Dr. DeMeo will want to learn more about your school in order to tailor a training or coaching cycle to best meet your needs. Below are some examples of PD workshops that Dr. DeMeo has recently offered in schools:

​​Managing the Chaos: Helping Early Adolescents Ride out the Emotional and Social Roller Coaster!
Understand what makes your early adolescents tick and how to make the powerful connection between social and emotional readiness and academic success. William unpacks the most successful models for advancing the social and emotional literacy of middle graders, drawing on the latest findings on brain development. Innovative ideas, specific strategies, amazing insight—you'll get it all in this guide to managing the emotional and social roller coaster in your classroom.
 
Self-Regulation: What It Takes to Be Successful in School & Life
Self-regulation has emerged as a key predictor of health, well-being and education success. This fast pace, dynamic and interactive workshop will examine the conscious and nonconscious processes by which students regulate their thoughts, emotions, attention, behavior, and impulses. Individual differences in self-regulatory capacities are explored, as are developmental pathways. Discover practical and effective neurological strategies for helping students develop this vital skill that will not only impact their success in school but more importantly in life.
 
Sensory Integration Dysfunction and Its Impact on Learning
Get up-to-date on the latest research on how the brain processes sensory information. Bill identifies the effects of sensory integration dysfunction on how your students learn and achieve. Gain a better understanding of the negative effects of stress on learning, the principles of brain development, and how to help children process sensory information. Return to your class with appropriate strategies you'll be able to use immediately to help even the most challenging children reach their fullest potential.
 
The Thriving Classroom: Investing in Students
Tap into a revolutionary approach to addressing student deficits. William draws on the latest research in this session on how to build each student's social, emotional, and academic strengths—and create an environment where they thrive. Learn how to use positive behavior supports to eliminate challenging behavior, help students identify and maximize their unique strengths, and foster a resilient mindset while fostering every learner's social, academic, and emotional growth.
 
Rekindling Your Energy and Enthusiasm for Teaching
Stay energetic and enthusiastic about teaching in spite of the growing work load, demanding requirements and accountability pressures. Dr. Bill will focus on balancing your work and life, taking care of yourself, finding time in your day for your professional and personal passions. Come to be renewed while rekindling your energy and enthusiasm for teaching.
 
Developing a Positive School Culture
Behavior continues to be a major concern of administrators, teachers and students throughout our schools. This dynamic and interactive workshop will provide participants with the rationale, research and success of the implementation of Positive School Culture to address behavioral concerns. This workshop will focus on discussing the key components of Positive School Culture; school-wide expectations, dissemination, actively monitoring behavior (MIS), intervening with inappropriate behavior, acknowledgement, and reviewing data to make decisions. Participants will be able to create a Positive School Culture Plan to be implemented in their school to address behavioral concerns.
 
Learning and Memory  
Student’s brains are different, but every learner can learn. In this fast-paced, energetic session led by a Neuropsychologist, participants will learn the latest in neuroscience research regarding how students learn and the implications for classroom instruction. This practice-oriented and interactive session will focus on understanding the role of working memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory in classroom learning, with an emphasis on learners who are struggling academically. In addition, the five different types of memory; semantic, episodic, automatic, procedural, and emotional will be explored and how they impact learning. Participants will learn “best instructional practices” to boost student engagement, comprehension, and retention; and understand the relationship between the fields of neuroscience and learning.
 
Promoting Social Skills in Elementary Students, the Building Blocks of Success in School and Life!
Research suggests that social skills are essential for students to succeed in school and later in life. The development of social skills begins in infancy and continues into adulthood. The more students use these skills the greater the development of social abilities will stay with them for life. This dynamic and interactive workshop will assist educators involved with students in the latest research and best practices in how to effectively integrate new understanding of the relationship between social skills and academic and life success into their teaching practices. Specifically, strategies focusing on sharing, cooperating, following directions, managing feelings, dealing with stress and anxiety, understanding others perspective, empathy, respecting personal space and resolving conflicts will be discussed.
 
