for self-care that inhibits burnout and compassion fatigue
• Inspire others to find their own inner joy
• Be a school counselor who looks forward to Mondays
Joy is the magic that shifts perspectives and helps us maintain passion and purpose, even in the hard seasons. Joy is the gift that keeps on giving...to you and everyone around you. In this special talk from Julia, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry... and you’ll leave with a plan for growing in joy, finding fresh meaning in your work, and supporting those who need you most.

Eduprotocol Field Guide Co-Author Jon Corippo will be welcoming you to his virtual classroom, where he will model culture building, creative learning opportunities, and differentiation just like he does with the kids in his classroom.

This presentation will explore student accommodations in higher education, specifically focusing on the rising number of students who experience mental health concerns and how instructors can support this population.

As a school leader, there are many ways that you can influence your students, staff and community. Jerry's presentation will provide practical ways for any leader to support students, maximize their potential and help students be future ready.

This powerful presentation will tap into what true Emotional Intelligence (E.I) is at ALL ages (it’s not what you think or what they have been telling you). Going even deeper we will take the attendee through three components of E.I. unique to K-8. And deeper yet giving 3 powerful tools to amplify these components of E.I. no matter the environment. “Sealing the deal” with a powerful integration activity! You will walk away feeling extraordinarily confident in connecting your E.I. to the child/young adult and creating a powerful environment of connection, growth and learning.

Did you know that having five or more positive emotions for every negative strengthens resilience, self-discipline, and emotion regulation? Experience 5-minute routines that generate this magic ratio instantly in students and adults! Designed for busy educators. Free materials and curriculum!

It’s so easy to think we know who are students are based on those who came before them. Yet our students are like a snowflake, each unlike any other. Knowing and respecting our student’s culture and stories will improve success and outcomes for our students of color.
Join Dr. Chiromo and Valarie Pearce as they identify what a culturally responsive classroom looks like and offer tangible techniques for schools and teachers to implement. You will unpack how social-emotional learning techniques support diverse classrooms by creating a safe learning environment where all students can grow, learn and thrive.

What can we change about our morning routines that supports Social Emotional Regulation so our kids and our students are READY to learn and be their best at home at school? This session will provide tangible strategies for teachers and parents.

This presentation will focus on Social EMotional Learning as a crtical success factor in today educational landscape. It will also highlight how educators can use empathy to help students in the classroom.

In this workshop, you will understand how childrens’ brains develop, the effects of violence and stress on a child’s brain, how to promote healthy brain development and recognize teenage brain development, and how to develope coping skills for children during COVID19 and the appearance of disruptive behaviors with early learners.

Raising a child with high EQ is an important goal for parents. Benefits can be seen immediately as the child learns to control their temper, play with others, and make friends. You may notice a shift in your child’s outlook towards positivity, improvement in grades, and perseverance. There are also long term benefits that can be seen years later as they grow up to be successful leaders who are authentic, compassionate, and resilient.

In 2018, the average amount of screen time was around 3.5 hours every day; new estimates are showing that we may have doubled that number into 2020 and the pandemic. Technology isn't going away, and with the increase in at-home education, it's important now more than ever to understand how screen time impacts our adult brains and those of our students or children. During this presentation, I'll explain developmental neuroscience to providing practical and easy-to-use strategies to help create healthy technology usage and simple EQ exercises to help our children thrive in this new world.

This presentation is geared towards leaders/educators on how to leverage emotional intelligence in the work environment. The goal is to help them become self-aware, maintain emotional regulation, socially aware of the needs of others, build positive work relationships, and make effective decisions.

The presentation will consist of tips and information to help build a cohesive learning environment for parents, teachers and students

Break the cycle of stress, moving from chaos to calm through breath, movement, mindfulness, nature, and music. Learn the neuroscience behind emotions, what activities can create a DOSE of Happy, and how a PAUSE can improve focus, connections and school wellbeing!

In this informative and cheeky talk the concept of emotional intelligence, its existence and the need to grow the skillset will be brought to you in a real world fashion. Aleasa Word will engage a chuckle, apply knowledge and spark both curiosity and motivation to lean in a little deeper.

