These uncertain times have made both behaviors and student engagement worse. But, exhausted though many of us may be, we can still take a clear-eyed look at what we can do to improve behavior and engagement now.

This workshop will look at how every educator can:

• Reduce chronic student stress and anxiety with simple, doable changes.
• Increase student engagement by recognizing and responding to hidden signs of student trauma and chronic stress.
• Help more students change disruptive behavior by changing the way you view and respond to misbehavior, including addressing skill deficits and causal factors.
• Solve SEL challenges that are interrupting instruction – without waiting for a curriculum or someone else to teach the social and emotional skills you wish your students had today.
• Hold kids more accountable using common language and expectations, and logical restorative consequences.
• Reduce student and adult stress by creating consistent expectations for lunch, hallway, and recess duties. (It’s easier than you think.)
• Merge social-emotional learning, school values, and various curriculums to meet the needs of your population.

Polly Bath is a veteran educator. She is known for fun, practical, uplifting workshops!

Remember: When you change your RESPONSE to a student’s behavior, the student will change the BEHAVIOR.

Audience: General and special education teachers, school and district administrators, guidance counselors, school social workers, school adjustment counselors, school psychologists, paraprofessionals, PreK-12.