Critical Information

The number of children ages 3 to 17 struggling with anxiety or depression rose by 1.5 million between 2016 and 2020. Educators trained in resilience will fortify their students and raise their potential for learning.

Resilience in Your Classroom

From a solid foundation in resilience, faculty will learn how to apply this learning to their work in students. Through curriculum, addressing behavioral issues, and goal setting, we can cultivate healthier learners.
  • SELF
    To effectively intervene with students, we explore our motivation, bias and intention. Faculty members who understand the basis for dis-ease and the core elements of growing resilience to help their students, will be rewarded.
  • STUDENT
    Developing skills for effective student intervention is grounded in psychosocial emotional learning (PSEL). Fifteen skills are designed to help student learn how to constructively meet their needs.
  • School
    Each class nurturing the well-being of students will collectively establish the norms for the school. Faculty who can embody resilience will more easily cultivate healthy classroom climates.

Two modes for promoting student resilience

Synchronous solutions…

include facilitated small group discussion, coaching, workshops, and more. Our unique web events include live group therapy, humor workshops to infuse fun into the classroom and even live events with comedians. Enjoy the video example.

Asynchronous solutions…

include on-demand video engagements on a range of topics from autism to dealing with difficult students. Faculty (and parents) can learn the rubric for developing greater resilience, will pass along this learning to students. Please enjoy this video montage on student engagement from our on-demand video library.

On-demand virtual engagements

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BOO!

Boo another with a Ghost and candy

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Thankful Thursday

Last Thursday of every month. Coffee in the break room, all day

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360 Degrees of Integrity

Leaders who embody integrity have a remarkable strategic advantage. This video introduces a comprehensive method to influence through empowerment rather than disempowerment. Learn to be nimble.

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Anxiety in Children Part I

A live workshop filmed in a NJ district, exploring anxiety in children. Differentiate from attention problems, learning difficulties, social problems, and academic issues.

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Anxiety in Children Part II

Explore the reasons why children get anxious and how to differentiate from worry, fear, and panic. Also distinguish anxiety from ADHD, Learning Disabilities, and boredom (gifted).

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Anxiety in Children Part III

Learn why anxiety is on the rise and how educators on the front line are seeing more challenges to their work in the classroom. Live workshop questions and answers.

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Anxiety in Children Part IV

A more in depth look at the environmental and physiological causes of anxiety. Watch educators in the workshop explore their own beliefs and attitudes about this issue.

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Anxiety in Children Part V

Mindfulness is taught as a strategy to help children learn to self-soothe. The final segment in this live workshop will bring together theory and practice.

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Success Stories

VDOE

“Dr. Scherz presented at the Virginia Department of Education's Safe and Supportive Schools Conference in March 2019. Dr. Scherz presented content tailored to the audience and provided practical activities for educators to put into practice to help students, families, and school personnel. Dr. Scherz is very knowledgeable in many content areas and provided a keynote address that was engaging and communicated social emotional learning concepts in such a way that all attendees understood and followed his presentation. We were happy to have Dr. Scherz speak at our conference and we would consider reaching out to him for future presentations. “

Michael Gregory, VDOE Specialist, Virginia DOE