Evolution of a Synergetic Education

$375-$475 | 18-22 CE Hours | 3-Year Access | Virtual Live Webinars and Recorded Lessons | Eligible for up to 22 hours for Relicensure

Overview

The Evolution of a Synergetic Educator (ESE) is a virtual program for educators who want to deepen how they understand and respond to behavior, regulation, and engagement in educational settings. Participants learn how stress, arousal, and brain and body states shape learning and behavior in real time, how to recognize the patterns driving escalation and disconnection, and how to design environments and interactions that support regulation, engagement, and growth.

ESE addresses common challenges in schools. Educators are often expected to respond to complex behavior and learning needs using strategies that do not fully address what is happening beneath the surface. They are trained to use strategies that do not consistently work and are often asked to do more than is sustainable or outside the scope of their role. Instead of relying on strategies to manage behavior, participants learn to recognize the patterns and conditions shaping behavior and respond in ways that align with those dynamics. This shift supports interrupting escalation cycles and making moment-to-moment decisions that align with student and adult capacity.

Over the course of the program, participants deepen their ability to see and design educational environments through a regulation lens — not just apply strategies. They apply these understandings in ways that fit their role, context, and scope of practice, supporting meaningful change without increasing workload or reliance on constant intervention. This creates more sustainable classroom experiences while strengthening educators’ clarity, discernment, and impact in daily practice.

Who This Program is For

ESE offers two focus options based on your role and scope of work. Both are grounded in the same framework and core learning experience, with differences in how that learning is applied.

Student-Centered Focus

Student-Centered Focus dives into what shapes learning and behavior and how aligning responses with current needs can shift what’s possible in the classroom. This focus is for educators whose work is primarily student-facing and who are responsible for responding to behavior and engagement in real time.

This includes educators who:

Work directly with students in learning environments
Are responsible for managing behavior and supporting engagement as it unfolds
Want to deepen their understanding of student behavior through a regulation- and capacity-informed lens
Are looking for practical ways to respond that support learning, regulation, and growth without relying on constant intervention

Dual Focus

Dual Focus includes everything taught in Student-Centered Focus and extends that learning into adult-facing work, whether you work with both students and adults or primarily with adults.

This includes educators who:

Provide collaboration, consultation, coaching, or leadership to adults within schools
Support other educators in navigating behavior, learning, and classroom dynamics
Want to strengthen their ability to work across roles, perspectives, and levels of readiness
Are looking to apply a regulation-informed lens in ways that support both students and the adults who work with them

What You’ll Learn

Student-Centered Focus

Participants develop the capacity to:

Understand student behavior through a regulation- and capacity-informed lens
Recognize how stress, arousal, and nervous system states shape learning and behavior in real time
Respond to students in ways that support engagement, regulation, and growth during moments of challenge
Use awareness of brain and body states to apply strategies and understand why an approach might work in one moment and not another
Recognize missing elements in universal and social-emotional learning programs and identify simple ways to incorporate these critical pieces
Identify patterns that lead to escalation and interrupt stuck interaction cycles
Design classroom environments that support increasing independence and responsibility over time
Collect and use meaningful data to guide the creation of layered support plans

Dual Focus

In addition to learning everything in the Student-Centered Focus, participants develop the capacity to:

Understand adult experience through a regulation- and capacity-informed lens and model approaches that support managing daily stress and anxiety
Discern your role when supporting adults across different levels of readiness while strengthening their capacity to navigate challenging behaviors and complex, changing classroom dynamics
Analyze factors impacting arousal states and relational challenges, and identify points of influence for shifting interaction patterns and supporting the development of growth-focused relationships
Support educators in integrating missing elements within their classrooms and systems to strengthen universal programming
Collaborate with educators to create environments where students and staff can meet regulatory needs without impacting others’ learning
Recognize how different roles can work together in complementary ways to facilitate more effective and meaningful collaboration
Use the Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ to support staff from a developmental perspective, meeting them where they are

How the Program Progresses

Student-Centered Focus: 10 Classes

Class 1: Preparing Brains to Learn (Live Webinar)
Class 2: Developing Self-Regulation and Interoception (Recorded Lesson)
Class 3: Brain-Aligned Strategies (Recorded Lesson)
Class 4: Growing Windows of Tolerance & Shifting Perceptions (Live Webinar)
Class 5: Practical Classroom Strategies for Creating Regulatory Environments (Recorded Lesson)
Class 6: The Neurobiology of Regulating Ourselves and Others (Recorded Lesson)
Class 7: Relationship Dynamics and Challenges (Live Webinar)
Class 8: Relationship Dynamics and Individual Differences (Recorded Lesson)
Class 9: Layered Social-Emotional Behavior Plans Through a Regulatory Lens (Recorded Lesson)
Class 10: Tying Things Together and Moving Forward (Live Webinar)

Dual Focus: 11 Classes

Class 1: Preparing Brains to Learn (Live Webinar)
Class 2: Developing Self-Regulation and Interoception (Recorded Lesson)
Class 3: Brain-Aligned Strategies (Recorded Lesson)
Class 4: The Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™: Working with Educators from a Developmental Perspective (Live Webinar)
Class 5: Growing Windows of Tolerance & Shifting Perceptions (Live Webinar)
Class 6: Practical Classroom Strategies for Creating Regulatory Environments (Recorded Lesson)
Class 7: The Neurobiology of Regulating Ourselves and Others (Recorded Lesson)
Class 8: Relationship Dynamics and Challenges (Live Webinar)
Class 9: Relationship Dynamics and Individual Differences (Recorded Lesson)
Class 10: Layered Social-Emotional Behavior Plans Through a Regulatory Lens (Recorded Lesson)
Class 11: Tying Things Together and Moving Forward (Live Webinar)

Program Details

	Student-Centered Focus	Dual Focus
Total Hours	21 hours	26 hours
Investment	$375 (payment plan available)	$475 (payment plan available)
Format	Live webinars, recorded lessons, consultation groups	Live webinars, recorded lessons, consultation groups
Access	3 years	3 years
Continuing Ed	18 hours eligible for professional development and relicensure	22 hours eligible for professional development and relicensure and NBCC continuing ed credit available
Graduate Credit	1-2 credits available through Colorado State University	1-3 credits available through Colorado State University

Enroll in ESE

CE Credit Hours: 22 CE Credit Hours, NBCC Content Areas: Human Growth and Development for the Dual Focus Cohort

Synergetic Education Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7907. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Synergetic Education Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Presenter: Judith Norman, MA, MS, LPC-S, LSC, RPT-S