Understanding and Responding to Classroom Challenges
This series is for all educators responding to student behavior that can be difficult to interpret and address within today’s classrooms. This includes teachers, school-based mental health professionals, paraprofessionals, behavior specialists and leaders. When behavior escalates, dysregulation spreads, and strategies that once worked no longer seem effective, it can feel difficult to teach or support students with confidence.
Introducing core concepts from the Synergetic Education Framework it provided a practical, classroom-centered approach for understanding what is happening beneath student behavior and how to respond in ways that support regulation and learning.
Rather than offering surface-level behavior management techniques, this series provides the core elements of our coherent framework that strengthens instructional practice and school-based clinical support—equipping professionals to work more effectively within today’s classrooms.
Grounded in applied neurobiology and a nervous system lens participants move from understanding the brain states that impact safety and learning, to recognizing regulation dynamics across a classroom, to supporting the development of self-regulation and matching strategies to students’ arousal states in real time.
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!