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Professional Development

Healthy & Ready to Learn offers a series of professional development trainings to educators and school staff at no cost. These trainings are designed to promote a positive and connected school environment.

Healthy and Ready to Learn aims to fulfill the role of school climate partner, focusing on trauma-sensitivity and healing with an anti-racism lens to increase school and community capacity to help students succeed academically, stay healthy, feel safe and empowered by their environments, and have a positive outlook on the future. Our hope is that building healing centered schools and helping build positive and trauma-sensitive supports for students and families, will increase student’s readiness and availability to learn, increase resilience, and promote wellbeing across both their life course and academic careers.

To this aim, we are offering a series of professional development opportunities, designed to provide a framework for implementing best practices into your schools. These workshops have been designed to build off one another, but we do not require that you take them in linear order.

We are happy to work with you to determine which workshops best meet the needs of your school. Learn more about our training options below and join us either in-person or online to learn more about each of these topics! For educators in New York State, all of our trainings are Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) eligible.

We provide training in the following ways:

  • School-based Training Series: Individual schools must request a minimum of 3 workshops (We require that at least two are CTLE-eligible professional development workshops for staff). Our team will meet with school administration prior to scheduling in an effort to align training topics to school goals.
  • Organization Training: Community Based Organizations, city agency departments, or other NYC-based organizations can request single training sessions for professional development days, convenings, or conferences.

Trauma-sensitivity: What Works for Kids?

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This professional development training introduces the effects of trauma on students and school-wide strategies that can be implemented.

Building Trauma-sensitive School Environments

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Now that you know what trauma is, how do you take that information and start incorporating it into your school/team practice.

Combating the Single Story

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This workshop will teach participants how to be conscious of the ways that we talk about students that can impact and limit our work...

Strengths-based Conversations

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In this workshop participants will practice using strengths-based language to help facilitate difficult conversations, such as health referrals...

Staff Wellness

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Focus on the caregiver is an essential component of a healing-centered model, especially as we consider the compounded impact...

Connecting Families to Health Resources in Your Community

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This workshop provides a comprehensive toolkit for school staff to utilize in referring families to health services available in the community...
Early Childhood-Specific Training

The Power of Play

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This workshop will teach participants all about play, its significance in development, when it is appropriate, and how to reinforce it...

Trauma-sensitivity: What Works Age 0-5?

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Now that you know what trauma is, how do you take that information and start incorporating it into your school/team practice.

Attendance

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This workshop will teach participants how to be conscious of the ways that we talk about students that can impact and limit our work...
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