Nurturing Regulation: Empowering Educators & Students in the Classroom
By Judith Norman, MS, LSC, LPC, RPT-S Navigating the landscape of education presents a unique set of challenges. Educators must ensure that academic standards are being met while also dealing with the reality of stress in schools. Every day, we're confronted with stress reactions impacted by perceptions [...]
A Journey of Understanding: Connecting Education and Neuroscience
By Michelle Malvey, ED.S. Understanding why humans respond the way they do has always been fascinating to me. From my early days as a teacher to my roles as a school psychologist, district coordinator, and principal, every step in my 35+ years in education has been a [...]
Transforming Education: The Journey to Empower Educators & Students
By Judith Norman, MS, LSC, LPC, RPT-S People often ask about the work I do and why we started the Synergetic Education Institute. Well, I’ve been on this journey for quite some time … I’ve worked at the intersection of education and mental health for over 25 [...]
Using the Right Strategy at the Right Time
By Judith Norman, MS, LSC, LPC, RPT-S Aka - This is confusing, something works one time and not the next – what’s going on? How many times have you had a student engage in a behavior and be able to tell you after the fact what they [...]
Modeling a Healthy Relationship with Stress for Students
By Judith Norman, MS, LSC, LPC, RPT-S I sat down to write this many times and found myself getting stuck and feeling stressed out. There are so many important voices out there, what do I have to offer to a discussion? Then it hit me, that’s the [...]