The Empowered Classroom
Schools have always been central to our communities. It is where our kids make friends, it’s where they are educated, it’s where they are safe, but they are not always places where our kids feel safe. For kids with any kind of adversity or trauma, schools can feel unwelcoming and create anxiety. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Most of us can remember a teacher that was influential in our lives. For some of us, they helped us focus and get good grades. For some of us, they saw our potential and pushed us to walk in that potential. And for some of us, we had teachers who helped turn our lives around.
At the heart of what we teach is this simple progression, where children feel safe they can connect in relationship, and their lives change. Because their lives change their behaviors change and learning can happen.
The first step is to help the students feel safe. We know that hypervigilant people cannot learn new things.
A brain in survival mode cannot learn and grow.
Training Overview
- What puts kids at risk?
- Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES)
- The impacts of trauma
- The value of relationships
- Stress and stress responses
- Stages of regulation
- Internal sensory system
- Social-emotional development
- Proactive correcting strategies
- Tools for connecting
- Problem solving checklist
- And much more
Our training helps develop and enhance the social-emotional learning that is vital for school, work, and life success. People with strong social-emotional skills are able to benefit academically, professionally, and socially.
Watch below as Ryan shares a story from high school about how his English teacher saw his potential and helped shape his future.
“Securely attached children tend to approach uncertainty with interest and curiosity. For maltreated children, however, uncertainty overwhelms, frightens, and freezes them in their tracks. Since the learning process is, by definition, about not knowing something, we should not be surprised that kids who cannot tolerate the distress of uncertainty will struggle in school.” – Wounded Children, Healing Homes
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