Want to change the trajectory of the lives of children and youth? Then, you need to join us for this two-day professional development workshop hosted by Harlowton Public Schools in Harlowton, Montana on March 22-23, 2022!
Who should attend?
School counselors, teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals. Everyone from your district, school, and community is welcome. Earn 12 OPI Renewal Units (6 per day).
Creating Resilient Youth: The Power of Webs of Support
March 22-23, 2022
Connection matters! For youth to succeed in school and life, they need a network of caring, connected adults to guide and help them thrive amid life’s challenges.
Based on extensive social-emotional and trauma-responsive research, this professional development event will equip you with innovative tools to amplify each youth’s strengths and help them self-activate their complex system of support. You’ll learn how to help youth build protective factors to mitigate trauma and decrease risk behaviors, such as bullying, drugs, alcohol, suicidal ideation, and more.
Using a strengths-based approach, this event will enable you to recognize, appreciate, and magnify what is right about youth, assuring their chance to flourish.
During this interactive workshop, you will …
Day 1 - 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
✓Learn about the Full-Color Webs of Support™ framework to help students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.
✓Learn trauma-responsive practices that will encourage positive outcomes and decrease negative behaviors.
✓Explore how the human brain is wired for connection with others, and examine how neuroscience influences who we are and how we communicate and respond to the world around us.
✓Receive tools and practice tangible strategies for connecting with all students, including those with trauma and other challenges, to enable them to positively engage.
Day 2 - 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
✓Dive deep into the framework and practical strategies that can better regulate classroom communities.
✓Understand neuroscience you can use for cultivating regulations, relationships, and reasoning.
✓Balancing our brains: learn brain-based strategies for trauma-responsiveness.
✓Walk away with a playbook of activities and strategies you can use with your students to build regulation, relationships, and overall resilience school and district-wide.
Registration
The registration fee covers hands-on training and materials
$59 per day or $100 for both days. You will receive the most benefit by attending both days! This workshop qualifies for APR/ESSER funds.
10% discount when 3 or more register together.
Expert Facilitator
Amy McDonald has spent three decades in education in various roles, including administrator, lead teacher, and school counselor, largely serving in rural Alaskan schools. She has a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and a master’s in K-12 school counseling. Amy views schools from both the teacher and administrative perspectives, enabling her to see the “big picture” of situations and conditions, which has helped her co-develop and implement solutions throughout her school district and in supporting other districts. Amy especially loves advocating for and alongside her students, as well as her educator colleagues, understanding that the wellbeing of teachers and administrators models self-regulation for students and is the only authentic means of providing healthy support systems for the students they collectively serve. She is an outstanding and dynamic facilitator and recently presented multiple sessions at the National Youth at Risk Conference (newly named the National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference). Amy’s experiences, knowledge, and skills related to neuroscience, trauma-responsiveness, and social-emotional strategies that work individually and through the school and community systems are vital elements in her adept and valued support to her students and educator colleagues alike.
“(This workshop) had such a profound effect on me and the way I look at student support and how we all need to help them and support them. I always knew this, but you’ve opened my eyes even more. I can’t thank you enough.”