Welcome to module 6, a piece of the Synegetic Education Institute’s Behavioral Health Program. This module will meet the requirement of at least one hour of behavioral health content that is culturally responsive and trauma- and evidence-informed.
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. 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. 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.
Thank you for joining us on the journey of growth and learning!
Happy Learning,
Judy Norman 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!