Workshops & Professional Development for Schools & Staff

This one-hour presentation is designed to help caretakers better understand anxiety and how it may show up through behavior during learning and daily routines. It provides a developmental overview of anxiety, explains how the brain interprets and responds to anxious feelings, and offers practical, easy-to-use strategies to support children at home. The goal is to promote compassionate, student-centered approaches that view behavior as communication, empowering families to respond in calming, supportive, and effective ways.

An overview of the science of motivation to provide educators with an understanding of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivators. Learn concrete strategies for making schoolwork motivating, supporting your students to develop a growth mindset, and helping children learn to work towards goals.

Meet with our Learning Consultant, Kathy Tyler, who will guide educators on how to support struggling readers. Educators may bring examples of how their students struggle with reading.

We grow up learning about our body's 5 senses, but did you know we actually have eight senses? This workshop will introduce you to interoception: our ability to notice body signals, connect to a feeling, and utilize a self-regulation strategy. Without interoception, true self-regulation cannot take place.

This one-hour presentation offers practical, easy-to-implement strategies to support children's executive functioning skills, such as organization, time management, and impulse control. Tailored for caretakers, it emphasizes consistency in home environments to help students thrive. Caretakers will leave with ready-to-use tools, visual supports, and real-life examples to make daily learning smoother and more successful.

What supports positive behavior outcomes? This workshop will help educators better understand how to achieve increased compliance and attention to learning. Educators may share examples of behavior concerns and the context in which they occur.

We grow up learning about our body's 5 senses, but did you know we actually have eight senses? This workshop will review interoception: our ability to notice body signals, connect to a feeling, and utilize a self-regulation strategy.

We ALL have a sensory profile. As adults, most of us have developed an “owner’s manual” to cope with sensory likes and dislikes. Our children may not yet understand their sensations or emotions, be able to communicate their likes and dislikes, and have little control over their environments (adults set the schedule, menu, clothes, temperature). Helping our children be calm, attentive, and flexible requires bottom-up body strategies (e.g. sleep, nutrition, sensory input), as well as top-down brain strategies (communication, organization)... and good detective work! Come learn how to better understand your child, and strategies to set-up for sensory-success!

Teaching emotion concepts is important, but regulation begins before we even develop words! This workshop explores both top-down (language strategies), and bottom-up strategies to CONNECT to my body, my experience, and my people in order to manage my big feelings.

This in service will explain the underlying skills required for children to learn printing and how pre printing skills develop. The presenter will review a range of printing programs for younger students and elementary aged students.

What supports positive behavior outcomes? This workshop will help educators better understand how to achieve increased compliance and attention to learning. Educators may share examples of behavior concerns and the context in which they occur.