Time to move from skill-building to cultivating environments that promote individual and collective growth, so each student has the space to flourish.  By utilizing trauma and community responsive approaches coupled with neurotype-responsive practices, we will explore how the design of classroom spaces, daily routines, and relationships can actively promote success for every learner. Participants will engage with frameworks that encourage intentional decision-making, reduce power struggles, and enhance emotional safety. Together, we will explore class wide frameworks that help students access “doses of regulation” throughout the day, anchoring their learning in self-awareness and self-advocacy. We will explore the question, “What does a regulatory environment look like?” to understand how such an environment feels, functions, and transforms interactions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will identify actionable strategies that support students in recognizing and navigating their own experiences, with a focus on fostering self-advocacy across learning environments.
  • Participants will apply a framework for reframing conflict through intentional, regulation-promoting choices that disrupt power struggles in interactions.  

Class Materials

Handouts:

If there are any handouts associated with this module you will find them both in the “Program Handouts” lesson and in this section. Use the links below to download and/or print the materials.

Videos:

To view the content, please click on the link.

  • Module 7 Video (1:04 hours)
  • Stress, Trauma, and the Brain: Insights for Educators – Bruce Perry Video
  • Students exploring and talking about learning tools video:
    • https://synergeticeducation.com/understanding-learning-tools-its-all-about-self-regulation/
  • Virtual regulation room resource
    • https://synergeticeducation.com/virtual-regulation-room/
    • Once you’ve entered the virtual regulation room clip on the drums to go to the rhythmic
      beats room.
    • Click on dog for the interoception room

You will need to use password to access the course content: Mod7RegEnv

Please click on  the quiz located in the “Lesson Content” section below  to complete the Class quiz. You must pass the quiz with a score of 80% or higher to move on to the next lesson of the program.