Adolescent Girls
Presentation Title:
Adolescent Girls: Fostering Courage, Strength, and Compassion
Presentation Description: Participants gain an understanding of how adolescent girls make moral choices and how those choices affect their relationships. Susan explains the transition from girl to woman and the implications for moral development, the power behind the media, and its role in molding young women.
Because relationships and connectedness are so important to females, they will often conform to society’s expectations rather than stick up for their true selves. Susan addresses how to be positive role models for girls, key issues in their relationships, and how our social environment shapes their attitudes. Participants will learn practical skills and strategies to assist girls to be strong and peaceful and to become clear, focused, and centered.
Preferred Program Length: 2½ hours
Target Audience: Parents, teachers, and others who work with youth
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Grades 6-12
Anger Management
Presentation Title:
Transforming Anger to Personal Power
Presentation Description: What do you do when student anger disrupts classrooms and learning? How do we help students to manage anger in a positive, proactive way? In this workshop you will learn to identify and implement strategies in the classroom or a group session to teach youth to manage anger. These strategies teach youth to be proactive rather than re-active in stressful, provoking situations.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to full day
Target Audience: School counselors
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Can be customized for grades 1 through 12 or can focus specifically on grades 6 through 12; if the presentation focuses on older students, the role of substance abuse is discussed with regards to anger management.
Campus Culture
Presentation Title:
Workplace Bullying: How to Deal with the Anger AND the Difficult People
Presentation Description: Does the typical image of the schoolyard bully truly capture the reality of bullying in the workplace and society? Have you ever walked away from a situation with a gut feeling that something was wrong, but you couldn’t put your finger on it? Were you the victim of a bully? Do you see colleagues and co-workers struggle with this issue? In this dynamic, interactive workshop, you will gain an understanding of what bullying is and action ‘thoughts’ and techniques to deal with the anger and the difficult people.
Preferred Program Length: 1½ – 2 hours
Target Audience: General audience
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Adult Audiences
Co-Teaching
Presentation Title:
Co-Teaching: Beyond Discussing Theory and Benefits!
Presentation Description: Review the five models of co-teaching and how each model might be implemented using content area examples. Learn how to decide which models to use and the benefits and challenges of each model. Learn how Station Teaching reaches ALL learners.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to full day
Target Audience: General and special educators, as well as principals and teachers-in-training; this session is appropriate for participants in all stages of learning about and implementing inclusive practices
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels
Differentiated Instruction
Presentation Title:
Differentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention Strategy Blast
Presentation Description: “Good for all, critical for different learners” is the motto of this interactive workshop. Whether students are gifted, at-risk, on a 504 plan, or have special needs, participants will leave this workshop with realistic strategies to differentiate instruction. You will learn how these strategies tie in to Tier One and Tier Two Response to Intervention guidelines. The techniques work for ALL students, whether academically gifted or different learners. What is learned in the workshop today can be used in the classroom tomorrow.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to full day
Target Audience: General classroom teachers, special educators, and specialists in the classroom
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels
Presentation Title:
Increase Student Success by Building Vocabulary with Fun, Effective Strategies.
Presentation Description: Promote better grades, higher test scores and improved reading comprehension through a passionate focus on building vocabulary. Vocabulary is the single biggest indicator of success.
This workshop focuses on how to help youth build better vocabularies using fun, effective strategies and tools.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs
Target Audience: General and special educators, as well as principals and teachers-in-training; this session is appropriate for participants in all stages of learning about and implementing inclusive practices
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels
Inclusion Classroom
Presentation Title:
Effective Strategies and Techniques for the Multi-Ability Classroom
Presentation Description: “Good for all, critical for students with special needs” is the motto of this workshop. Whether students are gifted, at-risk, on a 504 plan, or have special needs, participants will leave this workshop with realistic strategies and techniques to enhance learning. The strategies work for ALL students, whether they are academically gifted or “different” learners. What is learned in the workshop today can be used in the classroom tomorrow.
Preferred Program Length: 2½ hours
Target Audience: General classroom teachers, special educators, paraprofessionals, and other specialists who work with students
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Grades K – 12
Presentation Title:
Memorization and Test Taking Strategies in the Inclusive Classroom for Grades 1-12
Presentation Description: Participants will leave this interactive workshop with realistic strategies to foster memory in the classroom for all learners and to bypass memory issues for students with learning difficulties. We will discuss concrete instructional strategies that assist students with special needs, at-risk learners, and average test performers in the general classroom with short- and long-term memory. What is learned in the workshop today can be used in the classroom tomorrow.
Preferred Program Length: 2 hours (time slot flexible)
Target Audience: General classroom teachers and special educators with beginner-to-intermediate levels of experience with inclusion
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Grades 1 – 12
Paraprofessional Strategies
Presentation Title:
Increasing the Effectiveness of Paraprofessionals: Behavior Management
Presentation Description: Gain proactive, positive ways for paraprofessionals to handle problem behavior. Use scripts for managing behavior through planned response rather than reaction and concrete strategies for dealing with lack of focus, fidgeting, and re-direction without disturbing the rest of the class.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to 2 hours
Target Audience: General classroom teachers and special educators, as well as teachers in training and school administrators; those in fully inclusive classrooms as well as those who are in the initial stages of learning about inclusion will benefit from this program
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels
Presentation Title:
Increasing the Effectiveness of Paraprofessionals: Roles, Hovering, Cueing, and More!
