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8 Ways to Help Students Accept and Follow Behavior Standards

You can help establish continuity between school and home by sharing the rationale for classroom behavior standards with students’ families. That’s one of eight practical suggestions featured in this tip sheet on helping students follow behavior guidelines, adapted from the upcoming book Understanding and Supporting Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Read More

6 Ways Families Can Encourage Desired Behavior

Empowering parents and families to support positive behavior outside the classroom helps lay the groundwork for social-emotional health in children. Adapted from the upcoming book Helping Your Family Thrive, here are six proactive tips to share with families and caregivers so they can nurture desired behavior at home. Read More

How Trauma Affects a Student’s Psyche: What Educators Need to Know and Do

If we conceptualize trauma as an "emotional heart attack," what would that lead us to do as education professionals? What would we choose NOT to do? Discover the answers in this presentation by Dyane Lewis Carrere, M.Ed., author of The Re-Set Process, a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based approach to improving behavioral success in children from Grades K–8. This engaging session will explore the ways in which trauma affects children’s psyches: how they feel about themselves and how they relate to others and their world. Carrere will also connect those understandings with practical strategies that attendees can implement in their classrooms and schools. Read More