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In the midst of a national youth mental health crisis, we can and must build a more proactive system of student supports. This session is designed for counselors, school-psychologists, administrators and social workers. It is all about reframing Student Supports (RTI / MTSS) around a tier one focus. The case is made for this approach and there is an in-depth exploration of Social Emotional and Academic Development and the connections to student supports. The focus is proactive student supports over reactive student supports. When we improve our tier one supports, it reduces the number of students struggling and allows us to give better services to those in need. Tier one supports like emotional awareness, emotional regulation, conflict resolution, self-advocacy, and other proactive mental health skills can be significant protective skills for student mental health. This approach helps us raise the quality of supports for all students and reduce the number of crises.

The goal is to see tier one as connected to the overall student support work, to explore best practices and to develop a coherent narrative of supports and roles from tier one to tier three.

Have your teachers explore the research and evidence based lessons and strategies of School-Connect. The session goes from the foundations of social emotional and academic development to demonstration lessons, highlighting engagement strategies and best practices for facilitating the content. The material works on both the level of an adult personal growth workshop and a teacher professional development. It is as much an experience as it is a training. All School-Connect training sessions are led by master School-Connect teachers who have recent classroom experience teaching the lessons. This authentic and deep classroom experience gives them instant credibility with teachers. The training is recommended as a two-day event, however a 1 day version and a deeper three-day version are both offered. Teachers will leave both inspired and prepared to deliver lessons with fidelity and also to make them their own.

Planning for this work must start with organizational leaders having an inspiring shared experience, common vision, and exploration of best practices. This is a pre-planning session to create the fertile soil for growing roots to leaves and SEADs to forests. SEL Launchpad has helped launch over 450 SEAD/SEL programs across the United States in a variety of settings and has learned many helpful tips for avoiding pitfalls and building strong implementation. This session will cover many of those lessons, tips, and strategies gained from experience. This session is half presentation and half planning session. The objective is a clear vision for an actionable, sustainable, and powerful practice of SELSEAD designed around your specific school community’s needs. The plan will be your creation with experienced guidance and tons of invaluable tips.

Dysregulated people dysregulate people. Finding and sharing calm in the midst of today’s chaos is a critical and protective skill. As educational systems, we must help proactively build these skills in students and adults. This session creates an actionable awareness and model for educator self-care. We are not able to think clearly and rationally when we are dysregulated and often make the biggest mistakes in our lives when we have lost control of our emotions. What does it mean to be emotionally hijacked? What do we do when we are emotionally hijacked? And how can we prevent ourselves and others from becoming emotionally hijacked? This session covers all of that and more, as we explore the brain science of emotional awareness, self-regulation, and co-regulation skills. This is an extremely useful session not only for working with students but one you will find helpful personally and with the others you care about.

FUN! BUCKET FILLING! EXTREMELY USEFUL! This is a walk through of the major components of Social Emotional Academic Development through a happiness lens. This is a major feel good session that gives real research-based tools for inducing positive emotions, being fully present, and enhancing school and classroom climates. A wonderful jolt of positive energy to your staff wellness, teacher morale, and school climate!

This parent education workshop goes over the basics of social emotional and academic development, the data, and ways parents can support. It covers some of the science of the developing brain and its application on strategies for supporting students. This session also goes into the science of emotional hijacking, what to do when you are hijacked, and how to prevent yourself from being hijacked. Many helpful tips, inspiring anecdotes, and actionable strategies are shared that parents will find immediately useful.