Brave Steps: Navigating School Refusal
The transition to the start of school is more difficult for some than others. This webinar will consider children who are very anxious about attending school or separating from home and parents for a variety of reasons. Such students may actually refuse …
Bring Calm to Your Classroom
You set the emotional tone for your classroom, and creating calm in the classroom is about equipping you with your own inner toolbox of self-regulatory and self-management tools so you can model and teach them to their students. In this experiential webinar …
Social Problem Solving
Children and teens face complicated social dilemmas as they navigate their days with classmates and friends. This webinar will describe the benefits of developing the important life skill of social problem solving and introduce several specific approaches. Integrating lessons in social problem …
A+ Beginnings for Back to School Bliss
The transition of going back to school brings change and uncertainty. Model confidence for your children as you create structure and set goals to create a positive tone for a great start to the new school year. In this webinar we will …
Touchpoints in Jewish Life: How Jewish Milestones Match Up With Child Development
In recent years, bestselling authors have published book after book in the pursuit of supporting parents. As a Jewish community, we have the opportunity to tap into the ancient wisdom that Judaism offers into the process of growing up in very real …
Saying No to Ourselves and Our Children: Building Delayed Gratification
“You have to wait!” is a phrase that has become harder and harder to implement in a world replete with immediate gratification. In this workshop we’ll explore the underlying mechanisms of delayed gratification and discuss concrete ways in which we can build …
Promoting Spirituality in Children
What is spirituality and how does it help children and teens grow into strong, resilient adults? This webinar will explore spirituality through the childhood and adolescent years and provide strategies for building it in our students and children.
Weaving Social Emotional Learning into ELA Curricula (CTLE eligible)
Emotional literacy—the ability to name, manage, and productively express our feelings and to empathize with the feelings of others—is a skill too often neglected in the traditional teaching model. This webinar will outline how elementary school teachers can weave emotional literacy instruction …
For Parents: My Child’s Worries About the Coronavirus–Typical or Excessive?
As we all deal with uncertainty and ongoing reminders of how covid-19 has impacted our lives, how can we determine whether children’s worries are excessive? How can we support children’s healthy development and safety in our new reality? Adult and child strategies …
Helping Children Cope: Putting Humpty Back Together Again!
As the nursery rhyme goes…”all the King’s horses and all the King’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again.” While that may be true, professionals and parents can by tipping the scale from vulnerability to strengths. This session will explore resiliency as an …
Supporting Students in Their Transition to Middle and High School
Helping pre-teens, and teens adjust to a new department of schooling and the different expectations that accompany it, is an oft neglected but crucial part of education. This webinar will empower teachers of middle school, junior high, and high school to understand …
Teaching Self-Regulation in Young Children
Self-regulation is a complex set of skills that exert influence over internal sensations and states. These skills are necessary for consistent performance, behavior and school readiness. This webinar explores self-regulatory functions through a developmental lense and offers proven strategies to develop and …
Bringing Mindfulness into the Classroom
Mindfulness has shown to effect emotion regulation, focus and awareness, and positive emotions. In this workshop participants will be introduced to mindfulness and how it can improve one’s effectiveness as a teacher both inside and outside the classroom. Mindfulness will be …
De-Escalating Conflicts in the Classroom
This webinar will discuss predicting and noticing signs of escalating behavioral difficulties in students. It will provide participants with strategies to engage students in these most challenging moments, and strategies to help de-escalate and calm difficult situations. Participants will learn about identifying …
How to Have Difficult Discussions with Children
We all know that uncomfortable feeling – we have to have one of those uncomfortable conversations with our children or our students. Whether it is discussing substance use, challenging behaviors, dealing with peer pressure, family issues, loss and trauma, or substance abuse, …
Cultivating and Supporting Self-Esteem in Children with Learning Challenges
Positive self-esteem can make a big difference for children with learning disabilities and attention challenges. When children value themselves, they’re more likely to self-advocate and ask for the help they believe they deserve. When they’re confident and secure about who they are, …
Calm: The teacher’s guide to supporting anxious students
Like most educators, you probably have children in your class who struggle with anxiety. When children and teens are anxious in school they may have a hard time absorbing new information or retrieving previously learned information. This webinar will offer you a …
Back to School: A Proactive Approach to Managing Separation Anxiety in our Students and Children
In this webinar, we will explore the who, what, where, when, why, and how of separation anxiety. Educators and parents alike will learn a proactive, strategy-based approach to utilize for a host of separation situations and consider the vast opportunities for life-skill …
Parenting in the Balance: When to Intervene and When Not To
Are you exhausted from managing every assignment? From solving every conflict? From never having time to yourself? We all want our children to be happy, successful, and well-supported, but it’s hard to know how much to be involved in our children’s lives …
Teaching Teens: What Every Educator Should Know About the Adolescent Mind, Body and Soul
Teaching adolescents presents challenges and opportunities. When educators understand adolescent development, and appreciate teens’ approach to learning, their belief systems, their notions about rules and authority, and their passion for meaning and belonging, they can increase the effectiveness of their teaching. Learn …
Helping Boost your Child’s Self Esteem
This workshop will explore the various aspects of self-esteem with practical and research based strategies for building genuine self-worth. Redefining a child’s image, training them in an “optimistic explanatory style”, and priming them for success are some techniques that will be covered. …
What, Me Worry? Understanding and Managing Anxiety in Our Children
This webinar will explore anxiety and the forms it takes in children and teens. Causes and situationally specific anxiety, such as test anxiety and speaking anxiety will be discussed. Strategies for parents and teachers to help those children and teens who struggle …
Focus on the Shy and Anxious Child
For the shy and anxious child- a child whose fearful or nervous thoughts and feelings impede their academic functioning- school can often be overwhelming and frightening. This webinar will help teachers better understand children who struggle with anxiety and present strategies to …
Understanding Children’s Mood and Affect
Every teacher and educator knows the behavior and learning of children and teens are impacted by their moods. From irritability to anxiety to sadness, moods can alter the interactions among students, peers and teachers. This HSWOW webinar offers an understanding of common …
