Student Culture
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Continuing the Dialogue: Restorative Practices in Schools
This training is a continuation of the introduction to restorative practices in schools and is designed to help school staff understand how applying the basic principles, values, and processes of restorative practices in school settings can improve student behavior and academic performance. Participants will learn a relational approach to building a more compassionate school climate and addressing student behavior.
Cultivating Compassionate Schools
Hear from educators, mental health professionals and former students as they share firsthand accounts of the challenges and successes of creating a nurturing school community. Watch this video to explore the importance of building a school environment that is sensitive to trauma and promotes resilience.
Empowering Teachers to Determine Classroom Practice and Agency
Teacher agency can be defined as the voluntary exercise of power in thought, choices, and actions. Exercising this power of choice can enable teachers to create more equitable spaces for students. This presentation will provide teachers with practical and straightforward steps that can be implemented in their classrooms to create safe, affirming, and empowering learning spaces for all students. Areas of focus: Routines and procedures, curriculum, grading, and expectations.
Introduction to Restorative Practices in Schools
This training is designed to help school staff understand the basic principles, values, and processes of restorative practices in school settings. Participants will learn skills and strategies to help create caring school communities based on respect, responsibility, and repair of harm.
Making Schools Safer for LGBTQIA+ Youth: Part 1
This video will focus on unpacking personal biases that shape how we view the LGBTQIA+ population. We will provide a brief history of the ways this population has been marginalized, how they have resisted, and examine the current state of schooling conditions for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Parent Engagement for Schools
Parents often face challenges that make it difficult for them to balance the education needs of their children. Educators also have a heavy load of responsibilities that can make it difficult to work without parental support. In this course, instructor Cicely Bingener will help educators gain practical approaches for engaging parents in their child's educational success. It will also help educators understand the challenges marginalized communities face to increase empathy and understanding. This will lead to improved relationships between schools and the families they serve.
Promoting School Wellbeing and Safety Through Empathy
This presentation defines empathy, wellbeing, and safety. It also discusses how students can put empathy into action to improve wellbeing and create a safer school community.
Psychological First Aid for Everyone
This is a course for everyone to learn and apply Psychological First Aid skills to effectively provide emotional and informational support to others experiencing disaster-related stress. After completing the course, you will be able to identify when to refer for mental and medical health services and apply stress-management and self-care skills care for themselves.
School Wellbeing Toolkit
The Pritzker Center 2021 School Wellbeing Toolkit provides actionable steps educators can take in the classroom to address many of the most pressing concerns in our schools. Learn more about the toolkit and access additional resources at wellbeing4la.org/schools.
Student and Parent Engagement in Schools
Students, their parents, and caregivers rarely fit into the one-size-fits-all approach to classroom design that so many teachers have to work within. This collection will help educators gain tools to engage students and their families as they respond to challenges with their educational journeys. Most of these trainers have been classroom teachers themselves, so each works to offer strategies that work well with educators' busy schedules.