Communication and Connection for Safer Schools Summer Workshop

Communication and Connection for Safer Schools (C2S2) is excited to offer the Communication and Connection for Safer Schools Workshop this summer with academic year follow up.  

Communication and Connection for Safer Schools

Summer Workshop with Angie Rechtine & Lonny Rivera

Summer Work - July 16, 17, & 18, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

BGSU Levis Commons, 1655 N Wilkinson Way, Perrysburg, OH 43551

18 Contact Hours, Participants will work with colleagues. PD is more fun with friends, so attend with your school team, department, or grade band.

Register here.

Outline for Summer Workshop:

• July 16 - Emotional Poverty
  • Reduce episodes of emotional explosions, anxiety, anger, and violence.
  • Create a safer campus by emotionally triaging the students.
  • Promote a better understanding of the adults’ stages of development and contribution to the emotional safety and noise on the campus.
  • Engage in better strategies that calm students and motivate better behaviors.
• July 17 - Supporting Emotional Regulation
  • Learn what feeling regulation is, what it looks like in students, and how to support this practice. 
  • Specific tools, programs, and interventions will be shared, designed to help educators effectively implement feeling regulation strategies into the school environment. 
  • Collaboration and planning time will also be given to support implementation strategies.
• July 18 - Our Social and Emotional Learning Standards and Strategies to Support
  • Learn about the State of Ohio's Social & Emotional Learning standards and how to easily integrate them into their classrooms and curriculum. 
  • Have the opportunity to collaborate with others to generate ideas and interventions to best support the social and emotional needs of their students. 
  • In addition, key "takeaways" and evidence-based strategies designed for easy, next day implementation will be provided.

Academic Year Work - Six virtual evening meetings

12 Contact Hours Total

Academic year work will include topics like the following:

• Tiered Behavior Supports within MTSS
• Review of emotional poverty
• Supporting Emotional Regulation
• Trauma Informed Care
• Social and Emotional Learning in our Schools, How to Integrate into your Everyday Practices
• Restorative Practices in the Classroom