How to Get Lakeside’s Neurologic Trauma-informed Training for Schools

One of the most exciting developments at Lakeside is that we are offering to our community, and to our country, our Neurologic Training for Schools.  

Compelling topics professionals can use to help students regulate and learn

Neurologic is a trauma-informed, brain-based training that features some of the most compelling topics for helping school professionals become skilled in how to help students regulate so they can learn more effectively.

However, it also provides training for administrators of schools that will create a whole new perspective on how a trauma-informed school should operate.  Neurologic takes the latest research in neuroscience and applies it directly to students, classrooms and the overall school environment.

Topic lists covered in our Neurologic Training for Schools:

BRAIN BASICS

• Four levels of brain development
• Impact of trauma and neglect on the brain
• Adverse childhood experiences study
• Cortical modulation
• Brain plasticity

DYSREGULATED STUDENTS

• Developmental dysregulation
• Continuum of arousal/brain states
• Impact on:
• Type of thinking / Functional IQ / Memory / learning / Heart rate / Sense of timeRelationships
• Regulation strategies (Top down / Bottom up / Horizontal)

TRAUMA INFORMED INTERVENTIONS FOR GROWTH & HEALING

• Healing developmental trauma and neglect
• Brain level specific interventions
• Brain maps
• Neurosequential Model of Education
• Choosing appropriate interventions
• Power of relationships
• Healing tools
• Dosage

TRAUMA INFORMED TEACHING STRATEGIES

• Teaching/Learning sequence
• Classroom supplies and equipment
• Brain breaks
• Brain based educational activities
• Creating a brain friendly learning culture

TRAUMA INFORMED CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

• Impact of teacher
• Co-regulation vs co-dysregulation
• Classroom structure
• Classroom interventions
• The power differential
• Avoiding power struggles
• Developing safety plans
• De-escalation strategies
• Timing and order of interventions

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

• Power of relationships
• Understanding relational templates
• Relational safety and trust
• Recognizing power differentials
• Setting appropriate relational expectations
• Attachment

EMPOWERING STUDENTS

• Teaching them about their brains
• Growth vs. fixed mindset
• Learning what interventions work for them
• Brain plasticity and hope

SELF CARE

• Compassion fatigue
• Personal regulation strategies
• Personal safety plan
• Avoiding secondary trauma

THE TEENAGE BRAIN

• The expanding period of adolescence
• The second wave of myelination
• A time of great opportunity
• Learning
• Stress
• Risk taking
• Decision making
• Motivation

COACHING

• Review of key ideas taught in training
• Continuing access to trained professional
• Opportunity to work through difficult students and situations
• Additional ideas and resources
• Individualized trainings to meet your specific needs

LEADERSHIP

• Resonant leadership
• Setting the stage
• Changing a school culture
• Systems reboot- a brain based look at school-wide policies
• Physical reboot – physical changes for big results
• Compassion fatigue- staff care and supervision

We currently offer Neurologic Training to public, charter and private schools live and by remote broadcast. We also offer coaching sessions to help teachers implement our Neurologic concepts throughout the school year.

We are truly excited to offer Neurologic training from our years of experience in working with challenging students.

Gerry Vassar, President/CEO, Lakeside Educational Network