Train-the-Trainer: Restorative Practices for Improved Student Behavior

Presented by Susan Jones
Outstanding Educator, Author, and National Presenter

Designed Specifically for Grades K-12 School and District Trainers, Teachers, Counselors, Instructional Specialists and Coaches, Behavior Intervention Specialists, and School Administrators

Train your teachers to create a more trauma-aware, restorative approach to student behavior
Learn the key components of restorative practices you can train staff to implement immediately
Build expertise among your staff to address and significantly improve student behavior
Receive critical information on how to deliver high-quality, engaging, and effective restorative practice training sessions to your staff

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Imagine having the capacity to help all your students improve their self-control, experience fewer feelings of anxiety, and approach the school experience with greater success! When students are better equipped to handle the turbulence associated with life's challenges and the changing learning environments they have experienced over the last few years, they can turn a corner toward success. Join outstanding and motivating national speaker Susan Jones in this NEW, two-day, idea-packed train-the-trainer institute that focuses on practical and doable restorative discipline strategies you can use to significantly improve your student's behavior.

Susan will provide the best, current information on how to implement trauma-aware systems of restorative practices that you can help everyone learn how to incorporate into their classrooms and throughout school or district sites. With restorative practices, your students will be better equipped to self-regulate, recognize, and handle the emotions that cause the behaviors that get them in trouble in class, online, and in social situations. In addition, these teacher-tested restorative practices will enhance your students' ability to focus during instruction, which results in higher achievement. You will not want to miss this opportunity to learn innovative and new ways to reduce the challenging behaviors that get in the way of teaching and learning.

This two-day train-the-trainer institute is designed to give you practical tools and strategies to better address the needs of teachers who are dealing with challenging student behavior. You will leave with numerous strategies to train your staff in helping their students to become more aware of the emotions, reactions and frustrations that impact their ability to focus and increase learning and success in school. Register now for two fast-paced days packed with ideas to train your staff in incorporating more trauma-aware, restorative practices and improving student behavior.

A Practical, Two-Day Institute to Train Your Teachers on Restorative Practices to Reduce Challenging Student Behaviors

Plan to leave this institute equipped to provide district or school training on using restorative practices for reducing student misbehavior. Learn how to improve student behavior and increase your effectiveness using trauma-aware restorative practices. Learn the immediate components of restorative practices with the greatest impact on student behavior and how to target areas for ongoing improvement. Leave with a wealth of knowledge in restorative practices to improve students' self-control and decrease their challenging behaviors and feelings of anxiety and highly practical tools and strategies for a personalized plan to improve student behavior in your school(s).
Send one or more staff members or a team to this training program and they will return with effective professional development strategies and practical resources to support and train your teachers to work effectively with their students' challenging behaviors. Participants will learn:

Tools and resources to train staff to reduce challenging student behaviors
Practical and doable restorative practice strategies you can provide to your colleagues immediately
How to engage staff in more productive conversations about their students' behavior
How to effectively implement trauma informed practices
Guidance for facilitating training and implementation of trauma aware restorative practices

This Two-Day Train-the-Trainer Program is a Cost-Effective Way to Train Staff in Improving Student Behavior

If you are interested in providing high-quality training in working with challenging student behaviors to your teachers, school(s), or district, this is the perfect opportunity. Send one teacher, staff leaders or a team and they will leave with an extensive digital resource training handbook filled with all the tools needed for their own restorative practices training to improve student behavior. The focus of the two-day training will be on supporting staff in implementing the crucial components of restorative practices necessary to improve student behavior.

Support and Train your Teachers, including:

Learn the key benefits of Trauma Informed Restorative Practices and how it can make a significant difference in all your students' success
Practical restorative strategies to decrease students' anxiety and reduce challenging behaviors
Ideas for staff to teach students how to better pay attention during instruction
Tips for developing and delivering high-impact training for your teachers – whether it be short and quick or longer sessions
How trauma aware restorative practices can create a more positive emotional state that can reduce anxiety and increase learning
Combine trauma aware restorative practices with strategies to help students monitor their own physical and mental states for improved behavior and more learning
Guidance for facilitating training to target students who struggle with behavior
Help staff Incorporate trauma aware restorative practice interventions into IEPs or behavior plans
How trauma aware restorative practices will help students feel more connected to themselves, their surroundings, and their peers
Powerful strategies to engage staff in more productive conversations about students' challenging behaviors
Strategies that teach students to be aware of and responsible for their own emotions and behavior
How to teach improving students' executive function skills to override emotional reactivity
Realistic and doable ways to incorporate daily calming practices focused with awareness
Practical and doable ways to teach creating a safe and trusting classroom and school environment
How to teach specific metacognitive strategies involved in more successful thinking and learning
Leave with an extensive digital resource training handbook filled with the tools needed for your own restorative practice trainings, additional resources, and a PowerPoint template for training your staff

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

When you ask someone to name a person who has had a lasting impact on their life, it is often a teacher whom they felt respected and took an interest in helping them see their potential. But our students are changing. They come to school less prepared, more anxious, and less able to focus. We hear our colleagues say that their students appear unmotivated and unable to see the value of school in their own lives. All of these can cause difficult behaviors that make teaching less rewarding and more challenging for us all, in the classroom and as a system.

A practical and real solution to some of these critical issues is to incorporate trauma-aware restorative practices into our daily routines to help students understand their communication, their emotions and begin to increase self-control, attention and regulation that will help them be more successful students. This strategy-packed two-day train-the-trainer institute will cover dozens of tools and resources you can use to train your staff on trauma-aware restorative practices in ways that will make a significant difference for your students and staff. You'll learn highly practical strategies that will help students strengthen the connectivity between areas of the brain that support attention and concentration, and the thinking parts of the brain which shut down when in an anxious or stressed state. Training your staff in how to put trauma aware restorative practices into action will help your most challenging students make better decisions at school and in social situations.

I hope you will join me and your colleagues for an action-packed, motivating two days that will equip you with the tools, resources, strategies, and the inspiration to make restorative practices a more powerful part of your schools' everyday program to increase students' emotional wellness and academic success. I look forward to our two days together!

Sincerely,
Susan Jones

P.S. The focus of this two-day train-the-trainer institute will be on practical tools and resources to train your staff how to use trauma-aware restorative practices to significantly reduce challenging behaviors.

Who Should Attend

Grades K-12 School and District Trainers, Teachers, Counselors, Instructional Specialists and Coaches, Behavior Intervention Specialists, and School Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this Restorative Practices Train-the-Trainer institute. The handbook includes:

Training resources to support teachers in improving student behavior
Ready-to-use ideas for training teachers to use a more trauma aware restorative approach
Highly practical interventions that lead students to better self-control and academic success
Training tools and tips for effectively implementing restorative practices

Consultation Available
Susan Jones will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.

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