Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Stress

Half of U.S. students come to school having experienced or still experiencing some type of trauma, violence, or chronic stress. This startling statistic presents a challenge to all educators, especially because very little professional literature focuses on teaching this population and doing so from a strengths-based perspective. Instead of looking at what is missing from the lives of these students and their families, the presenters will focus on the assets they bring and how to create a strengths-based classroom learning environment that extends to families and communities.
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Revisiting Room Arrangement as a Teaching Strategy

Often, when school leaders think of their physical environment, they focus solely on safety. But safety is just the beginning of what the physical environment can and should do.
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Enabling Equitable Education

Equity has long been a priority for school systems prior to 2020; however, the pandemic has focused attention on the continuing need to create more equitable education environments. Simply putting more devices in students’ hands is not enough; they deserve access to an equitable education–including best-in-class learning solutions and technologies. These solutions must be inclusively designed, giving students multiple ways to create, engage, and participate in constructing knowledge regardless of ability, income, language, location, or identity.
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The Science of Reading and English Learners: A Roundtable Discussion

This roundtable discussion explores how to best support English Learners within a structured literacy framework
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Student Affairs Assessment: The Relationship with Other Institutional Processes

Student Affairs Assessment: The Relationship with Other Institutional Processes with an understanding of the key elements for strategic planning and program review. In this webinar, we discuss the relationship of assessment to learning outcomes and goals at the department, division, and institutional level. Which includes, the role of assessment as it relates to strategic planning, program review, institutional data collection, and accreditation.
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