AGIS Conference 2024 Potsdam

This one-hour session will focus on support systems that educators can build in their schools in the event of a mental health crisis of students with learning needs and/or SEL (social emotional needs).

The session will include the following components:

-Crisis definition and examples
-Case scenarios and vignettes (blinded and anonymous cases) and how to manage a crisis in the moment
-Students with Learning Needs and/or SEL needs and build your Crisis Team:
-Informing parents, supporting the student and the affected stakeholders, informing teachers and build a short -term support system
-Follow up with support (long-term)

The participants will form small teams and work on table top scenarios as drills.

Additionally, the presenter will distribute a helpful toolkit with Resources, Websites and Books/ sources for further reading and research.

This session, most importantly, offers resilience building, upskilling of AGIS educators and response-readiness.

Would you like to incorporate more hands-on “Maker” activities in your lessons?
After completing online PD from Project Zero at Harvard, I would like to share what I have learned. You will have the opportunity to practice several visible thinking routines and engage in a “Maker” activity, and I’m confident that you can transfer these routines into your own practice. After this session, I hope you will become better friends with your Hausmeister and some strangers on the internet!

Rough draft of presentation here.​​​​