Presentation Description: Learn how to ensure that students respect all adults in the classroom and how to encourage student independence and relationships. Gain tools to assist paraprofessionals and teachers with defining roles, collecting data, collaborating on critical issues, and working effectively together.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to 2 hours
Target Audience: General classroom teachers and special educators, as well as teachers in training and school administrators; those in fully inclusive classrooms as well as those who are in the initial stages of learning about inclusion will benefit from this program
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels
Parenting
Presentation Title:
Please Help Me With My Homework! Strategies for Parents and Caregivers
Presentation Description: Help children finish homework assignments successfully! Get answers to questions that parents and people who care for elementary students often ask about homework. Learn simple strategies for memorizing facts, keeping learning fun, and ways to organize assignments so that they are manageable.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hours to 2 hours
Target Audience: Parents and other caregivers
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Elementary school
Presentation Title:
Umm Studying? What’s That? Learning Strategies for the Overwhelmed and Confused College and Secondary Education Student
Presentation Description: Get answers to questions that assist secondary education and college students to be successful in school and on tests. Learn simple strategies for memorizing facts, taking tests, and organizing assignments so they are manageable.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hours to 2 hours
Target Audience: Parents
Grade-Level Appropriateness: High school and college students
Response to Intervention
Presentation Title:
RTI Strategies for Secondary Teachers
Presentation Description: RTI in Grades 6-12: What’s a teacher to do? Acquire researched based, practical strategies and activities for RTI implementation to build an Intervention Bank for your RTI team and support classroom interventions at all three tiers. Gain examples of authentic assessments that identify students’ progress efficiently, accurately, and fairly.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to full day
Target Audience: General classroom teachers, special educators, and specialists in the classroom, school psychologists, adminstrators
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Grades 6-12
Safe & Drug Free Schools
Presentation Title:
Bullying: Understanding and Technique for All Ages
Presentation Description: Does the typical image of the schoolyard bully truly capture the reality of bullying in schools and society? Have you ever walked away from a situation with a gut feeling that something was wrong, but you couldn’t put your finger on it? Were you the victim of a bully? Do you see students in your classrooms struggle with this issue? In this dynamic, interactive workshop, you will gain an understanding of what bullying is and action ‘thoughts’ and techniques to address the problem.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to full day
Target Audience: General classroom teachers and special educators, as well as paraprofessionals and school administrators
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels
Presentation Title:
Character & Conflict Education: Bully Prevention in Caring Communities
Presentation Description: Children who don’t feel safe at school cannot achieve to their highest potential. Explore what’s necessary to successfully build caring communities and teach conflict education. Learn realistic skills and techniques to teach young people how to resolve conflict peacefully while maintaining a strong sense of self. Through brain compatible instruction, experiential exercises, and discussion, learn how to reduce bullying, build caring communities, reinforce empathy and resolve conflict.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs to full day
Target Audience: General Audience
Grade-Level Appropriateness: K-12
Presentation Title:
Gender Stereotypes and Conflict
Presentation Description: This workshop is designed to give a basic understanding of how gender stereotypes contribute to and reinforce relationship conflict. We will define stereotypes and discuss how people label each other based on appearances. We will examine how people’s attitudes and behaviors are based on how and where they were brought up.
We’ll learn that we do not have to accept the limits of stereotypes because we have the power to decide what makes sense for us. We will discuss how stereotypes destructively limit our potential.
Participants will evaluate attitudes, expectations and beliefs they grew up with regarding gender roles and learn how they create patterns of thinking that result in misunderstanding, anger and/or violence.
Preferred Program Length: 1 hour
Target Audience: General Audience
Grade-Level Appropriateness: Grades 6-12
Presentation Title:
Media: Impact on Children’s Moral Development
Presentation Description: Are we, by allowing our children to be exposed to violence on TV, movies, and video games, setting up an environment that physically changes the brain by making it ‘good at’ thinking violently? How is the media affecting our children’s brains? What can we do to counter media conditioning? Violence in the media is a problem with devastating consequences. Not only are our children being conditioned to think in terms of combat, to think of it as entertainment, and to accept it as normal, but there is also strong evidence indicating that it physically alters the brain. Learn what parents and educators can do to take action!
- Gain a general awareness of the physical effect of media violence on the brain.
- Gain an understanding of the possible long-term impact of media violence on our society.
- Learn what we can do to counter the effect of media violence
Media violence impacts the physical brain. Most people think its effect is purely psychological and minimize the danger it presents. An awareness of the physical impact is sobering and motivates people to take steps to address it.
Preferred Program Length: 2½ hours
Target Audience: Parents, teachers, and other adults who work with youth
Grade-Level Appropriateness: K-12
Stress Management
Presentation Title:
Finding Balance in Stressful Lives
Presentation Description: Stress is one of the most common words used today. How often do you hear the following: “I’m so stressed out.” “My students are stressing out.” “I wonder if my child is stressed about something.” What is stress? Where does it come from? How does stress affect the balance of our lives? What does it do to our memory? Student test scores? What can I do about stress? In this interactive workshop we will discuss these questions and discover options to help ourselves, our students and families understand and cope with stress.
Preferred Program Length: 1 ½ hrs – 3 hours
Target Audience: General classroom teachers, special educators, and paraprofessionals
Grade-Level Appropriateness: General Audience
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