“I have to be Red.” Preventing and Intervening with Rigid Behaviors and Interests in Students on the Autism Spectrum          
Many students who have been diagnosed with autism exhibit rigid behaviors and interests. This workshop will provide participants with more advanced knowledge of how to prevent and intervene with these rigid behaviors and interests. First, participants in this workshop will learn the characteristics of rigid behaviors and interests that affect their functioning in the classroom. Second, participants will learn strategies to address these specific rigid behaviors and interests. Third, participants will learn a variety of behavioral support strategies for students with rigid behaviors and interests.
 
Sensory Strategies to Assist Students not only being Attentive but Increase their Attention Span
Do you have students with ADHD who struggle with paying attention? In this highly interactive session, explore the reasons why students have trouble being attentive. Examine specific
sensory interventions you can incorporate daily into your classroom routines. Return to your students with a new commitment to meet their needs by offering appropriate learning opportunities"
 
Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers: Impact Of Neurological Disorders On Behavior And Academic Achievement
This workshop will increase educator awareness about the educational and behavioral features of disorders such as, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Executive Dysfunction, non-OCD anxiety disorders, and ""rage attacks"" or ""storms."" Educational and behavioral strategies and resources will be presented to assist educators in working more effectively with students who have these disorders.
 
Effectively Handling Oppositional Defiant Behavior
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a disorder in which children ignore or defy adults' requests and rules. They may be passive, finding ways to annoy others, or active, verbally saying ""No"". They tend to blame others for their mistakes and difficulties. Often times, it is the child with the difficult-child temperament who goes on to become oppositionally defiant.. The children display a low self-esteem, mood changes, low frustration tolerance, and temper outbursts. Children with oppositional defiant disorder may continue on to manifest conduct disorder. This dynamic and interactive workshop will focus on providing participants with knowledge of effective and appropriate prevention and intervention strategies for students who exhibit oppositional defiant disorder. This presentation will focus on the latest research in the field of psychology on best practices of identifying, preventing and intervening with students who exhibit oppositional behavior. Through a combination of role-playing and other active participatory methods, participants will learn how to implement these practical and effective strategies immediately into their program.
 
The Bullying Child
Bullying has gained national attention as a critical factor in the recent rise of school violence. Addressing bullying behaviors in children and adolescents requires more than decreasing the number of bullying acts. Educators need to identify the purpose and intention behind the behavior. Training will offer strategies for working with youth identified as demonstrating these behaviors, identifying bullying tendencies in children, and understanding the signs and symptoms of such behaviors. Practical and effective strategies will be presented to intervene with bullying behaviors that educators can use immediately when returning to their programs.
 
Interment Explosive Disorder, Practical Prevention and Intervention Strategies
Intermittent explosive disorder involves repeated, sudden episodes of impulsive, aggressive, violent behavior or angry verbal outbursts in which student react grossly out of proportion to the situation. Road rage, physical and verbal abusive behavior, throwing or breaking objects, or other temper tantrums may be signs of intermittent explosive disorder. These intermittent, explosive outbursts cause student, peers and teaching staff significant distress, negatively impact relationships, and they can have legal and financial consequences. Intermittent explosive disorder is a chronic disorder that can continue for years, although the severity of outbursts may decrease with age. This workshop will explore the latest prevention and intervention strategies to help the student control your their aggressive impulses.
 
Not Quite Burned Out But Crispy Around The Edges
Job burnout is one manifestation of excessive stress in the lives of every individual and especially among the helping professions, such as teachers, doctor, nurses, and social workers.  Due to our responsibilities of working with people intensely over a period of time, and remaining supportive, calm, and objective, we are prone to burnout.  In addition, many of us have dual roles in today’s society, such as being caretakers and support givers of family and friends, which make us even more susceptible to burnout.
 
