PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SUPPORTING STUDENTS
Trauma-Informed & Brain-Aligned Practices
Toxic Stress, ACEs & Trauma
Participants will deepen their understanding of how stress can impact individuals both positively and negatively, explore the ACE survey and its connection to long-term health outcomes, and gain insight into how trauma may manifest in school settings and affect student learning.
Trauma-Responsive Classroom
Participants will build confidence in supporting students experiencing dysregulation, understand the critical role of relationships and co-regulation in promoting well-being and academic success, and gain practical strategies—including daily routines like the Re-Set process—to meet the diverse needs of learners.
Trauma-Responsive Schools
Participants will deepen their understanding of how stress and trauma affect educational settings, examine key paradigm shifts needed to create trauma-responsive environments, and explore actionable steps to foster healing and resilience at both individual and systemic levels.
De-Escalation:
The Power of Relationships
Participants will recognize the importance of felt-safety in effective de-escalation, explore the principles of NEAR Science and its impact on both educators and students, increase awareness of the need for self-regulation to support student regulation, and gain targeted strategies to address the diverse needs of learners.
Impacts of Trauma on the Brain
Participants will expand their understanding of stress and trauma, gain foundational knowledge of brain and autonomic nervous system structures and their influence on learning and relationships, analyze how developmental trauma and nervous system dysregulation shape worldview, and reflect on their broader impacts on student learning and well-being.
Executive Function
Participants will develop a clear understanding of executive functions and how challenges in this area present, examine the impact of executive function difficulties on educational outcomes, and acquire targeted strategies to support both individual students and entire classrooms.
SUPPORTING STAFF
Building Wellness & Sustainable Practice
Boundaries and Burnout
Prevention
Participants will identify key indicators of stress and burnout among staff, understand the importance of completing the stress cycle to promote well-being, and strengthen their ability to set healthy boundaries for self-preservation.
Structures to Support Educator
Well-Being
Participants will identify key indicators of stress and burnout among staff, understand the importance of completing the stress cycle to promote well-being, and strengthen their ability to set healthy boundaries for self-preservation.
Neurosequential Model in Education:
What Happened to You?
Participants will identify key indicators of stress and burnout among staff, understand the importance of completing the stress cycle to promote well-being, and strengthen their ability to set healthy boundaries for self-preservation.
Student Support Team
Structures / MTSS
Administrators and leadership teams will engage in a comprehensive review of their current systems to identify both strengths and areas for growth, collaboratively establish a shared vision for their school community, conduct data-driven analyses of academic performance, attendance patterns, and behavioral trends, and develop a strategic, outcomes-oriented framework to guide the implementation of intentional, evidence-based practices that elevate student success and organizational effectiveness.
Suicide Awareness
and Prevention
Participants will understand their role in implementing evidence-informed best practices for suicide prevention in schools, recognize warning signs and reflect on personal biases, learn how to respond effectively to support student safety, and increase their awareness of the procedures and supports that follow a report.