Bring Dr. Emily to Your School
Dr. Emily provides in-person & virtual professional development for preK-8th grade educators
See what’s it’s all about in the video!
If you’re a school administrator who loves watching students thrive, but your teachers need more guidance to meet the needs of such a diverse group of learners, I’m here for you.
My professional development trainings help you create a school culture where your entire staff feels confident in supporting the neurodiverse learning needs and mental wellness of all students.
I believe that every classroom is already a neurodiverse classroom.
Imagine if:
Your staff felt more competent in the emotional needs of students so they could identify and support a concern before it turns into a behavior
Your staff understood the complex learning needs of all students and could help them access the curriculum in neuro-affirming ways
Your staff felt more confident in recognizing and responding to their own stress so that they could model emotional regulation for their students
Your staff could figure out why a student struggles with transitions or engages in power struggles and prevent these stressful moments from happening
Your staff knew how to establish trust and foster belonging in students so that they could take ownership of their learning
Your staff felt confident in collaborating with parents to better understand student needs to help all learners reach their goals
Every classroom in your school became the safest place for students to ask for help, take risks, and thrive in their learning journey
What Educators Are Saying about Dr. Emily’s Trainings
Schools That Have Learned with Dr. Emily
Step 1: Choose Your Timeframe
For Schools (< 100 educators)
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1-hr PD $750
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2-hr PD: $1500
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3-hr PD: $2,500
For Districts (> 100 educators)
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1-hr PD: $1,500
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2-hr PD: $3,000
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3-hr PD: $5,000
Step 2: Choose Your Topic(s)
(each topic is one hour including time for Q&A)
UNDERSTANDING NEURODIVERGENCE
Gain an understanding of how a child’s cognitive, memory, and language skills as well as their sensorimotor development impact their classroom behavior, executive functioning, and academic achievement.
CREATING AN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM
Learn all my favorite strategies for building a neurodiverse classroom community including helping student understand each other’s differences, student jobs, teaching leadership through strengths, how to use a safe place, and the best way to track behavior goals.
BUILDING TRUST WITH PARENTS & STUDENTS
Learn how to establish and maintain trust with students and effectively collaborate with their parents. I will walk you through tricky (but common) scenarios, such as school or work refusal or accusations from parents, and give you examples of what to say and how to respond.
EDUCATOR
MENTAL WELLNESS
Become more aware of your own body’s stress response as an educator, identify your triggers in the classroom, and learn how to strengthen your own resilience in order to ready yourself for co-regulation with your students.
HOW ANXIETY
IMPACTS LEARNING
Learn how to spot, prevent, and respond to student anxiety, sadness, and anger, identify what trauma can look like, and help students emotionally regulate in order to ready their body and brain for new learning.
PREVENTING & RESPONDING TO BEHAVIOR
Learn what to say and what to do when behavior happens to reduce student’s stress and increase engagement, provide accommodations to help students access the standardized curriculum, and strike a balance between providing support and fostering independence as students grow.
Step 3: Send my team an email
Submit the following info and Dr. Emily’s team will reply with her availability to speak at your school!
Please note that Dr. Emily is only traveling to present for school districts and not individual schools at this time. If you are an individual school, please inquire below about in-person (NC only) and virtual (out of state) options.
FAQs
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Yes! Dr. Emily is currently available for for virtual trainings all over the world. There are some limitations for live trainings due to time zones. Dr. Emily presents live in ET (New York).
Currently, virtual trainings are limited to two hours. 3-hr trainings are split into two 1.5 hr trainings on two different days. 3-hr trainings are available for in-person only.
Some schools and districts choose to invest in Dr. Emily’s full training on-demand (6 hrs) which can be purchased in bulk here.
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Approval of professional development for teachers varies by school and district. Dr. Emily provides signed certificates to those in attendance if needed to verify completion of attendance at a training.
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I recognize that funding in education is a tricky endeavor. Sometimes school administrators budget for my trainings and sometimes parent groups fund my trainings on behalf of teachers.
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Yes! The ideas Dr. Emily presents can be applied across the developmental range of student needs.
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No. In order to protect the privacy of school staff, students and family situations potentially discussed during the Q&A portion of training, virtual events are not recorded. Slides are made available to school teams to review for the remainder of the present school year for teachers to reference.
Meet Dr. Emily
I’m Dr. Emily, child psychologist and former school psychologist, and I’m here to help you!
As a girl growing up in North Carolina, I always wanted to be a teacher. I really loved school. School supplies gave me a thrill and as long as I had an organized pencil box and my Trapper Keeper was in order, life was good. I loved school so much that after college I immediately entered graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in School Psychology. At some point along the way, my passions evolved from teaching all students to helping those who struggle to learn within our traditional education system, especially when it comes to figuring out where behavior comes from and how it interferes with learning.
Over the last 20 years, I have seen student learning patterns become even more diverse in addition to an added awareness of the trauma kids’ experience and their mental health needs. Standardized education just does not fit the unique learning patterns of all students. Yet, you are asked to educate everyone without the necessary training in child developmental and mental health.
We all agree that there are systemic barriers we cannot change overnight. What we can do is better understand the needs of neurodiverse learners and the relationships we create with them every day to help them access their education.
We can create change from the bottom-up as we understand, nurture, and celebrate all learners, not just the ones who fit the mold.
Together, we are going to merge my knowledge of child psychology with your knowledge of education so that you can help spark learning for every student.
Your school is filled with passionate educators who are committed to their students…
…it’s just time for them to have all the information needed to connect with students in order to build a classroom community where students feel safe, nurtured, and celebrated.
When I work with educators, we collaboratively merge my knowledge of child psychology, neurodivergence, and mental health with the challenges your school staff faces every day in order to provide solutions they can implement tomorrow.
When educators gain a better understanding of the mental health and neurodiverse learning needs of students, they will feel more confident in supporting all students in their classroom.
Imagine watching students feel safe enough to take risks, advocate for what they need, and take ownership of their education.
