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 address the most common student behaviors that interfere with teaching and learning such as:
Through self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-compassion, educators learn to recognize their own triggers and how to promote positive relationships with even the most challenging students
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Mindset Shift
See 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 co-regulate others with body language and relational strategies.
Teacher Self-Care and Self-Reflection
Receive support and strategies for taking care of yourself. 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 to improve relationships in and out of the classroom. Reduce reactivity and burnout and reclaim the joy in teaching.
See 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 co-regulate others with body language and relational strategies.
Teacher Self-Care and Self-Reflection
Receive support and strategies for taking care of yourself. 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 to improve relationships in and out of the classroom. Reduce reactivity and burnout and reclaim the joy in teaching.
Techniques
- Experiential training - simulations allow teachers to experience the classroom through the eyes of the students
- Practices support self-awareness and non-judgmental curiosity of self and other
- 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.
Evidence-Based Intervention
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- Skills and techniques are based on neuroscience and trauma research, Polyvagal and Attachment theories, and non-violent communication principles.
- 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 and higher education
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Delivery Options: Content can be delivered in a variety of formats (from 1.5 hours to full day) and tailored to meet school needs.
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