Reimagining Behavioral Health and Special Education Through a Neuroscience Lens
This program is a comprehensive professional development opportunity that fully meets the Behavioral Health and Special Eucation Relicensure Requirements for Colorado Educators. It meets standards for professional development requirements meaning it likely will count towards relicensure in many other locations as well.
Unlock the science, soul, and systemic wisdom behind today’s most vital educational shift. This dynamic 10-part video series (13 hours of content) empowers educators, school leaders, and support professionals to build trauma-informed, neurotype-responsive environments where every learner can thrive.
From the first foundational step, defining behavioral health within the educational landscape, to exploring the neurobiology of regulation, the architecture of safety and belonging, and the frameworks that bring empowerment-focused practices to life, this program delivers actionable insight with heart and precision.
Each module is a deep dive into practical strategies and transformative mindsets: Practical and visionary, this program bridges evidence-based neuroscience with policy, relational teaching, and legal clarity, without losing the emotional heartbeat of education. Whether you’re designing learning spaces, supporting complex behaviors, or decoding acronyms like FAPE, MTSS, and IDEA, these modules meet you where you are and move you toward systemic coherence.
Let’s move beyond interventions and into transformation. Your classroom, your school, and your students deserve it.
We’re so glad you’ve decided to join us on this journey!
Judy and the SEI Team
Navigating the Learning Platform:
Click here to watch a 4-minute video that will walk you through the learning platform and show you where to find everything you need to be successful in this program. While watching this video, and all videos, the images you see below will be in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, to turn on closed-captioning, simply click on the cc icon (it is circled in red below), you will have the option of choosing English auto-generated captions, or customizing the captions.
Meet Your Instructor:
Judith Norman, MA, MS, LPC-S, LSC, RPT-S is a co-founder and the lead trainer at the Synergetic Education® Institute. Licensed as both a School and Professional Counselor, she has spent 25 years working at the intersection of education and mental health. As a teacher, mental health professional, consultant, and the creator of the Learning Tools™ and Braindrops™ frameworks and the Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™, Judith collaborates internationally with school communities.
Judith has been a School Counselor at Title One schools and two-way bilingual immersion schools, has worked at the district level as a Social Emotional Learning Coach in the United States, and as a School Counselor and Director of Guidance at an international school overseas. Judith trains and supervises both school-based and clinical mental health professionals. Judith speaks nationally, and consults, and teaches internationally, has developed SEL and trauma-informed programming across various levels of school functioning, and has supported Department of Education state-wide initiatives with district and state-wide training for educators, school-based mental professionals, and educational leaders. Judith led her school district in implementing a Kaiser Permanente “Thriving Schools Grant,” aimed at advancing social-emotional wellness and behavioral health in school districts. Judith co-authored a chapter with Lisa Dion in “Play-Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families.”
To get started and begin accessing the program lessons, you will first need to complete and agree to the Program Agreements. Please click on “Behavioral Health Program – Program Agreements” under “Course Content” below to begin!