Managing Conflict in Healthy Ways
Teaching is stressful enough, but when conflicts arise at work, that stress can become toxic. Learn to identify the underlying causes of conflict, distinguish between types of conflict, and practice…
Dispute Resolution Strategies for Teacher Evaluation
This highly interactive workshop is designed to provide teachers with practical strategies and structures to defuse and resolve disputes in an impartial, healthy, transparent way. Useful for department chairs, PDEC…
Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback
This workshop is designed for complementary evaluators, peer coaches, department chairs, TEAM mentors, and anyone who wants to improve on giving and receiving feedback. Constructive feedback encourages reflection and creates…
Active Listening Skills: Strategies for All Grade Levels
As a society, we tend to talk more than we listen. Listening, despite being an essential life skill, is often not explicitly taught. While communication skills are often taught in…
Teach Whole: Strategies to Manage Stress, Build Resiliency, and Elevate Ourselves and Our Profession
Teaching isn’t easy. It never was, but it’s become far more difficult in recent years due to COVID, misguided educational policies, student behavior, and the lack of civility that permeates…
Surviving Teaching in the Age of Social Media
Social media is everywhere in our lives and seems unavoidable. What pitfalls are out there for educators in this fast-changing technological world? The track provides tips and strategies for protecting…
Mental Health First Aid
Most of us would know how to help if we saw someone having a heart attack—call 9-1-1; start CPR. Too few of us, however, know how to respond to someone…
Mind the Moment: Practical Mindfulness Activities for Students and Teachers
Mindfulness is receiving much-needed attention right now, in part due to the pressures of living in an increasingly complex world. Smartphones, busy schedules, and a 24-hour news cycle can be…
Knowledge is the Best Protection: Understanding Your Rights With Challenging Student Behavior
As the demands to address all of a student’s academic and emotional needs have increased, it is vitally important that all teachers are informed of their legal rights and duties…
Introduction to Student Trauma: Developing a Trauma Sensitive Classroom
Nearly 7 out of 10 children experience trauma, and many experience multiple traumatic experiences. The impact of trauma on children and adolescents is pervasive and presents challenges in every school…