Pre-Conference Workshops
Executive Functioning: What's the Support?
Participants will learn about how the brain works and how we can adjust to meet students where they are. Executive functioning is the ability to organize cognitive processes. This includes the ability to plan, prioritize, stop and start activities, shift from one activity to another activity, and monitor one’s behavior. It affects everything we do, so when a student has differences in these processes it can cause a barrier to their access, engagement, and progress in their education. During this learning event, we will focus on how to support versus “fix” these differences to support students being the best them they can be.
Objectives:
- Gain a basic understanding of processing
- Moving from “fix” methods to supportive methods
- Expanding participant's knowledge of strategies to support executive functioning differences
Resources: https://snswi.com/EX
Facilitated by Katie Berg
Katie Berg, MA Ed., Supporting Neurodiverse Students Statewide Coordinator
Katie has been supporting students for more than 20 years. In the private sector, public education, and statewide through an IDEA Discretionary Grant her experiences include providing one on one therapy, classroom teaching, administration, resource brokering, consulting, coaching, along with district and statewide training. Katie has experience working with unique neurodiverse learners focusing on the social and emotional skills that help students and educators support behaviors that are challenging to adults.
Fostering a Resilient School Culture: Application of the Compassion Resilience Toolkit in your Individual and School Practices
Imagine a consistently caring culture in your school; one where, each day, students and staff can make the transition from home and community into the school environment and demonstrate a high level of compassion for each other. The work towards this vision begins with the leadership and staff in the organization. School staff are being asked to support the social and emotional skills of students, to deliver high academic outcomes, to make positive connections with families, and to be trauma sensitive. These high expectations cannot be met outside the context of a positive and compassionate staff culture.
The Compassion Resilience Toolkit provides strategies and resources to promote and support school culture. The toolkit explores what compassion looks like in action, to recognize compassion fatigue, and build skills that foster the resilience needed when working with individuals and families who face complex challenges. This interactive workshop will engage participants in the toolkit, focusing on important conversations about expectations, boundaries, staff culture, and individual and group practices to sustain wellbeing. Participants will leave the workshop with a free tool they can use on an individual, team, and system level to build a culture of compassion resilience.
Facilitated by Rogers Behavioral Health: Brittany Fair & Emily Jonesberg
Brittany Fair works at Rogers Behavioral Health as a training specialist. In this role, she facilitates trainings for leaders in the non-profit, education, and healthcare sectors across the country. Brittney also facilitates programming for staff at Rogers Behavioral Health and with parents in the community. Prior to joining the team, Brittney worked for Meta House as a Senior Residential Support Specialist and a Lead Care Coordinator for Wisconsin Community Services with the Mental Health and AODA population. Brittney earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Brittney received her Master of Social Work from Concordia University-Wisconsin and is an Advanced Practicing Social Worker, working towards becoming a Licensed Social Worker in Wisconsin.
Emily Jonesberg (she, her, hers) is an advocate for the creation of compassionate cultures grounded in equity and trauma informed practices. In her role as the Program Manager for Rogers Behavioral Health’s Community Learning and Engagement department, Emily supports a suite of evidence-informed programs aimed to eliminate mental health stigma and enhance organizational culture. Emily has over 15 years of mental health and equity programming work in the school, non-profit, and healthcare sectors. She has a Master of Social Work, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and is a returned Peace Corps volunteer.
Registration Fees for Pre-conference Workshops
Executive Functioning: What's the Support?
Morning (9 a.m. - noon)
Individual - Early Bird Fee: $79; Standard Fee: $99
Student: $49
Compassion Resilience
Afternoon (1 - 4 p.m.)
Individual - Early Bird Fee: $79; Standard Fee: $99
Student: $49
The registration deadline is February 20.
Cancellation Policy: If you cancel up to 3 days in advance of the event, you will receive a 100% refund minus a $25 administrative fee. If you cancel less than 3 days in advance of the event, you will not receive a refund.
Conference Sponsors
The School District of South Milwaukee in partnership with Alverno College and WCEP
