In-Service Workshops

This dynamic professional learning experience is designed to help school staff move beyond “positive culture” and toward building a truly powerful school culture—one that is intentional, aligned, and deeply rooted in shared purpose. Participants will explore how strong cultures are built through clarity of vision, consistent adult behaviors, collective accountability, and a relentless focus on student success.

Through engaging activities, reflection, and collaborative dialogue, staff will examine the beliefs, habits, and systems that shape their school’s culture every day. The session highlights how language, expectations, relationships, and leadership—at every level—can either strengthen or weaken the culture. Participants will learn how to build trust, increase staff cohesion, and create an environment where both students and adults feel valued, challenged, and supported. The workshop also focuses on sustaining momentum—equipping staff with practical strategies to reinforce core values, address challenges proactively, and ensure consistency across classrooms and teams. By the end of the session, participants will leave with a shared understanding of what a powerful school culture looks like and actionable steps to bring it to life in their daily practice.

• Ideal for: Teachers, administrators, support staff, and school leadership teams
• Format: Interactive, reflective, and team-based learning
• Outcome: A clear, aligned approach to building and sustaining a powerful, high-expectation school culture that drives student and staff success

School personnel will learn select DBT skills and how to use them with students to improve emotion regulation. This workshop can be tailored for any staff although is geared toward counselors, specialized classrooms, and 1:1s who work with emotionally dysregulated students (e.g. paraprofessionals).

Staff will learn verbal and nonverbal de-escalation techniques as well as how to keep students and staff safe during times when students are escalated and having difficulties self-regulating their emotions and/or behavior.

In this interactive presentation, students will explore the importance of decision making and how everyday choices—big or small—can impact their future. Through real-life scenarios, group discussions, and problem-solving activities, participants will learn practical strategies to:

• Identify options and consequences
• Recognize the influence of peers, emotions, and media
• Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Use a step-by-step decision-making model
• Reflect on personal values and long-term goals

Whether it's choosing friends, handling peer pressure, or planning for college and careers, this session empowers students with tools to make thoughtful, responsible decisions in all areas of life.

In this workshop, participants will learn about trauma and strategies that will help school communities build consistency, predictability, and compassionate accountability into their policies. If desired, participants will begin to review and revise current school policy and develop sustainable, trauma-sensitive implementation plans.

A workshop designed for educators and school leaders on helping students succeed and flourish with technology in the classroom. Discover effective ways to use educational technology, the positives of negatives of technology in education, and the future of the school system as it grows alongside digital education. Analyze real research from Generation-Z about their preference of technology in the classroom, as well as their particular preferences of different virtual platforms used to enhance learning. This presentation and collaborative-style workshop is led by Keegan Lee, a member of generation-Z, and psychology researcher at the University of North Carolina.

This workshop will review the basic principles of the B=MAP model of behavior modification. Participants will gain a better understanding of the fundamental elements that drive Behavior Modification.

• Frame student behavior within the B=MAP model
• Practice identifying lagging skills that contribute to the behavior
• Learn the basics to assess level of ability related to expected behavior
• Learn the steps to scaffold supports for students to meet with success
• Learn how success breeds more success

Understanding the implementation of effective research-based tier one interventions is fundamental to the MTSS process. This includes school-wide expectations, routines, incentives, and strategies that are clear and consistent. Participants will develop an understanding of structures and supports to help all students to feel safe and successful.

This workshop involves using hand-on, experiential learning to teach educators the many ways to embed social emotional learning into their classrooms.

This workshop provides the participants with an introduction to the concepts and purpose of providing mental health first aid to youth in schools. Participants learn about the indicators of mental health challenges, appropriate language to use when supporting a student with mental health challenges, as well as strategies to best support students with mental health challenges until professionally-trained mental health support personnel are available.