While a literal learning system can be an absolute strength in some circumstances, it can also be a struggle when the academic and social worlds increase in complexity. This course explores how to better understand, support, and teach strategies for more literal thinkers with very literal interpretive systems. We’ll focus on strengths but will also have an honest conversation about how to listen to their individual goals while simultaneously helping them to gain skills and supported independence for adulthood in ways that make sense to them. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Explore the needs of students who desire friendships and relationships with their peer group but struggle with accessing social strategies in the moment. These students often exhibit solid to strong academic and language learning strengths, but report having social and academic goals that are impacted by compelling anxiety, perfectionism, executive functioning skills, and a lack of access to practical tools. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

The way most of us concentrate and focus our attention on things that matter has undergone a dramatic disruption in the past two decades. While what we need to do can be enhanced by technology, there are potentially even more digital factors that get in the way of meeting one’s academic, employment, and/or social goals. In this course, we will use a developmental lens as we introduce strategies to help students problem solve and self-evaluate how they set goals, make plans, and stay on task to foster executive functioning, while simultaneously and constantly being distracted by digital tools such as screens, phones, and watches. We’ll also take a deeper look at the latest research related to concentration and focus. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Educators, therapists, and caregivers have been asking for a motivating and fun way to teach elementary students social, emotional, and academic concepts. This short course will focus on the theory underlying core lessons and how to implement a detective and superhero themed social, emotional, and academic learning (SEAL) teaching series with fidelity. Consider this to be the essential crash course for implementing the Dynamic Duo Curriculum series with fidelity. Content is designed for students 7-11+ years. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

In this 90-minute course, we’ll explore motivation-based myths. We’ll then contrast this information with research-based, as well as tried-and-true methods, to help individuals rally their motivation so they can tackle basic to complex social and organizational goals. In this journey we’ll also explore factors that get in the way of motivation, such as anxiety, perfectionism, lagging social and organizational competencies, and/or digital device distractions, and then review practical strategies and tools to help individuals feel “they can” rather than “they can’t.” The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Download this free visual with practical ideas for initiating social conversations, which Michelle Garcia Winner presents in this course.

Loneliness is a dangerous national epidemic that has been growing in depth and complexity for many years. Loneliness not only endangers our mental and physical health, but it also can make us less kind and caring toward others, resulting at times in misbehavior at schools and within our communities. We’ll explore a range of research-informed ways we can cultivate meaningful relationships with others to foster our well-being, as well as kindness, empathy, and generosity of spirit toward others. Now more than ever, building social awareness, managing anxiety, and developing social communication strategies to combat this growing crisis of loneliness is critical for school-age children, tweens and teens, and all the way through the adult years. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

What is alexithymia? It refers to challenges in developing awareness of one’s feelings, identifying, and distinguishing them from other physical sensations—and it’s gaining interest in the research, schools, and clinical arenas. Educators and parents have reported an increase in overall “regulation” challenges in the classroom, on the playground, and during small group activities. We’ll highlight select key aspects of emotional awareness and regulation and its role in perspective taking. Specifically, we’ll explore how alexithymia can impact the building blocks for spontaneous perspective taking across all contexts. We will suggest practical strategies to increase awareness of feelings within the perspective-taking process to use within the classroom, school, community, and home. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Tweens, teens, and young adults are expected to naturally develop social and organizational competencies needed in school and across their lives. However, students with social learning and organized thinking differences (e.g., ADHD, twice exceptional, expressive receptive language, sensory processing, autism levels 1 and 2, etc.) may not intuitively learn these concepts and skills. This course will explore 5 critical life skills related to social emotional learning and organized thinking that can and should be directly addressed and taught to students & clients ages 11-22 in our homes, schools, and clinics. We’ll also review a variety of explicit metacognitive frameworks and practical strategies for teaching and learning these critical social competencies. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

This free downloadable is included with this course. Discover additional helpful resources and exclusive handouts designed to support kids and the adults who care for them as part of the course.

This 90-minute course features Dr. Tracey Marks, a practicing forensic psychiatrist of over 20 years, whose mission is to increase mental health awareness and understanding by educating people about supporting anxiety through practical tools. Dr. Marks has an enormous online following where she produces educational videos for managing stress, anxiety, and improving executive functioning. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.