Moving the Needle 2019: Full Schedule

10:10am CST

Books that Heal

Come join us for a fun and fresh way to discover books that provide students with hope and healing. Our time together will equip you with rich literature that reaches the heart. Some of our topics include: problem-solving, loss, resilience, diversity, addiction, empathy, and many more. You'll leave with book ideas that inspire will your teaching and help heal hearts. Come, explore, and discuss books that provide a bright future for our students.

Speakers

Carmen Zeisler

Director of Essdack Learning Centers/ Resilience Team , ESSDACK

Carmen Zeisler is the Director of the ESSDACK Learning Centers, an Educational Consultant/Coach, and a co-founding member of the ESSDACK Resilience Team. In Learning Centers, she has been instrumental in leading a Redesign process through Project-Based Learning. In schools, Carmen... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2019 10:10am - 11:00am CST
Room 180

Session One

11:00am CST

Lunch

Thursday November 14, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Room 180

Lunch

1:10pm CST

Wiring the Brain for Resilience

Speakers

Katie Perez

Resilience Team, ESSDACK

Carmen Zeisler

Director of Essdack Learning Centers/ Resilience Team , ESSDACK

Thursday November 14, 2019 1:10pm - 2:00pm CST
Room 180

Session Two

2:10pm CST

Building a Deep Foundation of Staff Resilience

Change is HARD and our staff is feeling the stress of change. Come learn (and practice) super fun ways to regularly and intentionally build a foundation of resilience within your staff with games, fun, challenges, and most importantly deeper peer connection. This is an active session with takeaways.

Speakers

Ginger Lewman

Author, Keynoter, Consultant, Resilience Team Member, ESSDACK

Ginger is a national consultant & keynote speaker with ESSDACK, a non-profit education service center based in Hutchinson Kansas. She inspires and helps all levels of educators figure out the ins and outs of Project/Problem/Passion Based Learning, technology integration, and working... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2019 2:10pm - 3:00pm CST
Room 180

Session Three

3:10pm CST

Hold On! Everyone is Freaking Out

Creating a trauma-responsive team is a huge overhaul to the way most schools or organizations do business. Change is messy and often people spin out. Moreover, when staff gets stuck, often times we struggle to know how to help. In this session, we will discuss heart shifts that sustain through a process called a Culture Audit. This specialized process helps to unite, heal and move staff forward - together. Participants will leave with a strategy to shift people from catabolic energy to anabolic energy. A must not miss for organizations or schools implementing trauma-responsive change.

Speakers

Tamara Konrade

Thursday November 14, 2019 3:10pm - 4:00pm CST
Room 180

Session Four

10:10am CST

Communicating to Heal and Unite

Effective communication doesn't involve a lot of talking. It is active listening coupled with affirmations and asking questions. The strategies learned and practiced in this session will allow the talker to finally "feel heard."

Speakers

Tamara Konrade

Kelly Turcotte

Friday November 15, 2019 10:10am - 11:00am CST
Room 180

Session Five

11:00am CST

Lunch

Friday November 15, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Room 180

Lunch

1:10pm CST

Punishment versus Disciplne: More Than a Pound of Flesh

What is the difference between punishment versus discipline in a trauma-informed setting? What happens when we deeply understand this but still get triggered by kids and loved ones and wind up in the "pound of flesh" mentality? Is ISS trauma-informed? Is detention trauma-informed? How do we help brains wired for fight/flight/freeze heal and become wired for cause and effect brains? In this session we will unpack all of this and learn a co-regulation strategy that both buffers and heals.

Speakers

Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz

Resilience Team, ESSDACK

Friday November 15, 2019 1:10pm - 2:00pm CST
Room 180

Session Six

2:10pm CST

The New 3 R’s - Relationships, Regulation, and Resilience = Redesign!

How do we begin to make the shift from traditional school practices to trauma responsive schools who build resilience within our students? School redesign paves the way to move schools from traditional practices to true school families! Logan Avenue Elementary staff will share structures and practices that have helped build our school family around resilience and love based approaches. Ideas related to how the redesign principles align with trauma responsive care will be explored as well as an emphasis on how to manage the change over time. Becoming a school focused on raising resilience is a journey, and collaboration with colleagues is key in the success of our work. We are excited to collaborate with your school in the journey!

Speakers

Jessica Griffin

Friday November 15, 2019 2:10pm - 3:00pm CST
Room 180

Session Seven