Closing the Generation Gap: Teaching in the 21st Century
Are you ready to take teaching to the next level? Go beyond basic strategies and gain the tools to teach critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills which are the core of your students’ learning across all content areas. Turn the tables on the classroom of yesteryear by using real-world scenarios to provide student learning experiences that have enduring value outside the classroom and can equip learners with the skills necessary to succeed in an ever changing world. This advanced workshop for K-12 teachers will transform the way you and your students think while you are teaching. It will help you: • Build achievement motivation and self-regulation • Set new roles for student and teacher that encourage learner autonomy • Inspire your students’ passion and creativity • Employ cutting-edge techniques for designing rigorous E4 strategies (Effective, Engaging, Enriching, and Exciting)
 
Sensory Interventions for ADHD
Do you have students with ADHD who struggle with paying attention? In this highly interactive session, explore the reasons why students have trouble being attentive. Examine specific sensory interventions you can incorporate daily into your classroom routines. Return to your students with a new commitment to meet their needs by offering appropriate learning opportunities.
 
Managing the Angry & Aggressive Child
There is widespread concern over the increasing frequency of aggression by children. This session focuses on effective intervention strategies you can confidently use. Through didactic presentation, experiential exercises, and case examples, Bill will show you how to help students turn anger and misdirected aggression into an appropriate response.
 
Educating Children with Autism/Asperger’s Syndrome: Strategies for School Success
Current increases in the number of students identified with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome have resulted in an increased demand for appropriate educational programs. In addition the workshop will provide participants with more advanced knowledge of how-to enhance academic, social, and behavioral outcomes for students diagnosed with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. First, participants in this workshop will learn the characteristics of Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome that may affect academic performance and how to implement effective teaching practices. Second, participants will learn strategies for programming social skills in structured and unstructured activities. Third, participants will learn a variety of behavioral support strategies for students with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. The workshop will discuss practical and effective strategies to improve social skills, social and emotional understanding, sensory-motor integration, organization, and information processing.
 
Guide & Support Children with Autism & Asperger's Syndrome to Success!
Learn how to enhance the academic, social, and behavioral outcomes of students diagnosed with autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. Bill explores the characteristics of autism and Asperger’s Syndrome that may affect academic performance. Come learn support strategies for guiding these students to success.
 
Effectively Handling Oppositional Defiant Behavior        
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a disorder in which children ignore or defy adults' requests and rules. They may be passive, finding ways to annoy others, or active, verbally saying "No". They tend to blame others for their mistakes and difficulties. Often times, it is the child with the difficult-child temperament who goes on to become oppositionally defiant. The children display a low self-esteem, mood changes, low frustration tolerance, and temper outbursts. Children with oppositional defiant disorder may continue on to manifest conduct disorder. This dynamic and interactive workshop will focus on providing participants with knowledge of effective and appropriate prevention and intervention strategies for students who exhibit oppositional defiant disorder. This presentation will focus on the latest research in the field of psychology on best practices of identifying, preventing and intervening with students who exhibit oppositional behavior. Through a combination of role-playing and other active participatory methods, participants will learn how to implement these practical and effective strategies immediately into their program.
 
Implementing Positive Behavioral Supports in Your School: Overcoming the Challenges
Educators in today’s schools and classrooms are adopting and sustaining effective and cost efficient practices for positive behavior support at school, classroom, and individual student levels. In this workshop, educators will learn to assess and build a positive, inclusive school culture that is academically effective and achieve success with behaviorally resistant students.
 
Working with the Challenging Child: What to Do When Nothing Else Works!
Learn the rationales, development, and implementation of the skills and techniques for working with challenging children. Through a combination of role-playing and other active participation, you'll learn to identify the biological, environmental, and cognitive factors behind challenging behavior.
 
What Do You Mean Boys in School Are in Crisis?
By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind. Boys are 85 percent of the discipline problems in school. They also constitute the largest population in special education, Title 1, and those who have reading and writing problems. Boys are the ones who have committed the violent acts in America's schools and they are the most likely to drop out of school. Finally, thirty years ago men represented 58 percent of the undergraduate student body. Now they’re a minority at 44 percent. This widening achievement gap has profound implications for the economy, society and families in America. This workshop focuses on the why behind male behavior in school and what schools can do to begin making school more "boy friendly". Issues that impact boys who come from poverty as well as middle class will be explored in this session. By analyzing brain structure and the varied social influences boys face, participants will unmask the root causes of boy behaviors and offer key strategies in overcoming these potential adverse effects. This dynamic and interactive workshop will focus on providing participants with knowledge of effective and appropriate prevention and intervention strategies for boys in crisis. Through a combination of role-playing and other active participatory methods, participants will learn how to implement these practical and effective strategies immediately into their program.
 
