We offer a number of trainings that offer opportunities to explore strategies, insights and practices to improve faculty engagement and encourage positive outcomes. You can learn more about each one below.
Contact us today for more information, to book trainings or inquire about additional options.
COVID-19 Impactful Trainings and Workshops
COVID-19 Playbook
Working through the trauma, anxiety and dysregulation in the classroom.
A unique workshop that focuses on the impact Covid-19 has had on the students and their ability to learn. Teachers will learn ways to recognize the effects of trauma, anxiety and dysregulation of the nervous system.
Teachers will learn practical strategies to incorporate such as establishing a collaborative classroom, mindfulness, restorative circles and Zones of Regulation, and will leave feeling empowered and hopeful about being equipped to guide students through this difficult time.
COVID-19 Individual Coaching for Teachers
Dr. Bashant provides individual, 30 minute virtual coaching sessions for teachers in order to encourage wellness, resilience and overall stress management and self- care during these very challenging times.
The goal of these sessions is to provide a safe space for teachers to process and share their thoughts, experiences, worries and hopes about what has happened and what is to come. Self-care practices will be discussed and encouraged and mindfulness exercises will be shared and practiced as well.
Collaborative and Compassionate Classroom Workshops and Trainings
The Collaborative Classroom Training and Embedded Coaching
This collaborative, skill-building approach has been show to establish or strengthen the relationship between the child and the adult, often begin immediately reducing challenging behavior, build cognitive skills and students' ability to meet expectations, and solve problems durably by addressing the root cause of the behavior.
Trauma Informed Classrooms
A trauma-informed behavior approach that includes positive relationships, a strengths-based approach and supportive interactions has been proven to greatly reduce challenging behavior, improve student engagement and increase learning outcomes.
Advanced Trauma Training
An advanced, all-day seminar for those who already have a basic understanding of trauma in schools.
Participants will gain an understanding of:
The body's responses to being triggered, and the very normal and predictable behaviors that follow
The 5 types of classroom environments that often trigger students and impede learning
A 5-tier scaffolded model of support, grounded in research that educators can implement in order to build trust and relationships, empower students to find and use their voices, and teach the skills necessary to regulate their bodies
This training can be available as a pre-recorded video for viewing upon the convenience of the attendees.
Developing Compassion and Empathy in Students in a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
Now more than ever, we need to create classroom communities in which our students feel connected and free to talk openly about how they are feeling and to ask for what they need. Research indicates that there are specific steps that can be taken in order to foster compassion and empathy among and between students. This will be a necessity as we emerge from the pandemic and expect that our students will be ready to learn.
Additional Trainings and Workshops for Teachers and Administrators
Self-Care for Teachers: 10 Research-Based Practices for Building a Positive Mindset
A positive and supportive classroom community begins with the teacher(s). With a job that has been high stress and has required you to operate way out of your comfort zone for the past year, adopting a positive mindset is not always easy.
During this training, you will learn 10 practices that you can begin today in order to take care of yourself and make it easier to see challenges as opportunities.
This workshop includes a copy of Dr. Bashant’s Positive Mindset Journal for each participant.
Emotional Intelligence in Education
This training will help you gain a deeper understanding of the five areas of emotional intelligence (EQ) as they relate to a leadership role. In addition, specific strategies that are tailored to individuals needs for improving emotional intelligence will be shared.
Mental Health Issues in the Classroom
Make this the best school year yet with the best tools, resources and knowledge to best manage those students diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, mood disorders, anxiety and depression.
Leave this training with:
Quick and efficient strategies for teachers to use to manage challenging and disruptive behaviors
Ways to engage students, and increase attendance and productivity
Strategies to gain collaboration with clinicians
Information on how skill deficits from mental health conditions create behavioral difficulties
An understanding of the characteristics of at-risk students' mental health problems
Mindfulness Training and Coaching for the Classroom
Children and teens who practice mindfulness are more likely to be kind, perform better academically, have less stress and anxiety, more self-control, improved focus and less depression. Dr. Bashant introduces this superpower to students and teachers in the classroom setting.
