“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, “Brain-aligned Strategies for Re-wiring Brains and Re-patterning Nervous Systems.”
When strategies that have always worked in the past, are not working, it’s frustrating! In fact, sometimes our responses even seem to make the situation worse. What’s going on? When we learn to identify brain and body states it facilitates using the right strategy at the right time, including understanding why something might work in one moment and not another. When students aren’t in the higher regions of their brains, some strategies meant to support them, actually create escalation.
In this course, you will learn critical classroom strategies that work with students during varying states of arousal, expanding windows of tolerance and getting students back to places of learning and will strengthen your ability to help students grow their capacity for dealing with stress and challenges in and out of the classroom as you support creating new options for behavior.
Brain-aligned Strategies for Re-wiring Brains and Re-patterning Nervous Systems Learning Objectives:
- Examine the neurobiological reasons why some strategies are more effective at certain times.
- Identify approaches and appropriate expectations and goals that correspond to different arousal states.
- Discover practical tools for helping students return to regulated states where learning is possible.
Handouts: Please download and/or print the handouts below before viewing the recorded video.
Nervous System Symptoms
Brain-aligned Strategies
Brain-aligned Strategies for Re-wiring Brains and Re-patterning Nervous Systems 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.