While the What Works Conference may be over, you can view any of the workshops, panel conversations and presentation at anytime. Click here to view the entire conference.
Go to the What Works Conference web site if you want to find out what you can do right now to help your students do a better job both academically and socially in the classroom. Go to the What Works Conference web site if you want to provide specific guidance to parents on how they can help their children become more responsible and competent both at home and school.
While there are numerous workshops, panels, and presentations on positive approaches for school change, one that you won’t want to miss is the workshop on increasing student resilience. Presenter Sara Truebridge, a Research Associate at WestEd, and major supporter of teacher driven change, provides a step-by-step approach for increasing resilience and enabling students to have the necessary confidence and self-reliance to overcome challenges that they may meet in and out of the classroom. Click here for a preview. The information provided by Sara, while focusing on early childhood education, can be applied to every K – 12 classroom and makes a major contribution to creating a culture of success for all students. Click here to view this very important workshop.
