Meet the Needs Workshop Series

Together We Will:

  • Build Classroom Habits that Stick
  • Use Sensory Supports for Student Regulation
  • Understand Behavior to Predict & Prevent It
  • Apply Strategies for Every Student’s Success
  • Foster Peer Relationships Among Students
  • Manage Your Stress to Support Co-Regulation
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High-Impact Learning With Immediately Applicable Strategies

Get those PD hours in and stay engaged from start to finish! Each session combines highly engaging activities, thought-provoking reflections, and humorous storytelling to deepen your learning.

Plus, every workshop is packed with practical strategies you can apply right away in your classroom.

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What You Get!

E-Workbook

An E-Workbook designed to guide you through activities and reflection exercises to deepen your learning. This workbook also serves as a year-long resource you can revisit whenever you need it.

3- 90 Minute Live Workshops

Each live workshop is held on Zoom. You’ll receive the workshop link and the E-Workbook via email one week before the event.

A Bonus 90 Minute Workshop on Habits

This workshop focuses on building habits that stick in the classroom. We'll dive into designing habits for success and using them to streamline transitions, manage workload, and establish routines. Topics include BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design, James Clear’s Habit Loop, and Motivation Theory.

Workshop Topics and Details

Power of Understanding: How to understand behavior to reduce its effect on our stress response.

This workshop explores how understanding behavior can reduce its impact on our stress response. We’ll examine helpful vs. unhelpful thinking patterns around behavior, understand behavior as a form of communication, and learn to interpret it through the lens of the 5 Needs. We'll also cover techniques for regulating our stress response, including thought exercises, perspective-taking, and goal setting.

Power of Regulation: Regulating ourselves to help regulate our students

This workshop teaches how teachers can use cognitive-behavioral strategies, Buddhist techniques, and perspective-taking with compassion and empathy to significantly reduce negative thought patterns and rumination. We’ll also explore strategies for improving restful sleep, reducing triggers in the classroom and with colleagues, and grounding techniques to respond calmly to student behavior. Additionally, we'll discuss co-regulation strategies that help students manage their own emotions through the teacher’s regulated response.

Power of Sensory: Understanding sensory needs to improve student regulation

This workshop introduces three senses we weren’t taught about in school:

- Vestibular: Balance, processed through the inner ear
- Proprioception: Body awareness, processed through the nerves and sheaths on muscles and bones
- Interoception: Internal sensations

Emerging research shows that many student behaviors and anxiety stem from sensory processing issues that trigger their stress response. In this workshop, you'll learn how sensory processing impacts students' stress responses and behavior. We’ll also cover how to set up sensory-friendly spaces in your classroom, provide sensory experiences when students need them, and interpret when students need sensory support or other interventions.

 

Workshop Topics & Schedule:

Workshops are LIVE the 3rd Wednesday of every month @ 8:00pm EST

January 22nd: Power of Understanding: How to understand behavior to reduce its effect on our stress response.

February 19th: Power of Regulation: Regulating ourselves to help regulate our students

March 19th: Power of Sensory: Understanding sensory needs to improve student regulation

Plus a Bonus Workshop: Released 12/1/2024

Recorded: Power of Habits: Using habits in the classroom to maximize your time and energy

OR Get The Workshop Bundle & A Year of The Neighborhood!

This is for you if you REALLY dig TTR's content and want the workshop series + weekly lives, a community chat, and a resource library.

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