4C’s: Educator-Student Care

Why don’t students always recognize the care behind adult actions? This session explores the gap between adult intent and student perception, introducing four key ways educators express care—encouragement, accountability, affirmation, and advisement. Participants identify their natural tendencies and gain practical language and strategies to communicate care clearly while maintaining strong, appropriate boundaries. This is a highly interactive session that includes breakouts, discussion, and presentation by participants.

Dr. Brooklyn Raney is a research-practitioner who holds a BA from Colgate University, an MA in Educational Theater from NYU,  and an MS and EdD from the University of Pennsylvania. Brooklyn’s research explores the intersection of student perception, teacher sustainability, and parent expectation as it relates to an ethic of care in schools. After 10 years in the classroom and as an administrator, she has spent the last five years conducting research, speaking and facilitating workshops with educators, parents, and youth serving professionals around the world.

Dr. Raney is the author of One Trusted Adult: How to Build Strong Connections & Healthy Boundaries with Young People and Successful Middle School: Adult Advocates. She is the founder of One Trusted Adult which is a company that provides advisory and student leadership programs and support that enhance climate and connections at school.

Brooklyn lives in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, with her husband, son, and two adventurous goldendoodles named Tuukka and Larry Bird.