Kansas City, KS: Regional Brain and Behavior Training: Creating a Culture of Academic Engagement and Effective Classroom Management
A 1-day training on our research-backed instructional framework to equip educators with easy-to-use tools that impact student behavior and school culture.
- Date: February 27, 2025
- Early Bird Pricing: $199 - (Ends 2/13/25)
Regular Price: $279 - Location: Sylvester Powell Jr Community Center
The Challenge:
Over 80% of educators report the pandemic has increased student social, emotional, and behavioral challenges (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2022), and they have taken on much of the stress of their students' increased needs (RAND, 2022). Educators need simple strategies to improve student engagement and increase well-being overall.
How We Can Help:
We offer educators low-burden, high-impact strategies to increase well-being, belonging, and engagement in all areas of a classroom and school community. Our instructional framework promotes powerful relationship-building and helps students find value in their learning.
1. Staff Community Building:
We offer educators low-burden, high-impact strategies to increase well-being, belonging, and engagement in all areas of a classroom and school community. Our instructional framework promotes powerful relationship-building and helps students find value in their learning.
2. Research-Backed Classroom Engagement:
Learn our signature S.E.R.V.E. Model to create consistent structures and practices that improve student engagement and increase time learning.
4. Meaningful & Inspirational Content:
We know that this work is incredibly important, but we also know it hard. Come away with perspectives and ideas that reconnect you to your purpose and reenergize you for the future.
3. Usable Tools & Strategies:
Come away with tools that you can use in classrooms the next day including slide decks, easy-to-implement practices, and reflections about pedagogy to boost well-being, belonging, and engagement.
5. Practical Problem Solving:
Identify easy-to-implement solutions for challenges impacting your school community using low-burden, high-impact practices.
Objectives
Using CharacterStrong's research-based SERVE Model…
- Collaborate with other educators to identify, discuss, and solve real problems happening in your learning environment
- Practice relationship-building strategies that establish, maintain, and restore empathy, trust, and compassion among a community of learners
- Cultivate practical and powerful skills to respond to student behaviors
- Refine classroom structures that provide students with intellectual safety and sense of belonging
- Design lessons that connect students to a great purpose for learning to increase engagement
- Refine procedures for reflection and feedback that increase academic performance
Logistics
Who?
Bring a small team comprised of different positions including: School and District Leaders, Classroom Teachers, School Counselors, School Support Staff - all are welcome.
Schedule:
- 8:30am - Opening & S.E.R.V.E. Model Introduction
- 9:15am - "S" (Start): A warm welcome followed by a routine start
- 10:15am - "E" (Engage): Consistent practices to engage relationally
- 11:15am - Lunch
- 12:15am - "R" (Respond): Empathetic tools to respond to people"s needs
- 1:00pm - "V" (Value): Strategies that clarify why our learning has value
- 1:45pm - "E" (Exit): A reflection to solidify learning and exit with action
- 2:15pm - Apply, strategize, and close
