School Culture & Social-Emotional Care Coordination
Students and educators thrive in environments of belonging & connection.
Custom Consultation & Support
I partner with your school’s leadership and community to help unfold a school culture that centers emotional safety, belonging, leadership, growth, and connection.
Our work together is completely customized to meet your school’s budgetary and time-based needs, while creating noticeable impact, both acute and long-term.
Social-Emotional Care Coordination
Strengthening connection and understanding among educators and students through enhanced perspective, compassion, and support.
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Sometimes unique cases require unique support. If you have students or educators in your community who continue to experience challenges despite the use of traditional supports, a social-emotional coordination approach can bring new perspective and tools for change.
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Research show that elevating educator wellbeing and social-emotional skill improves school culture.
Whether through supportive group gatherings or one-to-one connection, ensure that your teaching staff and administrators have a safe space to explore daily challenges, celebrate victories, and navigate everything in between.
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Providing students a safe container to practice new ways of thinking, being, and interacting, is an important step in implementing a school culture that allows everyone to thrive.
Comprehensive School Culture Consulting
Facilitating core level transformation to integrate deeper levels of empathy, connection, belonging, and emotional safety into your school community.
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Decades of research have yielded a time-tested outline for shifting a school’s culture at its core.
Through close observation, continued student and educator feedback, and the generation of a new shared language, we’ll create a unique plan to transform your school community.
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An important aspect of school culture change is to thoroughly assess the current culture using multiple methods.
Classroom observation, educator and student surveys, and verbal feedback enable collection of data on a school’s current climate. We will then use that information as a starting point for positive change.
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Cultural change is most effective when implemented in continuous cycles of observation, data collection, and implementation. Ongoing support will help your new culture truly take root.
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The wellbeing of educators plays a critical role in classroom climate and relationships.
Custom workshops and talks provide opportunity for learning, connection, growth, and support to help educators and staff bring balance to their own lives and to the difficult and important work they do every day in the classroom.
Talks & Workshops for Educators
These are just some examples of possible topics we can explore. All of them can be adapted to meet the needs and interests of your particular community. Duration and format are also customized for optimal impact.
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What is “teaching presence” and why is it important? We’ll explore the nuanced role of teachers in creating emotional safety and influencing classroom climate, the elements that impact their ability to do so, and tools for self-care.
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Highly sensitive students are an often overlooked demographic, as they might not present with adverse behaviors in the classroom. However, these students tend to have internalized experiences that can pose challenges for them and their sense of emotional safety.
We’ll explore how teachers can help these students cultivate their strengths, and how to identify and provide the support they need.
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Educator wellbeing is at the center of classroom wellbeing. It is critical to support the adults in a community to tend to their own sense of emotional safety in order foster impactful learning spaces and to truly create a shift in school culture.
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Every single human being carries unique gifts. When we change the lens through which we view our students to include awe for their strengths, we will see them bring those gifts to the surface. Educator perception has the power to shift student behavior and classroom climate.
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Emotional safety is more than just an etheric concept; it’s neuroscience. Together we’ll explore the major impact of interpersonal neurobiology on classroom climate, and the role of self-regulation and coregulation in establishing more peaceful and productive classrooms.
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Current dialogue often centers around trauma-informed education, yet there are many students who might not display typical signs of trauma, and still experience core impact from a very wide scope of challenging life events, both vast and seemingly small.
All of these experiences play a role in students’ sense of self-worth and how they show up in the classroom. It’s essential that educators cultivate this awareness in order to create emotional safety for all students, regardless of life experience.