UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
March 5, 2025
UNH Teacher PD
Virtual Workshop: Re-Thinking Discipline with Restorative Practices
Traditional discipline practices have been proven unsuccessful in changing behaviors, but teachers and administrators are left not knowing what or how to discipline in effective ways.
This workshop will explore restorative practices that view discipline as teachable moments such as using:
Reflection
Restorative Circles
Reteaching, Restitution
Repairing Repairing Relationships
and Logical Consequences
Learn what these practices look like in practice, how to structure them, and how to implement them at the Tier I, II, and III levels so boundaries and responses to student behaviors are clear. There will be opportunities to collaborate, work through scenarios, and apply the content to your setting so you leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow.
February 7, 2025
UNH Teacher PD
Virtual Workshop: Practical Classroom Strategies for Executive Functioning
Learn what the latest research says about ADHD and Executive Functioning in children to better understand the impacts in the classroom such as working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self regulation/inhibition.
You will walk away with practical, evidence based strategies to improve these areas and specifically improve attending, organizing/planning, task initiation, managing emotions, and self-monitoring.
Since many other students often struggle with various executive functioning due to trauma, anxiety, or disabilities, these strategies can be applied for a variety of populations.
April 9, 2025
UNH Teacher PD
In-Person Portsmouth Workshop: Building Resiliency Skills
Many of our students lack resilience and are unable to persevere when things get difficult or recover from setbacks. The fear of failure is often what impacts student performance beyond just raising their hand or taking tests and also affects how they perceive themselves, work with others, and problem solve obstacles. With the high percentage of students affected by trauma, or the increase of anxiety in the classroom, youth just aren't taking risks like they used to.
This course will delve into what the research says about resilience and offer environmental and instructional strategies to increase risk taking and perseverance.
Learn how to structure group activities that push students to collaborate, fail and recover, think out of the box, problem solve, reflect, and give and accept feedback. The structure of these activities align with CASEL core competency areas, can be easily applied to content related classes, and the skills transferred to various settings.
Come ready to move, play, and take home group activities that you can implement in your classroom tomorrow.
April 19, 2025
NEA-NH
Educational Support Professional Conference 2025
Concord, NH
Come join us for a day of specially designed workshops for support professionals. Choose your own workshops to attend throughout the day.
Mine will be:
Understanding SEL Disorders, Practical Strategies for Executive Functioning, Re-Thinking Discipline, and/or Building Resilience
Link to Sign Up Coming Shortly
May 7, 2025
UNH Teacher PD
Virtual Workshop: Trauma Informed Instruction
Trauma informed practices in instruction benefit all students and can be a universal approach that's easier to implement than you think. Learn about the research behind trauma and toxic stress and how it affects the brain and learning/behaviors in order to recognize the signs and symptoms, so we can shift our mindset and how we're perceiving challenges.
Build your toolbox of practical classroom and schoolwide strategies to clearly identify and remove barriers to student success, teach and model coping skills, and build connections with even the most difficult students. Re-think traditional discipline procedures and move towards a focus on restorative practices and repairing relationships. You will walk away with evidence based practices that you can implement in your classroom the very next day.
UNH Teacher PD (virtual): Video and Peer Modeling to Teach SEL Skills
Peer models and video modeling are effective tools in teaching students social/emotional related skills because they provide the visual of what to do combined with the script of what to say in student friendly ways. Peer modeling allows students to practice their skills while also helping others and leaves students feeling empowered, connected, and more accountable. Video modeling can be a tool in helping students learn skills in real life contexts and scenarios that are meaningful. This workshop will show you how to structure the use of video modeling and peer modeling to teach, practice, and build social emotional skills in the CASEL Competencies of Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making. Learn how to implement these at the Tier I level to teach whole class expectations such as how to agree/disagree constructively, accept feedback, and what group work looks like as well as at the Tier III level to teach student goals such as “reading the room,” reframing negative self-talk, or using replacement/coping strategies. There will be opportunities to collaborate, work through scenarios, and apply the content to your setting so you leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow.
NHSAA 2023 Best Practices in SEL Conference
Sarah is presenting 2 sessions on Re-Thinking Discipline
UNH Teacher PD (virtual) Workshop: Trauma Informed Instruction
Build your toolbox of practical classroom and schoolwide strategies to clearly identify and remove barriers to student success, teach and model coping skills, and build connections with even the most difficult students. Re-think traditional discipline procedures and move towards a focus on restorative practices and repairing relationships. You will walk away with evidence based practices that you can implement in your classroom the very next day.