Enhancing Well Being: Exploring Sensory Tools and Calming Strategies
Participants will learn to recognize signs of sensory overload and stress, and understand how to implement appropriate strategies to mitigate these effects.
Training Type: Inclusion
Managing Challenging Behavior in Preschool: Strategies for Teachers and Effective Communication with Parents
We will define challenging behavior and its impact as well as understand why children engage in challenging behavior. Participants will learn to identify strategies that will decrease challenging behavior and improve the experience for all children in the preschool classroom.
Children’s Development of Difference™
In today’s society, children receive daily messages about skin color, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, ability, gender and many other categories of social identities.
Disability Inclusion Training
An interactive session for boards or other congregational lay leadership
Preparing for Feedback
How to think about difficult conversations with families regarding classroom support or behavior.
The How’s and Why’s of Behavior in Children
You will come away from this training understanding why and how children act the way they act, with concrete tools to provide support for all types of behaviors.
Radical Inclusion!
What does it mean to be an inclusive community? At the end of this session, you will have a deeper understanding of what it means to be an inclusive community and you will walk away with tools to increase inclusion at your site.
Recognizing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors
This training presents an overview of the types of challenging behaviors that we see in educational settings—how they show up, what underlying challenge(s) they are communicating, and how to respond effectively.
Special Needs 101
This training provides an overview of up to three diagnoses that you may be seeing in your educational environments — what the diagnosis means, how it might manifest in your program, and how to accommodate it.
Special Needs 201
A more advanced version of Special Needs 101: A deeper dive into one or more diagnoses which is suitable for educators who have some background knowledge already.