Engaged: Building Intentional Partnerships with Families
This book will help you take your family engagement from parent involvement to authentic parent partnership.
The objectives of this course are:
Participants will identify the 10 values that are instrumental in shaping the foundation of effective family engagement
Participants will identify gaps that exist in their current family engagement plan
Participants will be prepared to guide, or participate in, conversations within their organizations regarding ways to strengthen family engagement practices
Participants will be able to maintain a strengths-based approach to family engagement work
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours.
Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
As an educator, you face the impact of trauma in the classroom every day. Let this book be your guide to seeking solutions rather than dwelling on problems, to building relationships that allow students to grow, thrive, and--most assuredly--learn at high levels.
Grounded in research and the authors' experience working with trauma-affected students and their teachers, Fostering Resilient Learners will help you cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings. The authors--a mental health therapist and a veteran principal--provide proven, reliable strategies to help you
Participants will:
Understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom.
Build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels.
Adopt a strengths-based approach that leads you to recalibrate how you view destructive student behaviors and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles.
Head off frustration and burnout with essential self-care techniques that will help you and your students flourish.
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours.
Each district in Wayne and Holmes County received one or more copies of this book as part of the Resilience Library Project completed by the Wayne Holmes Mental Health and Recovery Board in 2022. Some school counselors or mental health professionals also received extra copies of this book at the School Counselor/Mental Health Professionals network meeting in February 2024.
Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership: Building a Learning Environment to Support Healing and Success
Many Educators have heard that implementing “trauma-sensitive” practices can help students heal and succeed. But what does this look like on a day-to-day basis? What does it require of teachers and of those who lead them?
In Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership, Bill Ziegler, Dave Ramage, Andrea Parson, and Justin Foster provide a framework to guide this work. With reference to research and their own experience as teachers, counselors, and school leaders, the authors explain how to do this work.
Accepting students for who they are and responding compassionately to their needs leads them to greater success in academics and life. With 50 recommended strategies and authentic examples of trauma-informed healing practices, Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership can help you transform your school to better serve your students.
Participants will:
Develop empathetic and supportive relationships with and among students and staff.
Identify biases and barriers that may hinder educators’ ability to support learners affected by trauma.
Design all-school events and daily lesson plans to minimize the likelihood of retraumatizing vulnerable students.
Retool discipline practices and physical spaces to foster a more trauma-sensitive culture and climate.
Establish supports to help teachers and other staff deal with secondary trauma.
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours.
Reaching the Wounded Student
This inspirational book offers strategies and ideas to educators who work with wounded students - students who are beyond the point of "at-risk" and who suffer from hopelessness. It shows teachers and principals how to understand, teach, discipline, and motivate these students. This book will also empower and encourage educators to give hope to all students and direct them on a path to academic and life success.
Participants will:
Develop a new level of understanding that helps them deal with students’ issues and how they affect learning and achievement on an academic level
Be able to identify and understand a wounded student
Understand the role of teachers in the lives of wounded students
Manage the behavior issues of wounded students in a variety of ways
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours.
Holmes Center for the Arts
Holmes Center for the Arts provides free classes to families working with support agencies (Job and Family Services, Head Start, Anazao, 180 etc.)
To register email: info@holmescenterforthearts.org
Follow this link to view the website.
Phone: (330) 473-2879