This module will cover learning strategies that incorporate all of our senses and how to best achieve learning goals for all types of learners. Strategies for visual, tactile, and auditory learners as well incorporating “new” senses of vestibular and proprioceptive input.

This module will be primarily taught by an Occupational Therapist and will cover low-cost items to assist teachers with meeting student needs in functional communications and written production including writing aids, adaptive papers, assistive grips, and helpful technology applications for common problems.

This module will cover emotional and behavioral regulation tips/strategies for classroom management and the science behind it for both students and teachers. How to stay in the Executive Brain State (Prerequisite for this course Emotions: Yours, Theirs & the need for Regulation)

This module will highlight the role that mental health plays in the classroom environment. We will examine the way that our personal mental health and professional well-being are intertwined.

This module will introduce you to the neuroscience of trauma and the experience of amygdala hijack. We will utilize the Blissful Kids model by Chris Bergstrom to make this brain science accessible to educators and their students. This can be utilized to help educators be trauma-informed, and students be trauma aware.

This module will utilize the brain state model from Conscious Discipline to better understand the importance of emotional regulation for learning. We will discuss what happens in the classroom when students or educators enter an emotional state.

This module will provide information about attachment styles, how they are developed, and how they impact our everyday relationships. Although attachment styles are developed early in life, they are present throughout every stage of development in the classroom. We will help you to recognize attachment injuries, attachment styles and ways to work through corresponding challenges within classroom relationships.

This module will focus on a shift from surviving to thriving. While the topics discussed in previous sessions can help an educator manage difficult situations, this session will give you ways to go a step further and protect yourself and your students from the impact of daily stress.

This module will introduce practical ways to build a sense of community in the classroom, developing relationships with students, and facilitating an engaging learning environment built on relationships.

This module will discuss how to best meet student needs to achieve fulfillment at each level of Maslow’s Hierarchy with goal of self-actualization and the highest level of brain states, executive brain state, needed for learning.

This module will go in depth into the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and the long-term effects of childhood trauma over the lifetime.

Children exposed to domestic violence experience trauma on many levels.  This module will look at the long and short-term repercussions of experiencing this chronic trauma.  Topics will include the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, attachment injuries as a result of trauma, and the effects of chronic stress on brain development.