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SUMMARY:Breakfast and Registration
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SUMMARY:You Matter More Than You Think: The Power of Classroom Support Staff- Keynote
DESCRIPTION:Teacher aides and classroom assistants play a critical role in shaping student experiences\, yet their impact is often overlooked. This keynote is designed to re-energize\, affirm\, and empower support staff by highlighting the essential role they play in student success\, classroom culture\, and school communities.\nThrough powerful storytelling and real-world insight\, I brings visibility to the emotional and instructional contributions of support staff. Participants will reflect on their influence\, reconnect with their purpose\, and leave feeling seen\, valued\, and motivated.\nThis keynote also addresses the realities of stress and burnout\, offering a mindset shift that helps participants protect their energy\, strengthen their presence\, and sustain their impact throughout the school year.\n\n
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SUMMARY:Sensory Play: More Than Just Play
DESCRIPTION:We will dive into what sensory play is and how it is applicable to the classroom learning environment. This hands-on presentation will also reveal how simple sensory play can be as well as tips and tricks to make sensory play set-up and break-down less stressful.
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SUMMARY:From Overwhelmed to Equipped: Practical Tools for Classroom Support & Self-Management
DESCRIPTION:Classroom support staff are expected to manage a wide range of responsibilities—from supporting instruction to navigating student behavior—all while maintaining professionalism and composure. This interactive workshop provides practical\, easy-to-apply strategies to help teacher aides and classroom assistants feel more confident\, prepared\, and supported in their role. Participants will build skills in communication\, behavior response\, and self-management\, while also learning how to regulate their own stress in high-demand moments. The session bridges the gap between knowing what to do and feeling confident doing it.
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SUMMARY:The Ripple Effect — Teaching Assistants as Agents of Student Growth
DESCRIPTION:\nEvery interaction matters. A well-timed question. A patient explanation. A moment of encouragement when a student is ready to give up. Teaching assistants are present for thousands of these moments every day — and when those moments are purposeful\, the impact spreads far beyond a single lesson or a single child.\n\n\nThe Ripple Effect is a professional development training designed for teaching assistants who want to do more than support the classroom — they want to transform it. Grounded in research on how students learn best\, this training equips teaching assistants with practical strategies for deepening student understanding\, building academic confidence\, and fostering the kind of learning that lasts.\n\n\nParticipants will explore how to ask questions that push thinking forward\, how to scaffold without doing the work for students\, how to recognize when a learner is stuck versus when they need space to struggle\, and how to build the trusting relationships that make all of it possible.\n\n\nThis is not a training about being helpful. It is a training about being impactful.\nBecause when a teaching assistant grows\, students grow. And when students grow\, so does everything around them.\n\n
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SUMMARY:Building Relational Trust and Connection with a Joyful Mindset
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Assistants occupy a uniquely powerful position in the classroom — often the first to notice a struggling student and the consistent presence that makes a child feel truly seen. This experiential workshop explores how an intentional\, joyful approach deepens that impact. Through relational exercises and hands-on activities\, TAs will experience firsthand how fun and genuine connection breaks down barriers\, opens communication\, and creates moments of shared joy that build authentic trust. Participants will explore how a mindset rooted in trust and warmth supports social-emotional development\, helps regulate anxious or disengaged students\, and creates the psychological safety where learning happens. A special focus on progressive risk-taking shows how carefully sequenced relational interactions build student confidence\, resilience\, and lasting connection — the quiet\, powerful work TAs do every day.\nThis is the first in a series of three workshops with Howard Moody that build on each other and also stand&nbsp\;alone.\n\n
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SUMMARY:The Power of Movement
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Exercise: The Educational Power of Movement is designed specifically for teacher aides and teaching assistants who support students throughout the school day. This interactive workshop explores how movement can be used as a powerful educational tool to improve student focus\, behavior\, emotional regulation\, participation\, and overall classroom engagement. Participants will learn how light physical activity and movement-based strategies can support diverse learners\, create inclusive environments\, and help students transition more successfully between academic tasks. Practical\, easy-to-implement movement activities and wellness strategies will be shared to help support both student learning and classroom success. Attendees will leave with simple tools they can immediately apply to enhance student readiness\, confidence\, and positive behavior across school settings.
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SUMMARY:Neuroaffirming Educational Practices: Supporting Learners from a Communication/Regulation Lens
DESCRIPTION:This professional development course explores neuroaffirming educational practices through the lens of speech therapy and neuroscience. Participants will deepen their understanding of how the brain processes communication\, language\, and learning\, and how to apply this knowledge to support neurodivergent learners. Grounded in current research and disabled voices\, the course emphasizes strengths-based\, respectful approaches to speech and language intervention that honor neurological diversity and promote meaningful\, inclusive outcomes in educational settings.
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SUMMARY:Neurodivergence and Science of Reading: Assisting Sensory Learners with the Reading Research
DESCRIPTION:We’re using the science of reading research and assisting exceptional children who learn best through sensory input. &nbsp\;In this session\, we will work together to discover how our neurodivergent students learn best with the science of reading research in action. &nbsp\;We will look at play-based techniques that help us construct and gamify our supports in ways that target sensory receptors.