The Covid-19 crisis has turned children's worlds upside down, and we as educators must do our part to keep them physically and emotionally safe. Let's help them navigate these uncertain times by placing a premium on social-emotional learning. This session shares a teacher's toolkit of SEL activities for immediate implementation centered around CASEL's Five Core Competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

In this presentation, you will learn how to help your students dialogue to create the right agreements and norms that produces a culture of Verve or Energy. Ultimately, a culture of Energy helps revitalize students so they can experience meaning, shared purpose, and deeper connections.

This presentation will use the children's book My Kind of Me as an aide to demonstrate how to explore the concepts of Bullying, Self-efficacy and Peer Advocacy in the classroom.

The option of a virtual education for your children was a safe solution in a world made uncertain by COVID-19. However, with the swift adoption of remote learning also came many unintended consequences for parents. Did you fully anticipate the interaction overload you are experiencing with your kids? Are you still searching for the lines that distinguish work vs. home vs. “assistant teacher” vs. parent? At times, do you feel like you are collapsing under the weight of the expectation that you can and should be able to do it all? Then please register for Welcome to Space: Creating Balance to Overcome the Challenges of Remote Learning. This insightful and engaging session will reset your thinking and give you the tools to create the personal space you need so you can parent with excellence.

Este taller proporcionará a los educadores las prácticas mas efectivas para lograr la participation de los padres y desafiará a los educadores a utilizar los principios de Intelligence Emocional para replantear la forma en que involucran, utilizan y empoderan a los padres. Los asistentes se irán con una nueva perspectiva y algunos consejos y herramientas útiles para involucrar a los padres de diversos orígenes.

Throughout this presentation I will discuss the undeniable benefits to teaching children Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills utilizing mindful practices.

Mitch Schneider enjoys fostering innovation, learning, and social change through collaboration. He has developed multiple multi-million dollar social-benefit organizations and has a history of success in strategy, fundraising, social ROI, program implementation, and leadership development. His lifelong pursuit to promote individual empowerment and reduce multi-generational poverty has recently led him to the education sector. Mitch has master degrees in international management (MIM), entrepreneurial management (MBA), and elementary education (MAT). . He is pursuing a doctoral degree (EDD) ) with a focus on social-emotional learning technology, healthy engagement strategies, and instructional design and technology for social change. He has an 11-year-old son that he adores. Together they actively explore learning, sports, cooking, and – outrageous laughter. He currently serves as the founder and CEO of STRUT Learning with cofounder and Board Chair Douglas Yau. Together they are proud to help lead a passionate team of educators, SEL Specialists, technologists, and entrepreneurs.

Learning how to lead our self in our day to day life requires EQ and Intention. In this conversation for parents, we will be discussing practical and tangible ways to bring EQ and Mindfulness into the home and actionable ways to feel empowered no matter what life circumstances you are experiencing.

Learn the intrinsic relationship between mental health and financial health. Receive practical tools and proven strategies from psychology to promote positive mental health and financial health and resilience in yourselves and your children/students. Resources and exercises will be shared.

Sharing pandemic era, field-tested tools and techniques for leveraging SEL

Success depends less on what you can accomplish on your own and more on the quality of results you can produce by working with and through others. This presentation provides a powerful set of tools for the relational, emotional, and conversational elements of professional success.

Sue Beers – Director of MISIC
Valarie Pearce – Author and Educator
Scarlett Lewis – Founder of Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement
Katie Ross – Director of Programming of EYEJ

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The developing brain struggles with isolation and unpredictability, as they wreak havoc on identity and EQ. The pandemic has left many students dissociated and looking for ways to retreat. It is up to educators and caregivers to shape systems of connectivity where students feel safe and valued.

Children everywhere has experienced some type of loss since the global pandemic of COVID-19. Perhaps it is a loss of routine or friendships. Perhaps it is a loss of loved ones or a stable homelife. Whatever the loss may be, children are experiencing grief and their grownups can help by processing those emotions together in safe, positive ways. Rebecca will guide participants through three practical, meaningful activities to do right away at home or in the classroom that include the arts, literacy, and memory making.

