The presentation draws from recent insights in neuroscience, attachment, and neuroplasticity to offer educators a roadmap for transforming school discipline by letting go of a puritanical paradigm, in which children are good or bad and thus should be rewarded or punished, and instead adopting the empathy paradigm, which sees children’s behavior as a way of communicating unmet needs or missing skills—an approach that improves learning and leads to equity and justice.
These days, teachers need to teach so much, but research tells us stress decreases the brain’s receptiveness to learning. How does a busy teacher fit in support of a student’s emotional life and still meet all the academic demands? This presentation explores the science of stress and of attachment teaching and will provide a framework and practical lessons to integrate socio-emotional attunement with academic goals.
The Power Of Personal Narratives
If you work with kids, you probably work on narrative writing. But did you know that working on narratives—in both oral and written language–has profound effects from helping students to work through emotional issues and trauma, to improving health outcomes from decreased chance of drug abuse and crime to higher chances of fighting cancer and healing from heart attacks, to increasing executive functions and problem solving, all the way through to creating a stronger, more coherent and efficacious sense of self. Join board certified educational therapist Diana Kennedy to explore the many facets and ways to harness the Power of Personal Narrative.
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