PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SEMINARS
Tools to engage students with compassion
See students through a wider lens, dismantle harmful narratives, and create school cultures with resilience, equity, and belonging.
You're asked to prepare students for life after high school, but the tools they’re given often stop at surface-level SEL.
The result? Students get labeled instead of understood, and staff are left frustrated, repeating the same patterns without any new or relevant strategies.
Step back and learn strategies that reframe student behavior.
These seminars are ideal for schools and organizations looking to strengthen staff capacity around equity, career readiness, and trauma-informed practice.
Each one is a stand-alone experience that can be booked individually or paired together for deeper impact.
Each seminar is designed to be interactive, reflective, and immediately applicable - giving you language, tools, and frameworks to use the next day.
Survival as Strategy
Career Advocacy through a Nuanced Lens
Students carry survival skills – adaptability, persistence, problem-solving – that too often go unnoticed. In this seminar, staff learn to recognize survival intelligence as career capital, and to advocate for students in ways that affirm their lived experience instead of diminishing it.
Participants will:
- Examine survival behaviors as transferable skills
- Reframe “problem” language into strength-based advocacy
- Practice using real student case studies (from your student caseload)
- Create a Student Advocacy Action Plan with strategies to implement
Demystify the Lazy Student
Reimagining Work Ethic
The label “lazy” shuts down potential and reinforces bias. This seminar helps staff unpack the cultural baggage tied to “work ethic” and reframe disengagement through a trauma-aware, culturally responsive lens. Walk away with practical tools to foster persistence, curiosity, and motivation without shaming students.
Participants will:
- Trace the myths and biases behind “work ethic”
- Analyze student case studies to uncover root causes of disengagement
- Roleplay reframing language and expectations in real-time
- Develop a personal definition of work ethic rooted in equity and humanity
Not sure where to get started?
Schedule a 15-min interest call
and we'll discuss how I can support you with solutions to your most pressing challenges.