Safe, predictable, and calm classroom communities focused on learning
What is classroom management and organization?
Classroom management is the pro-active process for building a safe and caring classroom community of active and engaged learners who learn and know how to meet social and behavioral expectations.
Classroom organization is the intentional and purposeful process of creating an orderly and frictionless learning environment through arranging the physical space, furniture, and materials, and management of time, interactions, transitions, tasks, and activities.
Classroom management and organization introduce predictability, structured routines and promote student responsibility, accountability and autonomy. They also offer so many benefits to students and teachers!
Responsive Classroom Workshops Designed for Classroom Management and Behavior Support
The Classroom Management and Behavior Support Series
A set of “how-to” workshops for K-12 educators, counselors, school and district administrators, new teachers and their mentors, coaches, behavior specialists, and interventionists focused on core classroom management practices such as routines and procedures, setting clear expectations, proactively preventing and quickly stopping off-task behavior and misbehavior, designing the physical layout of their classroom with the students and subject matter in mind, and organizing and managing traffic flow for safe movement and transitions.
Don’t wait, register now! Workshops in person and live-online available starting in October.
Reset and Regain Control: A great workshop for behavior support and interventionists (and all educators) to learn evidence-based strategies to:
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Creating Calm: Brain-Based Strategies for Learning, Regulation, and Performance
Practical strategies for K–12 educators across classrooms, counseling, athletics, and extracurricular learning environments.
A calm, supportive learning environment promotes brain-based learning by reducing stress and anxiety and improving students’ focus, memory, and emotional regulation.
When students feel safe and supported, the brain is better positioned to move from a heightened state of defense toward the attention, regulation, and higher-level thinking needed for learning and performance. Calm learning environments—whether in the classroom, in athletics, or in extracurricular settings—foster a sense of physical and emotional safety that is foundational to task completion, engagement, performance, and retention.
This workshop provides practical strategies that educators can use across K–12 learning environments to support students’ regulation, readiness, and engagement.
Ideal for all K–12 educators, but especially for guidance counselors, coaches, performing arts, educators who teach honors or remediation courses, curriculum and instructional leaders, and others who support teachers or have broad responsibility for setting conditions within schools insupport of student learning, athletic performance, and behavioral, social, emotional, and well-being outcomes.
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