This dynamic training (October 30, November 6, 13 and 20, 2014), appropriate for pre-K through Grade 12 educational staff, will discuss the impact of trauma on brain development and the subjective world of anxious and traumatized students. Learn how you can create a supportive, trauma-informed classroom climate, deescalate hard-to-handle behaviors and the core components of a trauma-informed, brain-based classroom.
Session One: The Brain and Nervous System’s Impact on Learning and Behavior (October… Show more 30)
Using numerous examples, video segments and demonstrations, learn about the anatomy of fear, how anxiety and trauma negatively impact the brain creating learning and behavioral challenges in the classroom. Discover how misleading behaviors can be, the importance of self-regulating challenging hyper/hyper arousal behaviors. Experience first-hand how traumatized students respond to our verbal communications and how one teacher used this information and saw her at-risk students excel academically and regulate their challenging behaviors. See how one of the worst schools in Boston, a dropout factory, used one core principle to see the fastest student improvement statewide.
Session Two: Restorative Rooms, Minimizing Disciplinary Actions, Values and Beliefs (November 6)
This session begins with restorative discipline – those trauma-informed brain-based actions to return students to their classroom rather than initiate disciplinary action/out-of-school suspension. Learn how other schools are using restorative resource rooms to reduce disciplinary action associated with dysregulated students. Examine the importance of establishing trauma-informed core values and beliefs, how we must reevaluate the direct transmission view of learning and expand on the constructivist view . See how one of the worst schools in the state became one of the best, 70% of students were not testing at their grade level and are now excelling. It wasn’t about changing the curriculum. Discover the mindsets needed to support trauma-informed, brain-based teacher-student relationships.
Sessions Three and Four: Putting It All Together – Multiple Strategies and Practices (November 13 and 20)
Identify what constitutes an optimal trauma-informed brain-based classroom environment, the importance of up and down activities, how the nervous system reacts to transitions and how we can help regulate these reactions with the use of relational imprinting, time in versus time out . Discover the importance of mirror neurons, micro-expressions and micro-connectors. Determine your own self-regulation needs, learn the value of body scanning, how not to listen. Discover the Lassie twist, the sandwich script and other helpful responses with dysregulated students. Identify what you would do to prevent an angry student from putting his fist through a glass door, the use of wellness cards and more. The final session ends with a briefing to help identify the strategies you will initiate.
Register for one, two, three or four sessions. The trainings are sequential; you will better understand Session Two if you attend Session One. Please register for each session individually. All are welcome to attend. This training, valued at over $500 per person, is free. If you would like to purchase pizza for dinner, please bring $5 the night of the training.
Training is offered by the founder and international trainer for Starr Commonwealth’s TLC Institute, Dr. Bill Steele. Financial support for this training is provided by United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region.
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