School Social Work and Mental health Professionals Learning Events
TEACHING EMPATHY AND OTHER ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS
5/17/2017 (4:00 – 7:30pm)
Human beings are hard-wired for only a few emotions. Join us for a workshop that helps us understand how we must learn and teach emotional capacities for empathy, compassion, and more. Participants will leave with numerous strategies and techniques for teaching empathy and other essential emotional responses that have been shown to reduce aggression. This workshop is facilitated by Julie McDaniel.
BUILDING EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS
5/18/17 (8:30am-3:30pm)
Facilitated by Bryan Dean & Mary Perfitt-Nelson
This professional learning experience is part of a comprehensive effort to address student engagement. Relationships are paramount for engagement. Most important are student's relationships with teachers, their school and their learning. The morning will be related to motivation, engagement and teaching for engagement. The afternoon we will unpack Robyn Jackson's book entitled: "How To Motivate Reluctant Learners" to learn how to intervene with and support unengaged students. There will be plenty of conversation and opportunity to grow learning around student engagement.
TEACHING CHILDREN IN POVERTY: HARNESSING THE POWER OF CHANGING BRAINS AND MAXIMIZING IMPACT
5/15/2017 (8:30 am-3:00pm) at Macomb ISD
Children in poverty have different brains than their middle and upper socioeconomic peers. This research finding has significant implications on teaching and learning in our schools and classrooms. However, research on the human brain continues to highlight the natural ability of our brains to change through a process called neural plasticity. What is even more exciting is the latest brain research on how important classroom environments are in facilitating positive change for students who grow up in impoverished environments. Quite simply put, our DNA is not our destiny. As educators, our main focus is how to translate this research into classroom practice, especially for those students that are wired differently? Good news! This jaw-dropping workshop will look at the key components and the "must haves" for creating an enriched learning environment and positively influencing the learning outcomes of students in poverty. Participants will develop an understanding of what enrichment is and how it can influence teaching and learning. What school-level, classroom-level, and teacher-level factors cause the greatest change in student outcomes? How do you create an enriched environment for every student, each and every day? School psychologists will not want to miss this highly active, empowering, and motivating workshop. Walk away with dozens of ideas and strategies ready to be to put into action!
AFTER THE CRISIS: TRAUMATIC EVENT CRISIS INTERVENTION PLANNING (TECIP)
5/10/2017-5/11/2017 (8:30-3:30)
This 2-Day Course introduces protocols that offer building/district crisis response teams a proven structure to stabilize the aftermath situation, mobilize resources, and other important techniques after the school crisis. Oakland Schools sponsors this powerful PL which is facilitated by Jennifer Haddow and Mike Markowitz from the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC).
Note: You must attend both days to earn credits.
YOUTH MENTAL
HEALTH FIRST AID
6/6/17 (8:00am-4:30pm) 8/1/17 (8:00am-4:30pm)
Youth Mental Health First Aid USA is an 8 hour public education program which introduces participants to the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adolescents, builds understanding of the importance of early intervention, and teaches individuals how to help an adolescent in crisis or experiencing a mental health challenge. Mental Health First Aid uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis; select interventions and provide initial help; and connect young people to professional, peer, social, and self-help care.
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