A few weeks ago, I rolled out a new training/consulting opportunity in my bi-weekly newsletter to schools. This is a fantastic opportunity for schools or districts to get a lot of bang for their buck and make tremendous headway toward building a trauma-informed culture in their building or district.
The informational flyer below outlines the details, but many aspects of this partnership are customizable to fit the needs of each particular school. I originally opened up 5 spots for the 2022-2023 school year, and I have 2 spots remaining.
Interested in learning more? Reach out to me at akedconsult@gmail.com.
I’m so excited to introduce my newest trauma-informed schools training: Building Emotional Intelligence Through Social-Emotional Learning!
Since 2011, emotional intelligence levels have been declining across the globe. What does this mean? It means that our ability to be self-aware, feel motivation and to self-regulate, show empathy and communicate effectively is worsening. For children, this may result in a lack of understanding of emotions and the inability to correctly identify and appropriately express these feelings.
The great news about emotional intelligence is that it is not static! We can actually build our EQ muscles through a multitude of strategies. One of the most beneficial ways to do this in a school is through the implementation of social-emotional learning skills.
In this training, you will learn all about the topics above and so much more, including:
What is Emotional Intelligence?
The importance/benefits of Emotional Intelligence
The 5 components of Emotional Intelligence
Specific strategies for building Emotional Intelligence
Helping students recognize, identify and regulate their emotions
De-escalation and mindfulness strategies
The 11 key areas of Social-Emotional Learning
Specific strategies for building SEL skills
Want to learn more or get a training scheduled? Contact Alisa today at akedconsult@gmail.com.
Contact me today for more information on scheduling and pricing. All trainings can be done in-person or virtually and are customizable to fit your schools’ needs and budget. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to bring this critical professional development to your staff! Check out my Facebook page here!Â
Course 2 of my new video series on Building a Trauma-Informed School launched yesterday on Teachers Pay Teachers! I’m excited to make the content I teach to schools all over the country accessible to educators at the click of a button and at an affordable price.
This series will break down the information I present in a full-day professional development into smaller, easy to watch chunks. Course 1 is already available and focuses on understanding the basics of trauma in our society, why schools should be trauma-informed and recognizing the characteristics of trauma in children of various age levels.
Course 2 dives into understanding the neuroscience of trauma – how traumatic experiences impact, and cause changes to, the brain that affect students in a learning environment. It covers the impact of trauma on learning, as well as a variety of mindfulness techniques that can be implemented in the classroom.
Course 3 will go live in the next two weeks. It will focus on the impact of trauma on behavior, trauma-informed classroom management strategies and assess the pros and cons of a variety of common classroom management systems.
At least one more course will follow and will include 10 strategies for building a more trauma-informed culture in the classroom.
Head on over to Teachers Pay Teachers and grab Course 2Â here!
PLAN YOUR WINTER & SPRING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS NOW!
If you’re looking for a comprehensive, relevant and highly engaging training to fill your winter and spring professional development days, check out the list of my most popular trainings below. All trainings are customizable to fit the needs and budgets of individual schools. Both in-person and virtual trainings are available.
How to Build a Trauma-Informed School
10 Strategies for Building a More Trauma-Informed Classroom Right Now
Understanding and Addressing Trauma in Students in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
De-Escalation Strategies for Kids
Mindfulness Strategies for Children
Secondary Trauma is Real: Self-Care Strategies for Educators
Now is the time to prepare your teachers with the strategies necessary to have a successful remainder of the school year. Read more here or contact me today to schedule your next professional development!
With so many schools making the decision to begin the year 100% virtually, many educators are feeling overwhelmed and anxious about the start of the school year. How will they build relationships with students? How will they meet the needs of all their students virtually? How will they prevent at-risk students from slipping through the cracks?
During this time, it’s critical for teachers to build trauma-informed VIRTUAL classrooms. Arguably, trauma-informed practices are just as important for virtual classrooms as they are for traditional classrooms.
Need a jumpstart? Check out my new infographic here for 10 easy-to-implement strategies!
Want to go even deeper? Contact me to learn more about a NEW training that will help educators build a trauma-informed virtual classroom.
See a preview of my Implementing Effective Professional Learning Communities professional development course here. Just click the link, then click Slide Show and play the preview. Be sure to turn your sound on!
Like what you see? Contact me today for a free phone consultation to learn more about how I can help your school.
So, I published a book yesterday. No big deal. Just kidding…it’s a very big deal (at least to me). For weeks, I’ve been working hard on turning my professional development presentation on Professional Learning Communities into an ebook, and yesterday, I uploaded it to Smashwords (an online ebook publisher and retailer), and it was accepted! Very soon (like later today), it will be available on Apple Books, Barnes and Noble and several other online bookstores. Eventually, it will be available on the holy grail of online shopping…Amazon.
I’m super excited to share it with you all. Head over to the Smashwords site to check it out. As a bonus, if you use the coupon code KZ56Z, you can get it for 50% off through October 19, 2019. That makes it only two bucks, and you can download it to just about any device you own and in a variety of formats.
Stay tuned because I already have my next book idea, and I’m excited to get started writing!
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