Professional Development

You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup

Taking care of yourself is vital. It can be challenging to prioritize time for yourself when there are so many other people and things to take care of in life. But focusing on others, whether it’s family, students or friends, is difficult if you haven’t already taken care of your needs. We also need to call out the need for collective or community care, which is communal responsibility of the group rather than the lone task of an individual. By the end of this course, participants will be able to: understand the definitions of commonly used terms; increase knowledge about the ABCs of self-care; learn about collective care and healing-centered environments; complete your Action Plan with your self-care information.

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Welcoming Schools for LGBTQ Students

HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is a comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program that provides LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals. In addition to working with individual schools, the Welcoming Schools team works with districts to increase the internal capacity for districts to improve school climate by training facilitators within the district to deliver Welcoming Schools content to district educators.

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Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators

Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators (TISE), is a self-paced, user-friendly e-learning course designed to help K-12 educators recognize trauma and support students who may be affected by trauma. TISE contains eight modules. Modules 1–4 educate users about trauma and resilience. Modules 5–8 focus on building the skills needed to create a positive school climate, communicate in a trauma-informed way, de-escalate situations in the classroom, and collaborate with staff members to build a trauma-responsive school environment. There is a cost for this training.

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Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package

The Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package offers school and district administrators and staff a framework and roadmap for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach school- or district wide. The Training Package includes a variety of resources for educating school staff about trauma and trauma-sensitive practices and for providing school leaders with a step-by-step process for implementing a universal, trauma-informed approach using package materials.

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