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Prismatic Parenting and Teaching: Self-connection Strategies for Optimal Youth Outcomes
Learn ways that parents and teachers can heal internalized cultural stress that may impact their families and classrooms as a result of living in a culture that sends negative messages about LGBTQ+ people.

This presentation aims to help hard working educators trade frustration and overwhelm for clarity and joy.

Find out:
The most important mindset you need to quickly get your weekends back.
How to practice well-being that saves time,
The most important strategy to maintain these shifts.

Combining basic mindfulness techniques and simple creative writing tools, teachers and students can deepen their connections to, and understanding of, themselves, their curriculum, and each other.

Character strengths are integral parts of our personality that impact how we think, feel & behave. Experts have identified 24 strengths we all have the capacity to express. During my workshop, you will discover & apply your own character strengths, & learn how to do the same for staff & students.

In this interactive talk, you’ll discover ways to share powerful mindfulness and play based mind-body practices that can immediately engage kids who are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, and more.

Participants will learn how to create digital and printable breathing boards, how to apply trauma-sensitive language when using guided relaxations scripts, and will come away with some fun and easy-to-implement coping techniques and tips.

Traumatized children often struggle with emotional regulation. Cognitive and behavioral interventions can be ineffective when a child's attachment needs are unmet. This presentation will explore the benefits of attachment interventions and provide specific interventions for the classroom and home.

Participants will understand the need to able to help students develop the social, emotional and self-regulations skills they need to be successful. Participants will receive teaching strategies to create a learning environment where students feel safe and empowered.

Education and parenting during the COVID-19 Pandemic has come with an abundance of obstacles and challenges. In this presentation, we will not only recognize those challenges, but we will focus on the strengths you've developed in the process.

It wasn’t just students who braved a new way of learning when the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools across the nation, but school leaders, teachers, and parents were challenged to create a new blueprint for providing valuable instruction and learning.
Let’s face it, we can’t pour from an empty cup. In order to serve and commit to the needs of others during these times of uncertainty, our educators and parents will need time to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re going as we recharge our minds and refresh our spirits so that we can be there for others.
Niki Spears, author of the new children’s book The Hand Hug and The Beauty Underneath the Struggle: Creating Your BUS Story will help you reflect, recharge and recommit to the journey ahead!
Grab your pencils and get ready to create your BEST B.U.S Story as you discover the beauty underneath the struggle.

Vision is purpose, believing and using the power of thinking. Vision moves you forward to being courageous, consistent and impactful. Vision provides direction and focus. Use the secrets revealed in this workshop to keep your vision alive and active.

Childhood anxiety increases over time if not managed and can keep children from living up to their potential. Only when anxiety is understood and addressed can children take control of all areas of their life so they can live in their joy and happiness.

Enhance your life & leadership with Emotional intelligence

Children need guidance understanding race, but many adults cannot find tools to provide guidance. This presentation demonstrates an approach to race dialogue that begins with storytelling and listening. This approach is born out of listening to children as a catalyst for those conversations.

We are the first generation of digital parents. And Social Media is a new , dynamic - almost infinite concept.
This session will help you understand
- The brain psychology of a teen
- The benefits and pitfalls of Social media
- What a parent of a teen needs to know before their teen enters the world of social media.
- Signs of social media addiction

As we return to school again so many children, teens and professionals are looking for more skills to self-regulate challenging emotion emerging from recent traumatic events. In this workshop, you’ll discover ways to use body based mind-body practices that can immediately engage struggling students.

Today, parents and educators are forced to address increasingly complex challenges as well as grow with uncertainty. It is a good time to have a healthy dose of optimism whether you are struggling with an overall feeling that life is not turning out the way you thought it would.

Interactive, Practical Workshop
3 x 15 minute sessions, each with a set of links and labs. Each session will include one actual storytime of 3-5 minutes.
1) Storytime & Somatics - Language and Listening with Our Whole Selves
a) The Rabbit Listened, by Corri Doerrfeld
2) Storytime & Improvisation - Play-based Approach to Read Aloud
a) Carmela Full of Wishes, by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Chritian Robinson
3) An Actual Storytime! Modeling Bravery, Curiosity & Joy
a) Sometimes I’m Bambaloo, by Rachel Vail, illustrated by Yumi Heo
Participants will be encouraged to upload a storytime with improvised sound/music before the end of the summit.

