Feeling lost when a child in your classroom experiences a crisis? This workshop empowers educators with the tools they need to manage challenging behaviors and support students during difficult times. Learn effective intervention strategies, discover practical techniques to de-escalate stressful situations, and develop skills to proactively recognize potential behavioral issues before they escalate. Gain access to a valuable toolkit filled with resources and tips, and discover how to create a supportive learning environment that fosters student well-being and positive behavior. This workshop is ideal for teachers of all grade levels, special education educators, paraprofessionals, and anyone who works with children in a classroom setting. Don't wait! Equip yourself with the skills to navigate challenging times and create a calmer, more positive learning environment for all your students. 

Struggling with Executive Functioning (EF) can affect students of all ages in the classroom. This workshop equips educators with practical strategies to support students who may have EF challenges, like those with ADHD, ASD, learning disabilities, OCD, brain injuries, or depression/anxiety. Learn best practices to help these students thrive in a school setting and achieve their academic goals. This workshop offers tips, tricks, and techniques to empower you to create a supportive learning environment for all students.

Frustrated by persistent negative behaviors in your classroom? This workshop empowers you to take control! Learn an EASY data-driven approach to identify the "why" behind student behavior. By analyzing past incidents, you'll gain the skills to develop targeted plans to address these challenges. The workshop equips you with practical tools for shaping negative behaviors and provides solutions for gradually fading support as students progress. This process-oriented approach will help you create a more positive and productive learning environment for everyone

The ever growing emotional and behavioral needs in the classroom make it difficult for all students to learn. This professional development talk is designed to look at ways that a classroom teacher can address the tier 1 and tier 2 behaviors in the classroom, in a meaningful and productive way. Utilizing a variety of these strategies will make behaviors easier to deal with, and create a classroom culture and climate that will promote the success of even some of the most challenging students. 

Not your average presentation. Discipline doesn't have to be negative. Lets look at proactive teaching strategies as well as utilizing various positive behavior supports to help students stop behaviors before they happen! 

Setting up a classroom climate and culture is something that all teachers think about. Learning how to set it up in a proactive manner to help put a stop to problem behaviors is something that can set your year up for success. Why wait to react, when you can stop the problem to begin with!  

Learn how to look at a student’s behavior and ways that you can make change on those negative behaviors in the classroom. Use easy techniques to help support students in all areas of the school setting (lunch, specials, classes). 

Having a classroom run efficiently and effectively is one of the most important skills any teacher needs to master. Classroom management is not just a science but an art. From looking at the physical set up of the classroom, to identifying easy to implement techniques your classroom will be working like a well oiled machine after the first 8 weeks of school. 

Teaching the curriculum is our job, but teaching in an engaging and fun way is something that all students want. Utilizing various strategies in lesson planning, you can walk out of this professional development by putting fun back into the classroom, and will have a variety of resources to help make the students so engaged in learning, they won’t want to go home. 

Making meaningful connections to the real world is an important skill that needs to continue to be developed. Why not start the students off in the classroom at a younger age? From learning skills such as budgeting, planning, check writing and balancing checkbooks to creating various ways that students can learn about companies and products. Why not start them now? 

Creating a warm, safe and friendly environment is just one of the first stepping stones to helping students become active members of the classroom community. This presentation addresses a variety of strategies and techniques that can be used to help develop a warm classroom environment, while addressing the needs of students that might need that extra boost of warmth. 

It’s all about the data! Data is a useful tool that can be used in a variety of capacities from tracking students progress, to behavior support and interventions. Data sometimes can be overwhelming in the classroom setting. This course looks at utilizing a variety of easy data collecting techniques that make taking data a natural part of the classroom community, while not becoming a stressor on the classroom teacher. 

The reality of a staffing shortage is just beginning to make a negative impact on school communities across the country. Teachers are continued to be asked to become more and more creative with the staff members that we have. Take the time to look at the various staff members that are present, and ways that each one can be utilized to the best of their ability to maximize student growth and impact, while utilizing some out of the box thinking. 

Why do people do what they do? This talk focuses on helping teachers identify the reasons behind maladaptive behaviors and what they can do to stop reinforcing those behaviors. 

Provide positive reinforcement to those behaviors we want to see in class. Emphasizing the ways that we want students to behave rather than relying on punishment. Easy techniques to make this system work in a classroom of any size or make up. 

Meaningful instruction on SEL can be done hand in hand while teaching academics. When done effectively, students will demonstrate empathy, compassion and respect towards each other and staff. This talk will look at a variety of ways to improve SEL in the classroom, and will show a variety of tips and techniques to make this a part of your everyday classroom routines. Easy, and effective!

Tips and Tricks to help children learn to regulate, self-advocate and communicate their emotions to help them in the classroom setting.  This professional development addresses a variety of in classroom issues, and looks at ways to integrate easy to use techniques to allow students the ability to identify their emotions and help regulate them easily in the classroom setting. 

As teachers we often are asked to collect data, but sometimes ask the question “now what?” This seminar looks at utilizing the behavioral data that you have already collected, and then takes that information to proactively change teaching practices in addressing behaviors in the classroom the very next day!