Join this engaging and interactive workshop and fill your teaching, counseling, or administrator toolbox with experiential, brain-based techniques to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons. Build a joyful, connected community and sense of belonging with students and staff. Explore tangible ways to bring learning to life and facilitate meaningful reflection. Integrate content with social and emotional learning through practical strategies to cultivate engagement, collaboration, student voice, self and social awareness.  Enhance your advisory, staff meetings, group circles, morning meetings, and academic engagement with dynamic student-centered participation methods that increase emotional connection and depth of understanding. Leave with creative inspiration, new perspectives, and networking connections with other educators.

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Participants will take away:

• Practical techniques to build a joyful, connected, and inclusive learning community

• Advisory, morning meetings, and group circles facilitation ideas, activities, and strategies

• Intentional approaches for promoting involvement, voice, choice, and ownership of learning

• Ways to deepen learning through emotional connection, relevancy, and reflection

• Creative inspiration and networking opportunities with other educators, leaders, and counselors

• Practical teaching strategies to integrate social and emotional learning and academics that you can facilitate with simple materials and adapt to various age groups

• Games and activities that teach empathy, self, and social awareness along with academics

• Classroom structures and teaching strategies to make experiential learning successful.

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The registration fee will include lunch and a copy of Jen's Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner book. 

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