Session leaders will explore how Southern Word’s
practice as writers in classrooms impacts racial and
social emotional dynamics for students.

This presentation utilizes experiences in a social/emotional context to allow the audience to develop a holistic understanding of how utilizing certain approaches and techniques (i.e. 1- Down, Curiosity vs Judgment, Cameraman) will assist them with building positive relationships in schools/homes.

The pandemic had profound impacts on schools everywhere. Although much has been lost, opportunities for growth and change have emerged. This presentation will look at unexpected lessons in building a stronger school community students, parents, and educators.

This workshop will provide educators with effective parent engagement best practices and will challenge educators to utilize EQ principles to rethink how they engage, utilize, and empower parents. Attendees will leave with a new perspective and some useful tips and tools to engage parents from diverse backgrounds.

Relationships are key to success. We know this to be true in both our homes and in schools. How then, can we actively work to build and maintain strong, positive relationships? Circles. Join me and explore the structures of Circles, the various types and uses or Circles, and how this simple, yet effective, approach can be implemented both at schools and at home. Learn today. Build tomorrow.

In these three videos I'll explain how deeply related are the social and digital world, examining the meaning and the characteristics of SEL and DEL (first video); the impact of Social media on Empathy (second video) and the Best skills of Leadership for parenting and teaching (last one).

An examination of parental styles, attitudes and behaviors that impact on children. Tools for immediate consideration.

Research shows that 80% of our children's future success depends on their mindset. Let's learn how to best support our children's social and emotional well-being - in and out of the classroom. So that they grow with an invincible mindset and an unshakable sense of self.

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is an essential part of the educational experience for children. Teaching children essential skills, tools, and attitudes, beyond academics, will help them thrive socially, physically, emotionally, and mentally. They will develop healthy relationships, manage their emotions, and be resilient. SEL teaches children life skills that result in emotional intelligence, moral awareness and personal responsibility and is the single most powerful proactive mental health initiative there is. Scarlett Lewis will share the riveting story of how she lost her six-year-old son, Jesse, in the Sandy Hook tragedy and explain how the three words he left on their kitchen chalkboard, “Nurturing Healing Love” led her to create a worldwide movement that focuses on social and emotional learning and character education and is based on the Choose Love Formula (Courage + Gratitude + Forgiveness + Compassion-in-Action = Choosing Love). She will explain what the Formula comprises and demonstrate engaging yet simple activities that parents and educators can share with their children and students that they can then practice and apply at home and in the classroom. By learning and practicing the simple, but powerful Choose Love Formula, and understanding how choosing love over fear can empower and change a person’s thoughts, parents, educators, and children can choose love in every situation, circumstance, or interaction and work together to create a safer, more peaceful world.

Having the tools to stay out of the Drama Triangle is exciting. When you begin to take responsibility for your own happiness and satisfaction, you find creative solutions that are 100% authentic to who you are and the life you dream of living.

Jennifer Watson – Wellness + Leadership Coach, Breakthrough Speaker, Integrative Physical Therapist
Kristin Calabria – Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) and Founder of BRIDGE
Laura Haver – Mom, Author, Coach, Speaker & Beach Lover
Melanie Larkins – High Performance Coach for Elite Athletes
Niki Spears – Motivational Speaker and Author

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For the last year, educators across the country have grappled with an unprecedented set of circumstances, bravely facing the layered impact of COVID19, economic crisis, and persistent, pernicious racial inequities and violence. Oh, and there’s also your regular job and life responsibilities! We’ve all been affected in some kind of way by these multiple, extraordinary, intertwined events. And yet, as educators we do what we’ve always done; we soldier on, shouldering a tremendous responsibility to help young people learn, process, and understand. It can be exhausting stuff. And, frankly, we cannot effectively support students unless we are creating an equally robust infrastructure of support for ourselves. In this webinar, we’ll begin to build that architecture, taking time to learn, connect, and heal. In particular, we will discuss and explore concrete strategies to help educators:
● Critically assess and enhance their self-care routine by utilizing a self-care planning tool
● Create the right working conditions for holistic well-being (read: set and sustain realistic boundaries!)
● Find affinity and solidarity in your institutional space
● Name and acknowledge the disparate experience for educators of color and utilize constructivist listening practices to build authentic, culturally responsive allyship

