UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
July 24, 2025
UNH Teacher PD
Virtual Workshop: Understanding and Supporting Neurodiversity
What does neurodiversity mean to you? There’s a recent movement in the neurodiverse community to celebrate our differences, and in the classroom, this means that educators need to find a balance between pushing students to grow and accepting their capabilities. Most teachers are expected to have a basic understanding of disabilities and their impacts on learning, but few teacher prep programs include this information. This course provides an introduction to the common characteristics of various disabilities, special education eligibility criteria, and the best ways to support these students.
You'll practice identifying how to prioritize skills and expectations, as well as remove barriers using neurodiverse practices so that all students can succeed to their full potential. Whether you’re new to the classroom or a veteran teacher seeking a refresher, this workshop will empower you with up-to-date information on diverse learning needs. There will be opportunities to collaborate, work through scenarios, and apply the content to your setting, ensuring you leave with strategies you can implement immediately.
July 22, 2025
UNH Teacher PD
Virtual Workshop: Practical Classroom Strategies for Executive Functioning
Learn what the latest research says about ADHD and Executive Functioning in children to better understand the impacts in the classroom such as working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self regulation/inhibition.
You will walk away with practical, evidence based strategies to improve these areas and specifically improve attending, organizing/planning, task initiation, managing emotions, and self-monitoring.
Since many other students often struggle with various executive functioning due to trauma, anxiety, or disabilities, these strategies can be applied for a variety of populations.
August 12, 2025
UNH Educator PD
Virtual Workshop: Cognitive Frameworks in SEL
There are several major cognitive functions required for successful development and participation in social/emotional learning. Learn what they are, how they impact each other, and what it looks like in the classroom, so we can better remove barriers, provide supports, and teach skills in these areas.
When we understand the role of cognitive functions in learning/behaviors, we can better understand these deficits as lagging skills instead of laziness, bad choices, or opposition. Then, we’ll build your toolbox of practical and evidence based classroom strategies that are brain based to better help students with social/emotional challenges.
August 14, 2025
UNH Educator PD
Virtual Workshop: Re-Thinking Discipline with Restorative Practices
Traditional discipline practices have been proven unsuccessful in changing behaviors, but teachers and administrators are left not knowing what or how to discipline in effective ways.
This workshop will explore restorative practices that view discipline as teachable moments such as using:
Reflection
Restorative Circles
Reteaching, Restitution
Repairing Repairing Relationships
and Logical Consequences
Learn what these practices look like in practice, how to structure them, and how to implement them at the Tier I, II, and III levels so boundaries and responses to student behaviors are clear. There will be opportunities to collaborate, work through scenarios, and apply the content to your setting so you leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow.
August 18, 2025
UNH Teacher PD
Virtual Workshop: Classroom Management 101
There are several key components to effectively manage classroom behavior so that teachers can actually teach: structuring the environment, instruction that increases engagement, and building a sense of belonging. Learn how to develop these consistent systems in your K-12 setting so both expectations and the teacher’s responses are clear and predictable…because none of us do our best when we’re making it up on the fly. This workshop will give you practical, evidence based strategies to address these needs to decrease class disruptions and increase student engagement. There will be opportunities to collaborate, work through scenarios, and apply the content to your setting so you leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow.
UNH Teacher PD (virtual): Video and Peer Modeling to Teach SEL Skills
Peer models and video modeling are effective tools in teaching students social/emotional related skills because they provide the visual of what to do combined with the script of what to say in student friendly ways. Peer modeling allows students to practice their skills while also helping others and leaves students feeling empowered, connected, and more accountable. Video modeling can be a tool in helping students learn skills in real life contexts and scenarios that are meaningful. This workshop will show you how to structure the use of video modeling and peer modeling to teach, practice, and build social emotional skills in the CASEL Competencies of Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making. Learn how to implement these at the Tier I level to teach whole class expectations such as how to agree/disagree constructively, accept feedback, and what group work looks like as well as at the Tier III level to teach student goals such as “reading the room,” reframing negative self-talk, or using replacement/coping strategies. There will be opportunities to collaborate, work through scenarios, and apply the content to your setting so you leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow.
NHSAA 2023 Best Practices in SEL Conference
Sarah is presenting 2 sessions on Re-Thinking Discipline
UNH Teacher PD (virtual) Workshop: Trauma Informed Instruction
Build your toolbox of practical classroom and schoolwide strategies to clearly identify and remove barriers to student success, teach and model coping skills, and build connections with even the most difficult students. Re-think traditional discipline procedures and move towards a focus on restorative practices and repairing relationships. You will walk away with evidence based practices that you can implement in your classroom the very next day.