SAVE THE DATE!
Brightways Learning’s annual Building Connections professional learning event returns to the Alyeska Resort on November 2-3, 2024. Hope to see you there!
Brightways Learning is offering two opportunities to earn Montana Professional Learning Units for educators on October 17-18, 2024.
Don’t miss our 5th Annual Educators’ Confluence on June 13-14, 2024!
Embark on this transformative journey to ignite your resiliency and empower your students to THRIVE! Learn More>>
Join us for our fourth annual RISE Challenge Big Sky Summit!
Montana students have been working hard on their environmental projects to improve community resilience to natural disasters. The finalists will present their projects for the chance to win cash prizes at the Summit in Missoula, MT, on April 30, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Brightways Learning’s Education Director, Lisa Kerscher, will be presenting at the Montana Indian Education Association on April 17th and April 19th.
Join us for an interactive session where we will explore the Full-Color Webs of Support™ framework, an innovative approach that strengthens your existing Multi-Tiered System of Support and cultivates a safe and supportive school community .
We are presenting! Our Resiliency Director, David “Pav” Pavish will be facilitating two presentations for the National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference in Savannah, GA on March 4-5, 2024.
We are presenting! Our Resiliency Director, Amy Killian, will present at the Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference in Dallas, TX, on February 19, 2024. Educators frequently think about student engagement and resilience but don’t often receive the time and support to focus on their own. During this highly interactive and self-reflective session, you will get that opportunity!
We are presenting! Learn how Superintendent, Bill Burr, is using our streamlined performance evaluation system, ClassBright Evaluate, to transform Wrangell School District's evaluation process into a win-win collaborative reality. ClassBright Evaluate empowers educators, administrators, and, ultimately, students to reach their full potential.
This interactive learning event will elevate your self-awareness so you can create purposeful, calm, and safe environments where everyone feels respected and supported. You will receive insight into neuroscience and will explore research-driven concepts and skills that can help you cope with stress, improve your relationships, and live more fulfilling lives. During this two-day workshops you will learn ready-to-apply strategies and trauma-informed practices. Learn more>>
Connection matters! Young people today are growing up in a world that is very different from the one their parents and grandparents grew up in. Engaging with today's youth is more important than ever before. They are the future leaders of our world, and we need to invest in their success. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower youth to reach their potential and thrive in school and life! Learn more>>
Montana Educators: Earn up to 4 OPI Renewal Units October 19-20, 2023!
Our two-hour virtual workshops will be interactive and fun with learning you can apply immediately with your students. Wherever you live in Montana, don’t miss out — register now for one or both PD offerings!
Workshop #1: Exploring Natural Disasters - What, Why & How?
Workshop #2: Engaging Learners for Real-World Science & Civic Action
Gather with other PreK-12 educators, administrators, counselors, and school staff to learn, connect, and rejuvenate! Gain valuable strategies to support both your own and your students’ resilience, well-being, and learning.
This year's event will feature interactive sessions, deep-dive breakouts, ready-to-apply strategies, and quality time to connect with facilitators and colleagues.
You will leave feeling refreshed and excited about the new school year! Learn more and register>>
Join us for our third annual RISE Challenge Big Sky Summit!
Montana students have been working hard on their environmental projects to improve community resilience to natural disasters. The finalists will present their projects for the chance to win cash prizes at the Summit in Missoula, MT, on May 3, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
We all know that meaningful connections with our students are vital, but how do you actually establish connection? What tangible things can you do? And what are the limitations and boundaries that must be factored in? If these questions resonate with you, then this video is for you! We will address some states’ professional boundary guidelines and then dive into strategies, activities, and ideas to help build connections with youth!
You can access the recording of this webinar here.
Often when we hear that relationships are important we see it as fluff and not science. Not anymore! Research shows that our mental health is directly connected to our healthy relationships. Gain tools and new understanding about how our healthy connections to peers, and the students we work with, grow our own mental health allowing us and the students we care about to thrive. Learn more and register>>
Connection matters! Join us for this 2-day professional development event to learn ready-to-apply strategies and trauma-informed practices.
This workshop will enable you to help youth to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. The Full-Color Webs of Support™ framework’s strength-based principles and practices will equip you with tools to support youth to recognize, appreciate, and amplify their unique talents and characteristics while decreasing negative behaviors. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower youth to reach their potential and achieve their dreams! Learn more and register>>
We are presenting at the MFPE Conference in Helena! Join us for three sessions:
Creating Resilient Youth: The Power of Webs of Support - October 20 | 8:00-9:50 AM
Engaging Learners for Real-World Science & Civics Action - October 20 | 1:00-2:50 PM
Exploring Natural Disasters - What, Why & How - October 21 | 9:00-10:50 AM
Connection matters! This interactive learning event offers two 2-day workshops to learn ready-to-apply strategies and trauma-informed practices. Choose the workshop that best meets your needs:
Engaging Today’s Youth
Navigating the Nervous System for Relationships & Regulation
These engaging workshops will enable you to help youth to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. Learn more>>
A Connected School is a Safe School - August 10, 2022, 10:00-11:30 am, Butte, Montana.