It is our responsibility as educators to create an environment for students to not only learn effectively but to grow as human beings mentally, socially, and emotionally. We need to stop putting so much energy into curriculum rather we should be focusing on improving our own Emotional Intelligence to better understand the bigger picture of our students. When we put more attention on the social and emotional needs of our students they are provided with a foundation for a safe and positive learning environment that will enhance the students' ability to succeed in school, careers, and life.

Throughout our lives, our emotional and traumatic experiences store themselves in the physical body. Particularly when working with children and adolescents, one of the best ways to access and process their emotional experience is through somatic work. We’ll practice this together by utilizing the framework of polyvagal theory in conjunction with top-down and bottom-up regulation. Many young people are experiencing heightened instances of stress, anxiety, and depression due to isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our journey through movement, psychoeducation, skill-building, and processing will equip educators, caregivers, and other stakeholders to begin healing work in their own communities.

This fun presentation will empower parents and teachers with simple mindfulness brain breaks that leave them feeling relaxed, refreshed and energized. Be ready to move along and experience these mindful movements in your own body. These same brain breaks are meant to be incorporated throughout the days with students. I will also share tips to understand the connection of our 3 brains ( head, heart and gut) and how understanding these 3 brains support our physical and emotional well-being. Along with some joyful self-care tips that will leave you feeling inspired to incorporate them in your daily life. Knowing that caring for ourselves is the best way to care for the children in our lives.

During this session, we will explore the subconscious mind and the impact on our daily experiences. We will then key in on and practice the 4 mindset management techniques that open up possibility, decrease stress and anxiety, evoke joy and happiness, and transform the way we engage with the world!

This session gives tips and tools to succeed in high pressure environments. These are techniques that teachers, parents, and students can put into practice immediately for results. The session is especially helpful for those in testing, sports, and high stress situations.

The ability to stay positive, manage our emotions, and work under pressure are key to success. In this presentation, Kevin will share stories and you will walk away with information and strategies you can apply immediately so we can be more productive and less stressed at school, work, and home.

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Learn how observational skills and perspective shifting supports creative thinking for students.

In my presentation, I will discuss the 3 steps for turning an experience that stimulates feeling of regret, to feeling a deep sense of gratitude. The steps are Acceptance, Understanding, and Forgiveness.

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At our best, we can be effective school leaders –we can set a clear direction, communicate well, engage others, and achieve change. But how do we respond when under pressure or when faced with setbacks? How well do we cope with change? How can we stay at our best regardless of the challenges of the role?
In this session, we will help you to become more aware of your state, how you respond to everyday stresses and the types of triggers that typically derail you. We will explore six ‘Mindtraps’™ that may catch you and we will explain the impact that your Mindtraps™ have on your leadership effectiveness. Finally, we will introduce you to a three-step process to help you to deliberately manage your state by unhooking yourself from your Mindtraps™ and find a more positive way of responding. As you start to build your own skillset around personal resilience, you will also find that you can naturally use the same strategies to help colleagues (and students) stay resourceful in stressful situations.

This presentation will discuss mindfulness as a vehicle for profound wellness, self-optimization, and enhanced organizational outcomes. I argue that by applying a humble approach for beginners learning mindfulness, it is easier to increase adoption, build momentum, and sustainably help others.

Have you ever found yourself shaking your head and asking, “What’s wrong with this child? What if we instead asked, “What has happened to this child?” Explore the effects of trauma on learning. Learn strategies to stay centered and address behaviors to create safety.

With so many conversations around race and ethnicity in our educational spaces, we must understand that some of the best intentions have unintended consequences. Join me as I share how this approach to equity and inclusion shaped my perceptions and experiences both in and out of school.

Our digital behavior can have as much or even more impact on our lives than our behavior in real life. How can we encourage and teach better digital behavior? One answer is through SEL. Learn about the top SEL skills for digital citizenship through working with thousands of students.