Professional Development Topics

Help your staff break through the jargon and understand what it means to be a trauma informed school:

-Build Relationships

-Build Social-Emotional Skills

-Build Understanding

Help your developing MTSS team understand all the systems that must be in place to most effectively provide universal SEL supports, identify at-risk students, implement evidence-based interventions, and monitor progress over time.

Understand what you need to do to develop or improve your social and emotional programs

This training is designed for school specialists that provide consulting services to educational staff. Participants will understand what it means to engage in consultee-centered consultation, implementing strategies based on their staff’s personal goals and willingness to change.

Teachers are responsible for managing behavior and emotional dysregulation as part of Tier 1 intervention. Determining the best approach requires an understanding of why and when the behavior occurs. This training helps educational staff learn to identify the meaning of a behavior so a functionally informed solution can be used with high likelihood of success

School counselors must be equipped with a range of evidence-based skills to best support mental health needs. Alex provides beginner and advanced trainings in the following topics:

-Cognitive Behavior Therapy

-Dialectical Behavior Therapy

-Motivational Interviewing

Students need more than just knowledge to reach their academic potential. Initiating work, planning and organizing assignments, sustaining attention, these all fall under the umbrella of executive functioning skills. Participants learn how to embed executive functioning skill deficit in the classroom, identify students who need more, and provide tiered coaching services so that students can implement these skills independently for the rest of their lives.

Anxiety disorder rates are on the rise in this country. There are many factors for this, including the pernicious effects of social media. However, the greatest factor is the way that our society views negative emotional states. All too often, we choose to accommodate away distress instead of arming our students with the tools needed to tolerate and overcome emotional discomfort. This training reviews the factors that reinforce anxiety in school and discusses concrete steps that can be taken to move to a new approach: building self-regulation skills so students can thrive despite emotional obstacles