Presentations
Integrated Guidance: This presentation looks at the various ways in which a school counselor in ES, MS or HS can collaboratively work with teachers and gain access to classroom time in a win-win situation.
Stress: Understand the causes of stress, the good and the bad, and how that affects student educational and social well-being. Teachers and parents will leave with practical tools to help our teens manage the stress they encounter.
Stress Buster: An interactive workshop designed for teachers to give practical strategies in managing stress and adding balance to their day with 10 very easy simple strategies.
Online Profiles: This presentation is designed for Middle School students and can be adapted for parents and teachers. Using our various social networks as a launching off point, this talk centers NOT on the “bad” of being online, but how to network well and safely.
Communicating with your Teen: Based on the book, Yes, Your Teen is Crazy, this presentation aims to give 10 practical communication strategies to help parents navigate the teen years.
Tech Teens: Have teens really changed with the use of technology? Answering this question and gaining a better understanding of the draw the internet holds, participants will leave this presentation empowered, not intimidated, by the tech world our students inhabit.
“Melanie has the rare ability to take current, complex, and volatile issues and explain them in ways that demystify and defuse, empowering her audience to replace debilitating anxiety with positive action.” ~ David Larson, gr 8 teacher
Parenting Landmines: Designed for parents, this workshop engages participants in conversations about 5 parenting landmines we can step on and how to disarm them.
Child Abuse (Teacher Training): Helping our teachers understand our child Abuse policy, what abuse is, and how to respond when concerned of abuse.
Cross Cultures: In our diverse schools we often have many students living within multiple cultures. This presentation helps identify what those cultures are and how this reality impacts our students. (For parents or teachers)
Gaming: forum on Gaming. Is gaming good or bad? This Forum looks at the world of gaming from several perspectives and gives parents an outlet to explore and better understand some of those perspectives.
Transition: Welcome to the community:
Transition: Relocation and Repatriation, How to Say Goodbye
Settling In: A four session parenting class on settling in to a new community and how to plant roots.
Grade Level Transition Parent Nights: Whether it is 4th to 5th grade– Entering Middle School, 6th to 7th grade– Introduction to the Laptop, or 8th to 9th–High School 101, grade level transitions are tough. Empower and educating parents on what they can expect and how they can be involved helps students during these difficult times.