Improving Achievement for Challenging Learners
Discover what the latest brain research reveals about how children learn best! In this hands-on session, you'll explore how to improve reading, writing, and math achievement using the most brain-compatible strategies. And, you'll learn how to implement these practical and effective strategies to help your challenging learners achieve classroom success.
 
New Brain Research & How Children Really Learn
Hear the latest research on how the brain learns. Dr. DeMeo will explore brain-based learning strategies, the negative effects of stress on learning, the principles of brain development, and the roles of emotions in learning. You'll gain ready-to-use strategies you can use to help even the most challenging child develop to his or her fullest potential!
 
Rebels with a Cause! Brain-Compatible Approaches for Motivating Reluctant Learners
How do we address our reluctant learners who seem to have the hardest time paying attention and completing work? This dynamic and interactive workshop will focus on providing participants with effective and practical brain-compatible strategies to assist students to become passionate learners, and helping them retain more. Participants will be able to use these strategies immediately when returning to their school to motivate the most reluctant students achieve.
 
The Adolescent Brain
Get up-to-date on the latest neuroscience research on how adolescent brains naturally learn best and practical strategies for motivating students to improve and achieve. Learn about exciting discoveries – including neurogenesis, social brain, uniqueness of the brain, neutral state of resting, and allostasis – and how to turn them into the foundation of lifelong learning for your 21st-century students.
 
The Brains Behind Learning to Read & Write      
Improve your students' reading and writing skills! In this hands-on session, Bill offers effective brain-compatible teaching strategies for increasing literacy test scores. You'll learn how easily curriculum and assessment can be aligned to guide individualized instruction.
 
Think Fast! Brain Overload and Its Impact on Learning and Achieving
What happens when the brain becomes overloaded with too much information? Things quickly go haywire. In this provocative presentation, Bill explores the principles of brain development, the negative effects of stress, and the role sensory integration plays in learning. Discover mind-clearing tricks and brain-compatible strategies for helping even your most challenged learners develop to their fullest potential.
 
Using Brain-Based Teaching Strategies to Improve Student’s Reading and Writing Skills
This workshop is for educators interested in best practices that incorporate current research on brain-based learning. During this hands-on session, participants will experience how to improve reading/writing test scores using effective brain-compatible teaching strategies. Participants will discover how easily curriculum and assessment can be aligned to guide individualized instruction. Participants will leave this workshop with a wealth of practical teaching ideas guaranteed to improve student achievement.
 
How to Identify, Prevent & Intervene with Bullying & Cyber-bullying
Decreasing the number of bullying and cyber-bullying incidences is not enough. Bill goes deeper as he shows you how to identify the intention behind the behavior, recognize bullying tendencies in students, and understand signs and symptoms in bullied students. Take home practical, effective strategies for interventions you can apply immediately.
 
Bully-Proofing Your Classroom  
Bullying has gained national attention as a threat for which educators admit they are poorly trained. In this dynamic and interactive session, Bill offers strategies for preventing bullying behaviors, including cyber bullying, in your classroom. Through a combination of active methods, you’ll learn how to implement these strategies immediately into your classroom.
 
The Bullying Child
Bullying has gained national attention as a critical factor in the recent rise of school violence. Addressing bullying behaviors in children and adolescents requires more than decreasing the number of bullying acts. Educators need to identify the purpose and intention behind the behavior. Training will offer strategies for working with youth identified as demonstrating these behaviors, identifying bullying tendencies in children, and understanding the signs and symptoms of such behaviors. Practical and effective strategies will be presented to intervene with bullying behaviors that educators can use immediately when returning to their programs.
 
Intentional Cooperation—the Key to Ongoing High Achievement             
How can you encourage highly effective cooperation among your students? Join Bill to learn what happens to achievement when cooperation occurs and explore specific structures and processes that need to be in place for cooperation to succeed. It's all here—the skills and strategies to ensure your students create and sustain high-performing cooperative relationships.
 
