Communicating Through Conflict by Navigating Tricky Conversations
Keep your cool when the heat is on! So much of success as educational leaders depends on the strength of our communication with other adults. We will increase our skill set navigating the difficult conversations that are guaranteed to come our way. Together, we will explore practical strategies to ensure you remain calm when things get heated, and help others catch that calm from you as you work towards resolution. We will apply communication strategies to de-escalate and diffuse potentially explosive situations, as well as discuss ways to avoid escalation in the first place. Additionally, we share a number of practical and immediately applicable strategies to build and repair connection in these increasingly divisive times. Learn strategies and tools today that you can use tomorrow!
Harnessing the Power of Connection
Everyone knows why building connections with our students is so important, but couldn’t we all benefit from the playbook on how to do it? Erika Bare and Tiffany Burns provide this with practical and immediately applicable strategies to reinvigorate and improve systems by harnessing the power of connection. With a fast-paced, fun and humorous approach, this workshop or keynote is full of engaging content, model demonstrations, and back-pocket strategies you will be inspired to put into practice and share with the other educators in your building. Erika and Tiffany believe that at the very heart of education is connection. They are passionate about sharing the tools you need to build a culture of connection in your school where students and educators thrive.
Let Them Catch Your Calm
Create a campus where students thrive! We provide practical and immediately applicable strategies to reinvigorate and improve systems, allowing educators to navigate behavioral conversations with both increased confidence and effectiveness. Together, we will do a deep dive into the danger of power struggles, and provide you with practical tools for how to avoid them without losing your cool. This presentation is fast-paced, fun, and full of engaging content, model demonstrations, and active participation to immediately apply the skills being taught. Infused with a good dose of humor, we cover the foundations of Connected Relationships for Learning and go into detail about how this behavioral approach overlays and improves your current discipline system. Educators will leave with sentence stems, templates, and easy-to-implement strategies to transform student behavior and school culture through the art of connecting through conversation.