ACTIVITIES & INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES TO…
Build A Connected Classroom Community
- The neuroscience behind school classroom connectedness: Ideas for working with student diversity
- Cooperative learning structures to promote teamwork: Experiential activities
- Components of building positive and effective relationships with teacher/peers
- 10 Strategies to reduce classroom anxiety and increase student belonging
Principles of Engagement
- Five important “Principles of Engagement”
- High-leverage inclusive practices
- Equitable brain-based instructional opportunities
- Lesson plan ideas and templates
Differentiated Instruction
- Effective, cutting-edge, research-based instructional strategies
- Key components of exemplary programs
- Dynamic assessment strategies to inform instruction
- Flexible grouping practices to remediate and accelerate learning
- Co-teaching success strategies
- OT, SW, SLP, teacher: Collaboration at its finest
Support Academic Success
- Tools for identifying performance barriers
- Technology and resources to support engagement and completion
- The power of visuals and video for task initiation, working memory, and sequential thought
- Scaffolds and supports to engage students with special needs in writing opportunities
- Proven strategies to increase sustained attention
- Resources, resources, resources!
- Video demonstrations of students demonstrating mental flexibility in rigorous problem-solving activities
Brain-Based Engagement Strategies
- Innovative strategies to reduce classroom anxiety and increase student connection
- Powerful instructional moves to increase achievement
- Trauma-informed grounding strategies
Rethink Behavior
- The power of social emotional learning
- Quick on-the-spot behavior interventions that get big results
- Growth vs fixed mindset: Research-based case studies
- Build perseverance: Video demonstrations
- Develop resilience toward rigorous and complex tasks
- Mistakes as opportunities and prevent fear of failure