Differentiated Instruction: Building a Repertoire of Instructional Strategies
This workshop is designed for those who are experienced with Differentiated Instruction but who are ready to move to more in-depth implementation. The workshop will discuss the critical components of Environment, Knowing the Learner, Assessment, Adjustable Assignments, Instructional Strategies and Curriculum Approaches. This workshop will focus on flexible grouping with tie-in to curriculum compacting. In addition differentiating in processes will be explored such as assessment, content, affect, readiness, learning profile, interest and product.
 
Discipline with the Brain in Mind
Learn about the latest brain research and how best to discipline students with the brain in mind. Learn how brain-smart discipline strategies change not only a student’s behavior but literally change the wiring of the brain resulting in higher academic achievement. This dynamic and interactive workshop has been designed to provide practical and effective strategies that can be virtually incorporated into any educational program.
 
Managing the Diverse Classroom
Meeting the needs of students with diverse learning styles and backgrounds can be a challenge for teachers. This course will give teachers strategies that will help them provide a successful educational experience for students. This presentation will focus on the practical and effective strategies to manage students who are diverse, gender, culture, race, socioeconomic status and disability. Through a combination of role-playing and other active participatory methods, participants will learn how to implement these practical and effective strategies immediately into their program.
 
Executive Functioning: Connecting to Success in School and Life!
Students who have strong executive functions are able to plan and prioritize, organize their thoughts, manage their time, make decisions, pay attention, and regulate their behavior. Consequently, they succeed in school and life. Bill reveals the latest research and best practices for effectively integrating executive functioning skills into your teaching. Early attention to these skills is crucial!
 
Joyful Fluency: Brain-Compatible Second Language Acquisition
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of research in neuroscience and related science on how the brain naturally learns best. Based on these brain-compatible principles, learning a second language is finding a powerful identity. This presentation will assist teachers and professionals involved with English as a second language, on how to implement the principles of brain-compatible language acquisition into their programs. Participants will discover how brain-compatible principles maximize achievement and naturally accelerates the process in learning a second language.
 
Educating Introverts: Getting the Most from All Students            
Is your student an introvert—or extrovert? To better understand their learning style, you need to know. Learn how introverts and extroverts process information differently using different parts of the brain and different neurotransmitters. Transform the way you teach students who are introverted while better preparing them to meet your expectations and succeed.
 
Literacy With the Brain in Mind!             
Get up-to-date on the latest research regarding how the brain learns and reads and learn how to wire your children's brains for success. Bill shows you how to weave research-based literacy strategies into your daily classroom routines. Discover how young children of all backgrounds, with every imaginable history of failure, of every age and attitude of discouragement can and have succeeded in reading with the brain-compatible approach. Take home ideas, games, and activities that are ready-to-use!
 
Successful Classroom Management: Research-Based Strategies that Work in the Classroom!
This dynamic, interactive session provides you with effective strategies for managing a challenging workload and addressing the needs of a diverse population. Learn how to establish and maintain an effective learning environment using Positive Behavior Support and Pyramid of Intervention Strategies.
 
Challenging Learners: Rekindling Their Passion to Succeed
This presentation will address our challenging learners who seem to have the hardest time being attentive, compliant and completing work. This dynamic, energetic, research-based and interactive workshop will focus on providing participants with practical and effective strategies to assist students to become passionate learners and succeed. Participants will be able to use these strategies immediately when returning to their school with their most challenging students. Handouts on practical and specific strategies will be provided!
 
Strategies for Counteracting the Impact of Poverty on Students
Learn practical, effective, research-based strategies for improving achievement, attention, impulse control, behavior, and memory for male students from chronic poverty. You’ll understand the effects of poverty on the males’ chemical, anatomical, and neurological functioning. And, you’ll discover how to enhance and adapt the physical environment for optimal learning experiences for the male student.
 
The Impact of Poverty on Learning and Behavior: Crisis or Opportunity
This dynamic and interactive workshop will focus on providing the biological, cognitive behavioral differences between students of chronic poverty and those of greater socioeconomic status. Many children are affected by chronic poverty that affects their chemical, anatomical, and neurological functioning that impair attention, impulse control, learning, behavior and memory. This workshop will highlight practical and effective strategies to improve students from chronic poverty achievement, attention, impulse control, behavior and memory based on the latest neuroscience research. During this engaging and hands-on session, participants will enjoy learning and be able to use these strategies immediately when returning to their classrooms to help students impacted by chronic poverty to succeed and achieve.
 