During this engaging session, participants will learn how adult-student connections, neuroscience strategies, and trauma responsiveness lead to youth resilience, improved school climate, and wellbeing for all. Together, we will discover how a responsive, interconnected system of support results in feelings of belonging and safety for all in your school community. Learn More>>
Are you a K-12 educator feeling a little INSIDE OUT?
Since early 2020, schools and communities have had to constantly juggle ever-shifting expectations, conditions, and capacities. Human systems - internal and external - are feeling frayed and disconnected. What are we going to do about it?
Join us at the Educators’ Confluence, where we will blend purpose with play. You’ll actively reflect on and strengthen the connection with your emotional and neural systems that support healthy relationships. You’ll gain insights into how you can apply neuroscience and healthy, supportive relationship strategies in life. You’ll leave feeling refreshed, resilient, and excited about the new school year! Learn More and Register>>>
Recharge from school year stress & fuel up with fresh resiliency strategies!
Educators and students alike have suffered trauma & stress that affects them emotionally, behaviorally, physically, and cognitively. This highly engaging PD experience will boost your knowledge & skills to ensure resiliency for yourself, your colleagues, and your students. Learn more and register>>
Join us for our second annual RISE Challenge Big Sky Summit!
Montana students have been working hard on their environmental projects to improve community resilience to natural disasters, and the finalists will present their projects for the chance to win cash prizes at the Summit in Missoula, MT on April 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Building Resilience: Connection Matters! - April 14, 2022, 10:00-11:00 a.m. PDT
Nonprofits have expressed the critical need to mitigate anxiety, stress, and trauma caused by the pandemic - especially for your clients, but also to build resilience for yourselves and your staff.
This session will demonstrate how positive and dynamic support systems provide protective factors and optimize mental and behavioral health outcomes, both short-term and long-term.
Participants will learn a durable common language and stronger connectedness that instills lasting resilience.
Learn more and register for the What IF Conference!
Connection matters! Join us for this 2-day professional development event to learn ready-to-apply strategies and trauma-informed practices:
Creating Resilient Youth: The Power of Webs of Support
This workshop will enable you to help youth to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. The Full-Color Webs of Support™ framework’s strength-based principles and practices will equip you with tools to support youth to recognize, appreciate, and amplify their unique talents and characteristics while decreasing negative behaviors. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower youth to reach their potential and achieve their dreams! Learn more and register>>
Connections Matter: Mitigate Trauma with Full-Color Web of Support Framework - February 21st from 4:00-5:00 p.m. CST | Presenters: Amy McDonald & Shawna Young
The Full-Color Web of Support™ framework delivers an easily accessible innovation that helps anyone understand how the various dynamic factors in a young person's developmental ecology work together and strengthen resilience to trauma. Combining the vast wealth of prominent research that's been done - and being done - in youth development, its promising practices provide a strengths-based, equitable, and comprehensive approach with measurable components. During this session, discover how youth - with voice and choice, alongside adults, can actively and intentionally build personal, responsive Webs of Support that form stronger positive social networks and increase protective factors.
Resilient Educators - Growing Your Best Self - December 3rd, 9:30-11:30 a.m. EST
This interactive and engaging workshop will help raise the personal and professional satisfaction and well-being of teachers. Participants will learn to amplify their strengths, develop resilience-building skills, practice self-care strategies, and more.
Connection matters! Join us for these 2-day professional development events to learn ready-to-apply strategies and trauma-informed practices. You can attend in-person in Anchorage or virtually on Zoom.
Resilient Youth: Connection Matters
Fortifying Student Resilience with Full-Color Web Coaching
These workshops will enable you to help youth to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. The strength-based principles and practices of the Full-Color Web of Support Framework™ will equip you with tools to support students so they can recognize, appreciate, and amplify their unique talents and characteristics while decreasing negative behaviors. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower youth to reach their potential and achieve their dreams! Learn more & register>>
Educators regularly think about student resilience but don't often get the time and support to focus on their own. During this engaging and interactive PD experience, you will learn to amplify your personal and professional strengths and satisfaction.
You will also reflect on your own Web of Support inside and outside of school, and you will discover the dynamic balancing act between those two Webs.
You will leave feeling rejuvenated, with a fresh perspective to further boost your resiliency, and with new skills to increase student learning.
See the event flyer.
Registration - $150. The registration fee covers a full day of hands-on training and materials.
No one person can support the social-emotional health of your students and staff! Wellbeing for a school is about creating a system of support that consists of all staff and students. A customized systemic approach to resilience is within your reach and a necessity! Our Resilient Educators facilitation team will provide you with new tools, expertise, and opportunities to work together to launch a Full-Color Web of Support school and/or district. Be ready to reflect on what you’re already doing - such as understanding neuroscience, trauma-responsiveness, character development, quality relationships, etc. Then, using what you know and exploring new perspectives, you’ll strategically re-design your practices to improve student and staff engagement. You’ll leave looking at your school through a new lens and with an actionable plan for creating a Web of Support school. Bringing a team is highly encouraged!
