Leadership EDIT 2025

Our schools, districts, and organizations are dynamic, living systems in which our experiences, thoughts, identities, behaviors, and feelings are constantly intersecting, colliding, avoiding, and yes, synching together as we navigate our collective nervous systems. This session dives into the role of leaders as we seek to create and honor the supportive and equitable school environments that allow all stakeholders to thrive. Through the lens of applied educational neuroscience, participants in this session will gain awareness of their own nervous system states and learn strategies to hold space and energy for the most vulnerable among us. When we shift paradigms and adopt compassionate, inclusive, and restorative practices, we begin to transcend the devastating effects of toxic stress, trauma, pain and fear that are so prevalent in today’s learning systems.