The Role of the Educator in the Trauma-Informed Approach
In this introduction to the trauma-informed approach, Bill provides an overview of the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study and addresses trauma, toxic stress, and the impact on health, learning, and behavior. Join him to explore your role as an educator in fostering resilience and in building a trauma-informed approach.
 
Traumatized Children - The Role of the Educator in the New Age              
When psychological trauma occurs during childhood, the feelings of safety and security that are essential to normal growth and development are suddenly shattered. Mistrust often ensues, hampering the ability to develop the social and academic skills integral to success in school. This dynamic and interactive session emphasizes how to intervene when a violent event interrupts the joy of childhood, and provides insights into how emotional trauma reframes a child's entire view of life.
 
Stressed & Traumatized Students: Strategies to Help Students Succeed
In this dynamic, interactive session, you’ll learn how to intervene when a violent event interrupts the joy of childhood. You’ll understand the physiological and psychological response to stress and trauma, and gain insight into how emotional trauma reframes a student's entire view of life. And, you’ll learn how to help these students develop acceptable coping skills.
 
Understanding the Plight of Anxious/Stressed Students: What You Can Do to Help
Today, an unprecedented number of young people experience anxiety and stress both at home and in school. Whatever the root causes, parents and educators need to work together to address the needs of these children. In this session, explore the everyday factors and circumstances that cause anxiety and place children under stress. Then, take action using practical tactics, activities, and interventions strategies that are within your control. Bill also offers classroom management and discipline tactics you'll want to practice regularly.
 
Marzano’s 9 Strategies Guaranteed to Impact Students’ Achievement
Assist your students to achieve high academic achievement by implementing Marzano’s into your teaching. Learn how these 9 evidenced research based strategies succeed academically. You’ll learn specific ways to in how to infuse these nine strategies into your classroom.
 
The Joys and Challenges of Teaching Creativity
Gain the inspiration and strategies you need to teach creativity in multiple disciplines across all grade levels. Come learn fresh innovative approaches to teach creativity. Come make a commitment to purposeful creativity which the key to inspiring students.
 
Engaging Students in Journaling              
Come and discover lots of creative ways to engage students in journaling. You’ll learn about clever and inexpensive journals your students can create. You’ll explore multiple strategies designed to encourage students to write and read about while having fun discovering the world around them.
 
Working with Difficult People: Strategies to Manage Conflict and Still Achieve Desirable Outcomes
You often find yourself dealing with adults who seem to delight in making your life miserable. There are specific strategies that you can use that will achieve more positive outcomes with difficult individuals and experience more productive and harmonious interactions. This training is packed with positive, practical tools and tips that you can apply immediately for dramatic results. You will be armed with the solid skills you need to work more productively and effectively with the most difficult person. After attending this training, you will find that the next meeting with that difficult person will be much easier and productive.
 
Preventing and Intervening with Emotional and Behavioral Disorder in Students
Many children who have emotional or behavioral disorders present special challenges for teachers and others in school. The workshop discusses the causes of these problems (suicide, anxiety disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, depression and bipolar disorder) and, on this foundation, build practical and effective prevention and intervention strategies.
 
The Opioid Crisis: The Effects on Students and Their Families!
A wave of students now entering school poses special problems because they were exposed to opiates before birth. While these students’ learning and behavioral problems are not unique, they are often overwhelming to many educational professionals. The significant teaching and classroom management challenges created by this new influx of opioid exposed students have left many educational professionals feeling inadequately prepared. The workshop will provide: (1) overview of the drug exposed student; (2) ways to structure and adapt your environment; (3) developing specific intervention strategies to meet the challenge of students with prenatal drug exposure (4) Strategies to develop resiliency for families struggling with the opioid crisis.
 
