Join in this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with experiential, brain-based techniques to inspire motivate, and meet the diverse needs of students while building a positive and supportive learning community. We will explore a variety of ways to involve learners emotionally, socially, physically, and intellectually in academic and social-emotional learning. These strength-based approaches help educators differentiate instruction and promote connections between educational experiences and real life situations and future learning.

We will explore:

• Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage students physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually
• New research from the field of educational neuroscience and its impact on learning and social-emotional skills development
• Methods for creating a positive and supportive environment for learning, starting on day one and maintaining it throughout
• Strategies for increasing  involvement, buy-in, and ownership of learning experiences
• Interactive activities to build community while enlivening academic lessons and differentiating instruction
• Experiential, brain-based teaching approaches to teach, review, and reinforce lessons in a dynamic and engaging way
• Engaging group-building activities to develop rapport, community, and social-emotional skills such as positive communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and decision-making
• Innovative reflection tools and techniques to increase relevancy, meaning, depth of understanding, and connection to future learning situations
• The role of the educator/facilitator as guide, and the importance of flexibility, attitude, adaptation, and awareness of group and individual needs and differences

Pre-conference and Conference Sessions at the Annual Music City Social and Emotional Learning Conference hosted by Alignment Nashville and Metro Nashville Public Schools

To register visit: SELconference.org

For more information email: jen@experientialtools.com