Professional Development
Your time is precious. For educators, teachers, social workers, school administrators, and parents and caregivers, time spent in professional development should feel valuable and relevant in the real world of homes, classrooms, and schools. Our workshops are hands-on, experiential, and brain-science based, building on your strengths and wisdom. These programs are practical, engaging, and fun, just like the educational spaces we aim to create for kids. Adults leave our programs inspired to shift their lenses and work with young people differently. They see immediate results and feel motivated to create learning environments where all kids feel connected and encouraged.
Trauma-Responsive Practices Workshops
REIMAGINING RESILIENCE 1:
Using a Trauma Lens
Interactive workshop
COST
$4,500
SUBSIDY
$500
FEE
$4,000
4 HOURS Flexible Scheduling Available + Supplemental Resources
- Learn about the impact of trauma on young people, so that you can build positive relationships to help them learn and thrive
- Explore the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) on developing brains and student behavior
- Practice tools for increasing self-regulation for yourself and young people you serve
- Develop skills to make sure every child knows that they matter
REIMAGINING RESILIENCE 2:
Developing Firmness Tools
Interactive workshop
COST
$4,500
SUBSIDY
$500
FEE
$4,000
4 HOURS Flexible Scheduling Available + Supplemental Resources
- Learn about the brain’s response to stress, and how you can create an environment of safety and connection, which is foundational for learning
- Explore a variety of connected and firm responses that improve relationships and empower adults and young people
- Identify and practice strategies for joint problem-solving, repairing mistakes, and making agreements with young people
- Explore how to build awareness and advocate on behalf of young people who have experienced trauma
Classroom Leadership
ROOTED RELATIONSHIPS:
Growing Equitable Elementary Classroom Communities
Interactive workshop
COST
$16,000
SUBSIDY
$2,000
FEE
$14,000
15-HOUR WORKSHOP (throughout school year)
- Explore ways to create an environment where students are engaged in learning, contribute to problem-solving, and help build their own community
- Gain tools to set-up and consistently hold effective problem-solving class meetings
- Understand behavior as communication so that you can respond to challenging behavior
- Apply a trauma-responsive lens so that you can better understand and handle classroom challenges
- Strengthen your own self-regulation and co-regulation skills
ROOTED RELATIONSHIPS:
Growing Equitable Secondary Classroom Communities
Interactive workshop
COST
$16,000
SUBSIDY
$2,000
FEE
$14,000
15-HOUR WORKSHOP (throughout school year)
- Discover strategies to increase student voice and agency in the classroom and share power with young people
- Gain tools to set-up and consistently hold effective problem-solving class meetings in and advisory or homeroom setting
- Interpret behavior as communication so that you can respond to challenging behavior
- Apply a trauma-responsive lens so that you can better address both group and individual challenges and foster a supportive, inclusive environment
- Use brain science to gain deeper understanding of the adolescent brain and to implement techniques for improving regulation and engagement among students
Systems Coaching and Consulting
Many of us were raised on punishment and rewards. These harmful tools interrupt learning and perpetuate trauma for adults and children. They are also baked into our policies, procedures, and systems. Our dedicated team coaches adults to shift their perspective and practice, reframing how they see and address challenging behavior. Over time, we partner with you to build equitable, effective systems that center the students you serve.
DATA TEAM CONSULTING
Monthly Consultations
COST
$14,000
SUBSIDY
$1,500
FEE
$12,500
60-MINUTE CONSULTATIONS (throughout school year)
- A representative team from the school meets monthly to look at school-wide discipline data. The team identifies patterns, defines problems and goals and develops trauma-informed, school-wide interventions.
- Discipline referrals are viewed information to help identify systems that aren’t working or lagging skills for adults or young people.
- The team evaluates the impact and effectiveness of implementation on improving school climate and changing student behavior.
- This team becomes effective, school change-agents.
TIER 3 CONSULTING
Monthly Consultations
* Included with Data Team; additional available
COST
$0
SUBSIDY
$600
FEE
$0
60-MINUTE CONSULTATIONS (throughout school year)
- Tier 3 Consultations: support for an educator (and applicable colleagues) to use a strengths-based protocol to change outcomes for students who are struggling the most to connect, belong and engage in learning and community.
MTSS PROCESS FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
10 to 12-week process
COST
$6,500
(per two grade levels)
SUBSIDY
$500
FEE
$6,000
FOUR 90-MINUTE CONSULTATIONS (over 12 weeks)
- Engage in a collaborative process to assess the social emotional strengths and growth areas of their students
- Access to Sound Discipline’s strengths-based Social Emotional Screener tool and Menu of Tiered SEL Interventions
- Learn strategies to implement Tier 1 social emotional skill building
- Develop customized plans to support individual students
- Build school’s capacity for social emotional learning at all levels