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Starting the New Year Connected
January 11, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am PST
Presented by: Alexa Achille
Explore how we can identify students who may feel unseen, disconnected, or left out of their school community. Through collaborative discussion and idea-sharing, we’ll crowdsource strategies that foster authentic connection and belonging—ensuring that every student is known by name, face, and story.
Together, we’ll reflect on how to build inclusive systems of support—especially in larger school settings—so that no student falls through the cracks. This conversation will center equity and representation, with a focus on designing school experiences that resonate with all students, not just a few.
Join us for community and conversation as we collectively reimagine what it means to belong in school.
In this workshop we will explore:
- How to foster meaningful connection in school communities through simple, humanizing practices that center belonging and visibility.
- The role of trust and high expectations in shaping how students and adults show up, engage, and lead within your school.
By participating, you will be ready to:
- Facilitate inclusive conversations that reveal and celebrate the full humanity of students, educators, and community members.
- Create opportunities—big and small—for individuals to feel seen, valued, and connected in your school, especially those who are often overlooked.
- Recognize and elevate people-positive leaders in your community, and design school cultures that treat everyone as capable, trusted, and essential.
Resources
In Emergent Strategy, adrienne marree brown guides readers through recipes for shaping change, ourselves, and worlds. Inspired by the work of Octavia E. Butler, this nonfiction book imaginatively brings together science and sci-fi to explore our relationships with change. With loving attention to the body, spirit, and earth, Emergent Strategy is a lighthouse for change and the possible futures change offers.
Six factors to consider in designing lessons to help increase student engagement behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively.
Engaged students learn best—and that engagement comes from lessons that feel relevant, interesting, and lead to success. Principals play a key role in helping teachers create these conditions, both for students and for themselves. When teachers are engaged in meaningful, collaborative professional learning, they’re more likely to foster joyful, effective classrooms where all students thrive.
About the Presenters
Alexa serves the Inflexion team as a Project Manager. She has a decade of experience in the dynamic worlds of communication and education and she is on a mission to spark brilliance in professionals through her thoughtfully designed workshops. Before joining the Inflexion team, Alexa served as a high school Special Educator in the New York City Department of Education and OHDELA Ohio State’s virtual high school after earning her Master of Science in Education from Long Island University, Brooklyn. She is a multi-hyphenate professional who is a published poet and writer with features in i-D Magazine’s Up + Rising Issue and Gumbo Magazine.
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