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SUMMARY:The Invisible Sense
DESCRIPTION:We will briefly discuss what interoception\, often called the “invisible sense\,” is and how it affects self-regulation. We will also explore simple sensory strategies that can support this hidden sense throughout the day.
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SUMMARY:Motivating Kids to Learn
DESCRIPTION:Often times as teaching assistants\, we are faced with students who just don’t want to do the work. How do we motivate our students so they want to read\, write and study? One task at a time! Let’s learn how to make tasks small and engaging\, so we can get the most out of our readers\, writers and mathematicians.
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SUMMARY:See the Spark: How Strength-Based Practices Transform Student Motivation and Belonging
DESCRIPTION:What if the key to unlocking student motivation was already in the room? This workshop helps TAs shift from deficit thinking to a lens that sees and builds on every student's inherent potential. Grounded in growth mindset research and the principles of positive psychology\, participants will explore how recognizing and naming a student's character strengths — rather than focusing on what's missing — transforms motivation\, behavior\, and self-belief. Even students with the most challenging histories flourish when a trusted adult consistently reflects their value back to them. Participants will discover how playful\, low-stakes interactions are a natural vehicle for strength-spotting\, creating the joyful moments where resilience quietly takes root. Leave with practical tools to make strength-based practice a natural\, daily part of your work with students. This is the second in a series of three workshops with Howard Moody that build on each other and also stand alone.\n
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SUMMARY:The Power of Movement
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Exercise: The Educational Power of Movement is designed specifically for teacher aides and teaching assistants who support students throughout the school day. This interactive workshop explores how movement can be used as a powerful educational tool to improve student focus\, behavior\, emotional regulation\, participation\, and overall classroom engagement. Participants will learn how light physical activity and movement-based strategies can support diverse learners\, create inclusive environments\, and help students transition more successfully between academic tasks. Practical\, easy-to-implement movement activities and wellness strategies will be shared to help support both student learning and classroom success. Attendees will leave with simple tools they can immediately apply to enhance student readiness\, confidence\, and positive behavior across school settings.
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SUMMARY:Collaboration and Fun: Increasing Joy and Inclusion in Public School
DESCRIPTION:This presentation proposal focuses on supporting teacher aides in creating inclusive\, engaging\, and joyful learning experiences within self-contained classrooms. It will explore practical strategies for fostering student participation through collaborative activities\, sensory-friendly environments\, and project-based learning tailored to diverse needs. The session will also highlight total communication approaches recommended by speech-language pathologists\, including the use of visual supports\, gestures\, AAC tools\, and multimodal communication strategies to increase student access and engagement. Participants will leave with adaptable ideas and ready-to-use approaches that promote inclusion\, communication\, and meaningful classroom participation for all learners.
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SUMMARY:Assisting Students with Phonemic Awareness: Fun with Alphabet Books\, Syllables & Oral Language Development
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, teaching assistants will use alphabet books to support beginning readers’ oral language development and to help build associations between sounds and letters\, use names to clap syllables\, match beginning sounds\, hear rhymes and segment words into sounds.
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SUMMARY:Sensory Play: Inclusivity & Individuality
DESCRIPTION:We will discuss how temperament may affect how a child engages in sensory play. We will learn ways we can adapt as educators and adjust the same sensory activity for children with various temperaments.
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SUMMARY:The Power of Movement
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Exercise: The Educational Power of Movement is designed specifically for teacher aides and teaching assistants who support students throughout the school day. This interactive workshop explores how movement can be used as a powerful educational tool to improve student focus\, behavior\, emotional regulation\, participation\, and overall classroom engagement. Participants will learn how light physical activity and movement-based strategies can support diverse learners\, create inclusive environments\, and help students transition more successfully between academic tasks. Practical\, easy-to-implement movement activities and wellness strategies will be shared to help support both student learning and classroom success. Attendees will leave with simple tools they can immediately apply to enhance student readiness\, confidence\, and positive behavior across school settings.
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SUMMARY:Yes\, And!...: Using Improv Theater to Build Joy and Belonging in the Classroom: Practical Improv Techniques That Deepen Student Relationships and Energize Learning
DESCRIPTION:What if the most powerful tools for building classroom community came wrapped in laughter — and required absolutely no acting experience whatsoever? This hands-on workshop introduces TAs to foundational improv techniques that spark joy\, deepen student connection\, and create the kind of psychologically safe environment where every learner feels seen and valued. Rooted in "Yes\, and..." thinking\, these energizing\, low-stakes exercises teach two of the most important lessons a student can learn: that mistakes are not just okay — they are the doorway to growth — and that making your partner look good is the heart of genuine collaboration. Both are powerful expressions of the character strengths we explored in workshop two. Many of the activities are partner games\, making them a natural fit for the one-on-one work TAs do every day. Leave with a ready-to-use toolkit that builds authentic rapport\, belonging\, and joy — starting the very next day. This is the third in a series of three workshops with Howard Moody that build on each other and also stand alone.\n
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