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For educators of grades 6–12

Whole Child Approach to Improving Student Outcomes for Secondary Educators: Understanding Young and Middle Adolescence, ages, 11-17

To thrive in school and life, children must be safe, happy, healthy, engaged, and supported. The Whole Child workshop for secondary educators dives into the developmental milestones during the “risk-taking years” of adolescents ages 11–17.

Risky behavior tends to follow a typical trajectory: it is low in childhood, increases around puberty, peaks in adolescence through early adulthood, and then decreases in adulthood. Risky behaviors often reflect the uneven gap between an adolescent’s physical and social maturity. While adolescents are progressing into adulthood, their decision-making processes are quite mismatched to their physical and biological maturity.

This workshop places an emphasis on teaching protective skills during the risk-taking years to help
adolescents avoid the risky behavior that is natural for this age. Teaching these skills can lower the amount of risk factors for bad decision-making and increase protective factors to help them make good, informed choices as they journey to middle and high school.


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What’s Included

  • 6 hours of professional development
  • Certificate of completion
  • Resource Book
  • Yardsticks: A Guide to Child and Adolescent Development, 4th edition (book)

What You’ll Learn

  • The early and middle adolescence stages of development and the shifts in the developmental markers as children transition from childhood.
  • The difference between risky behavior and risk-taking during adolescence.
  • How educators can explicitly teach the skills students need during this time to remain safe, healthy, and happy as they traverse the risk-taking years.

What You’ll Leave With

  • Strategies you can use to support your students’ behavior and well-being as they manage and navigate the ordinary daily stress of adolescent responsibility and decision-making.
  • Tools and information that you can share with parents to help them understand their child as they journey through adolescence.
Cambridge, MA - Mar 17, 2027
Chicago, IL - Mar 24, 2027
Eastern/Central
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Available Course Locations

Dates, locations, and formats for this course.

Dates
Time
Location
Courses
3/3/27 - 3/3/27
9:00am - 4:00pm EST
8:00am - 3:00pm CST
Eastern/Central
Virtual
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3/17/27 - 3/17/27
8:30am - 3:30pm
Cambridge, MA
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3/17/27 - 3/17/27
9:00am - 4:00pm EST
8:00am - 3:00pm CST
Eastern/Central
Virtual
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3/18/27 - 3/18/27
9:00am - 4:00pm MST
8:00am - 3:00pm PST
Mountain/Pacific
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3/24/27 - 3/24/27
8:30am - 3:30pm
Chicago, IL
In-Person
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