Intervention Strategies For Children Prenatally Exposed To Alcohol And Other Substances
A wave of children now entering schools poses special problems because they were exposed to alcohol and other drugs before birth. While these children’s learning and behavioral problems are not unique, they are often overwhelming to many educators. The significant teaching and classroom management challenges created by this new influx of substance-exposed children have left many teachers feeling inadequately prepared. This presentation focuses on the latest research on the effects of substance-exposed children and practical and effective intervention strategies that can be implemented for children expose prenatally to substances. The workshop will provide: (1) overview of the drug exposed child; (2) ways to structure and adapt the classroom environment; (3) developing specific intervention strategies to meet the challenge of children with prenatal drug exposure."
 
Promoting a Growth Mindset through Neurological Interventions for 21st Century Skills
If you are looking to develop 21st century skills through neurological interventions in promoting a growth mindset than this workshop is for you. Like a muscle, with proper training, the brain can learn to perform tasks that were previously not possible. This process is called neuroplasticity. As the brain continues to develop, old neural pathways are replaced with new efficient pathways. The brain actually grows new neurological circuits and becomes denser as new circuits are added. This improves the way that an individual takes in, processes, stores and retrieves information, enabling us to learn more effectively long into our adult lives. Building and promoting 21st century skills from an early age promotes a healthy growth mindset.
 
Where Oh Where Have Critical Thinking Skills Gone!
Too many facts, too little conceptualizing, too much memorizing, and too little thinking. Students in school today are achieving little connection and depth, either within or across subjects. Atomized lists dominate textbooks, atomized teaching dominates instruction, and atomized recall dominates learning. What is learned are superficial fragments, typically soon forgotten. What is missing is the coherence, connection, and depth of understanding that accompanies systematic critical thinking. Knowledge is produced by thought, analyzed by thought, comprehended by thought, organized, evaluated, maintained, and transformed by thought. In this dynamic and engaging institute, participants will learn research-based processes for designing lessons that ensures students success for deep understanding of knowledge.
 
Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace!
Conflict in the workplace is inevitable. Organizations, individuals and society are ever-changing. As a result, interpersonal relations, individual expectations and unexpected events all cause personal stress that makes conflict a constant companion. The challenge is that most people unconsciously react to conflict, yet now more than ever, individuals must learn to prevent, manage and resolve conflict before a minor misunderstanding becomes a major battle. The goal of this workshop is to enable you to catch yourself before a conflict occurs, then to choose a different response. This simple step will take you out of the reactionary response. Successful individuals all have this ability and it is what allows them to quickly and effectively deal with conflict. When conflict is managed properly it can actually contribute to the individuals', teams' and organizations' success by turning a conflict situation into an opportunity for growth.
 
Preventing and Intervening with Depressive Disorders in Students
Many children who have depressive disorders present special challenges for teachers and others in school. The workshop discusses the causes of depression and, on this foundation, build practical and effective prevention and intervention strategies. This workshop will focus on providing participants with knowledge of effective intervention strategies to implement in their program. Specifically, the following activities will be emphasized: (1)- identifying factors associated with depression in students (2) Identifying specific classroom strategies for prevention and intervention with depression. (3) Presenting the components of a unique neurological model of intervention with depression.
 
Preventing and Intervening with Bi-Polar Disorders in Students
Many children who have bipolar disorders present special challenges for teachers and others in school. The workshop discusses the causes of bipolar and, on this foundation, build practical and effective prevention and intervention strategies. This workshop will focus on providing participants with knowledge of effective intervention strategies to implement in their program. Specifically, the following activities will be emphasized: (1)-identifying factors associated with bi bolar in students (2) Identifying specific classroom strategies for prevention and intervention with bipolar. (3) Presenting the components of a unique neurological model of intervention with bipolar.
 
Preventing and Intervening with Suicide in Students
Many children who contemplate suicide present special challenges for teachers and others in school. The workshop discusses the causes of suicide and, on this foundation, build practical and effective prevention and intervention strategies. This workshop will focus on providing participants with knowledge of effective intervention strategies to implement in their program. Specifically, the following activities will be emphasized: (1)-identifying factors associated with suicide in students (2) Identifying specific classroom strategies for prevention and intervention with suicide. (3) Presenting the components of a unique neurological model of intervention with students contemplating su

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