NH NEA FALL 2022 CONFERENCE

Building Empathy and Courage

Moving Through Burnout

Shared 90 min of  Professional Development as an introduction to the Ingredients of Being Human.

Co-facilitated with Karen Pambiachi, ACC the program You Too, Feelings of Burnout is everywhere.  

LACONIA & HILLSBOROUGH DEERING PARA EDUCATORS TRAINING

Confidence and Teamwork Leadership

Paraeducators are often working with a student population that comes with labels, even our paras feel like they are labeled by other members of their community.  These labels prevent the community from feeling like they are on the same page and working toward the same goals. Our goal was to talk about labels in a safe place, to challenge our own labels, which can be good and bad, and to build empathy and understanding of how labels impact everyone involved.

NEW ENGLAND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE

November 2021

Two former students, Marisa Dobbins and Avery Forrestall joined me for the NEFDC conference.  We were able to talk about student voices and the importance of giving students opportunities.  While the conference was directed toward college faculty, the material we presented was appropriate for all educators.  Through this conference, I learned that several colleges are implementing an approach that uses students as consultants.  I am eager to embed this into my own practices while creating opportunities to share it with other educational institutions that I am asked to work with on developing student leadership.