School refusal creates chaos in families and often becomes a vicious cycle in which students become trapped…

Trapped between seeking the immediate, short-term relief that refusing to go to school provides and falling further behind academically, increased feelings of disconnection from peers, and lowered self-esteem.

Join Susan Gibbs, LPC, to learn from her extensive experience in addressing school refusal effectively. She will bridge the clinical and educational worlds and share approaches for both environments so you can help struggling students and families.

• Identify the 4 functions of school refusal and address each one effectively
• Reduce refusal behavior by applying specific interventions for 5 critical times of the day
• Create student and family-specific plans that focus on the student’s inner wealth and human connection
• Equip parents and educators with age-appropriate interventions to successfully handle school refusal in-the-moment
• Apply the Nurtured Heart Approach® to school refusal

Register now to help students end the cycle of school refusal by changing the way they see themselves and the world around them.

Educators find themselves in a national crisis of student mental health. Inconsistent school attendance, COVID-19 “behavior gaps,” increased substance use, and increasing academic struggles among marginalized student populations leave us wondering:

• What is the role of special education to address this crisis?
• How and when is special education a resource to address the struggling student?
• Have the legal boundaries changed regarding eligibility, in this time of mental health peril?
• How do conflicting “rights” of speech, and search and seizure, impact educators?
• When a student is not eligible for special education, how can educators meaningfully, in the student’s home school, provide intervention to support disconnected students. And why does our understanding of MTSS so desperately need to “broaden,” today?

This session, delivered by John Comegno, litigator and law professor, will answer these questions while engaging, entertaining, and empowering educators to support students at risk, providing turnkey strategies to address students struggling behaviorally and emotionally, and most importantly, advance learning.

Everyone who works in the field of education encounters students who have difficulty managing their emotions and behavior.

These children quickly shut down, become disengaged or unmotivated and act out disrupting the classroom, which gets in the way of everyone’s learning.

Watch this comprehensive training and equip yourself with evidence-based intervention strategies and instructional practices to:

• Build healthy mindsets, increase engagement, motivation and decision-making skills
• Invest in positive behavior and learning changes, including effective group work
• Self-regulate emotions and reduce conflicts
• Cope with challenges and decrease emotional distress
• Reduce conduct problems and risk-taking behaviors
• Stop shutting down and reduce non-compliant behavior
• Maintain positive social behaviors and relationships with peers and adults
• Attain and maintain goals and healthy learning habits
• Improve test scores, grades and attendance

Through interactive activities and video demonstrations you will finish this program inspired with a wealth of highly proactive and effective strategies to transform the social-emotional health of your classroom.

You will immediately be able to help your students develop responsibility for their own behavior and learning and contribute to a positive classroom environment!