“Empowering Educators and Students: Strategies for Navigating the Realities and Thriving in Today’s Schools,” is a 5-part video series. You can watch them all or pick and choose among them. Should you want to watch the entire series, we recommend viewing them in this order:
- The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom (1:34)
- Creating a Felt Sense of Safety and Belonging in School Starts with the Brain (1:50)
- The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles (1:28)
- The Process of Developing Self-regulation: Understanding the Missing Pieces (1:18)
- Brain-aligned Strategies for Re-wiring Brains and Re-patterning Nervous Systems (1:07)
The first two provide a foundation for understanding the science of behavior from a brain and body perspective, including how to apply this knowledge in our work with students, so we are preparing their brains to learn.
The third and fourth dive into a deep understanding of the dynamics involved in regulation and dysregulation as we explore how to support students in developing skills and capacities to regulate independently.
The final one provides specific strategies that correspond to different states of arousal, and how to use a brain and body perspective to support students in getting back to places of learning.
Each video has enough foundational information to be viewed independently.
Thank you for joining us on the journey of growth and learning!
Happy Learning,
Judy Norman
Welcome to the video course, “The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles.“
Discover the true importance of regulation and how it’s often misunderstood. Don’t let regulation be just another buzzword in your vocabulary. In this video course, you will explore how regulation and dysregulation cycles affect students and adults throughout the day and will learn how finding moments of regulation in the midst of dysregulation can be a powerful tool in improving your well-being and shifting students’ behaviors.
By gaining a deeper understanding of how dysregulation is a natural part of everyday life, we can recognize important clues for supporting students in becoming aware of their own activation and learning effective strategies through challenging moments. Apply this understanding to classwide activation. Viewing the class as a collective nervous system gives you the ability to support entire groups of students at the same time, without burning out your own nervous system. Empower yourself and your students!
The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles Learning Objectives:
- Discover how daily cycles of regulation and dysregulation affect both students and classroom dynamics.
- Learn strategies to support students through dysregulation, helping them make effective choices that don’t disrupt learning
- Gain insights into managing the collective nervous system of the classroom without overwhelming yourself.
Handouts: Please download and/or print the handouts below before viewing the recorded video.
One Foot In & One Foot Out Handout
The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles Video
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To complete the video course and to download/print your certificate, you will first need to complete the course quiz. Click on the link below under “Course Content” to begin the quiz.