Professional Development & Trainings

Anti-Bias Training: During this training we focus on the basics of recognizing your own biases and how these biases might impact your work with other teachers/staff, students, and families. The training encourages staff to examine social, economic, and cultural factors that impact their work with others.

Self Care in the Workplace: Working in a school is hard! This training focuses on strategies for taking care of yourself and supports teachers and school staff in making a plan for taking care of themselves in order to show up as the best version of themselves for their students.

Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children - What to Look For and When to Refer: This training covers the basics of mood and anxiety disorders in children including behaviors to look out for and when to refer a child or family for ongoing mental health support. 

Understanding Child Development and the Autism Spectrum: This training supports school staff in recognizing common behaviors of children on the Autism spectrum, strategies to help support these students in class, as well as resources for additional support outside of the classroom.

Responding to Difficult Behavior in the Classroom: This training focuses on skills for teachers and staff to respond to a wide range of common difficult behaviors that we see from students in the classroom.

Understanding and Supporting Executive Functioning Differences: Recognizing and understanding ADHD and other executive functioning differences in children. Developing strategies to help children with executive functioning differences feel supported and improve their success in school.

Having Hard Conversations with Parents - the SLOWLY method: This training provides school staff with strategies for creating open communication and partnership with parents. The training covers topics like when school staff and parents disagree about what a child needs, bringing up uncomfortable topics, and when to ask for help when working with a family. 

Starting School - Supporting Children and Parents Through Separation: Beginning school can be a stressful and anxiety provoking time for both children and families. Understanding the factors which make this separation difficult and learning strategies to support children and their families through this transition can help reduce the stress children, families and schools experience through this process.

Working with Immigrant Families: This training focuses on the best practices for working with families who have recently immigrated to the US and/or are from a different cultural background from teachers and staff.

Have a Training in Mind That you Don’t See Here? We are happy to collaborate with you in creating a tailored training program utilizing our diverse experience and expertise.