Learning Events Registrations
Are you supporting a student or multiple students with behaviors that interfere with their learning or the learning of others? Do you find it challenging to teach Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies when the SEL expectations don’t match how your student(s) show up? If you answered yes, then come join us! The goal of the SNS is to provide adults with the training and resources they need to implement evidence-based improvement strategies to support the growth of students with significantly divergent social and emotional learning needs.
Grounding Work
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Events 2022-2023 School Year
Live Virtual Event
20/20/20
Upon District Request
(dependent on availability)
Location: Virtual
Schools, districts, community organizations, and individuals (educators, family members, or community members) can access virtual support with the SNS statewide coordinator. Topics may include understanding of disability‐related needs in the areas of social and emotional learning including regulation, sensory, social skills, communication skills, flexibility, resilience, and executive functioning. These can include training, coaching, and brainstorming meetings, and can be provided up to 4 times a year. Districts, groups, or individuals can request this support by emailing the SNS statewide coordinator (kberg@cesa1.k12.wi.us). Scheduling will be dependent on availability.
Cohort
Body Processing - Regulation and Sensory
3:30-4:30pm
Feb 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th 2023
Location: Virtual
This four session cohort is designed to support educators serving students with disability-related needs in the areas of sensory and regulation. The way our body takes in, interprets and reacts to the world can vary for a variety of reasons. In this training participants will be introduced to this process and possible places students might be experiencing differences that cause unexpected reactions. Staying curious and learning more about a student's perspective and how their body is adapting can support educators and families to be able to support that student be the best them they can be. Through looking at our sensory processing systems and our regulatory systems we can build supports to help students navigate the world they are experiencing.
In-Person
Processing Thinking - Resilience and Flexibility
8:30-3:30pm
Feb 21st, 2023
Location: CESA 6- Oshkosh, WI
Students who exhibit behavior that is challenging to adults often struggle with cognitive flexibility and resilience. When the brain lacks access to its ability to gain and send out certain information, it may result in behavior that can look very rigid. In turn, a student who is struggling with adapting to adversity may be struggling with resilience. In this training, participants will learn about the components of flexibility, resilience, and how their practice can influence a student's growth in these areas. We will look at the effects of a system that struggles to naturally cope with adversity and how to teach methods to be flexible when our brain wants to be rigid.
In-Person
Social Communication - Modes and Language
8:30-3:30pm
Feb 22nd, 2023
Location: CESA 7- Green Bay, WI
The ability to be a social partner is a complicated system. Many of us learned skills without much conscious awareness because the systems of learning matched the way our brain showed up. When our brain does not take in and process social information in the same way as those around us, it can result in a mismatch within our interactions. In this training we will explore components of how we socially communicate and, when our brain thinks differently, how that can cause a student to be misunderstood, have social mishaps or mismatched interactions. Communication modes and how we communicate in context will be addressed.
Live Virtual Event
Untangle the Strategies for Working with Students with Higher Impact Needs
8am-10am
March 8th, 2023
Location: Virtual
(Formally known as =Social Communication -Before Words Focus)
Students who do not use verbal language as their main communication mode are often misunderstood. At times, their communications modes are ignored, misunderstood or viewed as wrong or bad. Behavior that is challenging to us is only challenging until we know strategies to meet learners where they are. Come increase your understanding of how to show up for students who may have significant support needs.
Cohort
Processing Thinking - Resilience and Flexibility
3:30-4:30pm
March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th 2023
Location: Virtual
This four session cohort is designed to support educators serving students with disability-related needs in the areas of flexibility and resilience. Students who exhibit behavior that is challenging to adults often struggle with cognitive flexibility and resilience. When the brain lacks access to its ability to gain and send out certain information, it may result in behavior that can look very rigid. In turn a student who is struggling with adapting to adversity may be struggling with resilience. In this training, participants will learn about the components of flexibility, resilience, and how their practice can influence a student's growth in these areas. We will look at the effects of a system that struggles to naturally cope with adversity and how to teach methods to be flexible when our brain wants to be rigid.
In-Person
Body Processing - Regulation and Sensory
8:30-3:30pm
April 18th, 2023
Location: CESA 1 - Pewaukee, WI
The way our body takes in, interprets and reacts to the world can vary for a variety of reasons. In this training participants will be introduced to this process and possible places students might be experiencing differences that cause unexpected reactions. Educators and families can better support a child by staying curious, learning more about the child's perspective and understanding how their body is adapting to circumstances and experiences. Through looking at our sensory processing systems and our regulatory systems we can build supports to help students navigate the world they are experiencing.
Asynchronous Virtual Opportunities
10-20 minute deep dives into one strategy or topic prompted by questions from across WI
An interactive independent learning experience to enhance capacity around neurodiverse learners and the disability-related needs that often present as a strength, or barrier to learning.