One-day Workshops

In this one-day introduction to the Responsive Classroom approach, you’ll learn how Responsive Classroom practices help teachers to foster positive community, integrate academics with the teaching of social and emotional skills, and create the conditions for positive student behavior.

Bullying creeps into our classrooms like a weed. Learn how to spot it, stop it, and build a classroom rooted in community. Gain a deeper understanding of how key Responsive Classroom strategies create an inclusive environment to prevent bullying and dive into new strategies that support students working together.

Special area teachers face unique challenges—tasked with imparting expertise across grade levels, in small windows of time, often with an entire week between classes. You are also uniquely positioned to become experts in child development, supporting students as they grow and change year after year. Learn how core Responsive Classroom practices can be used to explore the opportunities and address the challenges of special area settings.

You already use Morning Meeting to transition students into the school day and build your classroom community. Now, learn how to enhance this essential practice by examining how each of its four components can be used to teach both social skills and learning behaviors and how Morning Meeting can increase academic engagement and improve connection to and understanding of the core curriculum.

Words are the foundation on which teaching, learning, and relationships are built. This workshop gives you the opportunity to assess, reflect upon, and improve both teacher and student language in your classroom in order to deepen academic engagement and learning.

We’ve all been there: power struggles, defiance, meltdowns—all those particularly thorny behaviors. Learn effective strategies for understanding, addressing, and reducing challenging behavior in the classroom.

Sustaining momentum and change can be a challenge. Many times teachers may start out strong and then lose steam both throughout the school day and the school year. Along the way, that excitement and enthusiasm for the approach may dwindle.

Students learn and grow best the adults in their community work together to support them. In this workshop, participants will learn how to apply Responsive Classroom principles and practices in non-classroom spaces, such as the cafeteria, after school programs, and on the bus, in order to create consistency between adult actions and student expectations throughout the day.

In this one-day for middle school teachers, participants will focus on their middle school students and the five major challenges that they face during adolescent development. The course offers an opportunity to take a detailed look at the Responsive Advisory Meeting Book and to learn about one of the seven purposes of the Responsive Advisory Meeting and how it can be utilized to meet the critical needs of students.

Building and Sustaining a Responsive School Culture for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning - Establish a sustainable school culture that supports and inspires adults and students alike!