2025 Summer Symposium

This session will equip and empower educational stakeholders with the systems and structures needed to build relational trust through social-emotional learning relational practices. Participants will learn the dynamics of relational trust relating to staff to staff, students to staff, admin to staff, and parents to school. In this session, participants will learn skills and strategies to implement relational practices to strengthen the culture of their school/classroom. Implementing relational practices can be used to shift classroom management proactively, which ultimately creates a thriving environment in which fun, effective teaching and learning can take place.  Come learn all about differentiated ways to implement relational practices within elementary education from a trauma-informed/restorative justice approach through the lens of literacy instruction! You will leave this session eager to implement relational practices within your classroom/school, along with the resources to support you in doing so!

Although this session will use literacy instruction as a model, the main focus will be how to build relational trust in any elementary classroom or school environment.

Struggling with big, bold and disruptive behaviors in the classroom? Don't have time to wait for a Behavior Intervention Plan? Join me to talk about Behavior Support Plans where you can design a plan, apply and document trauma-informed practices, and gather data needed for a possible Behavior Intervention Plan. The best part is it puts a teacher-developed and teacher-controlled plan in place while working in that direction.  

Grounded in cutting edge research on courage, vulnerability, empathy, and resilience, this interactive session focuses on creating systems to support healthy teams. Starting with activities designed to build connections and enhance effective communication in staff meetings and PLCs, this workshop incorporates self-reflection, discussion, and the development of key empathetic leadership moves to establish strong collaboration. Teachers and leaders will leave with simple, ready-to-use tools to harness collective strength and cultivate brave spaces for all teams to flourish.

EFT is an easy to learn, effective, quick way to alleviate stress, pain, or a troubling event quickly. Once you know the technique you will be able to use it daily or when you need it. It is tapping specified pressure points on the body while thinking and feeling the stressful event. The technique helps you release it from your body.