The Inspired Advisory Leader: Experiential Approaches to Engage Build Community and Create Lasting Meaningful Lessons

Join this interactive session and fill your facilitation toolbox with dynamic brain-based techniques to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons. Empower students o take ownership of learning, practice social-emotional skills, and build a positive, connected, inclusive, and supportive  advisory community.

Harness the power of experiential learning and active reflection to develop and facilitate meaningful advisory lessons while cultivating collaboration, student voice, problem-solving, self and social awareness, and communication. Facilitate meaningful reflection to increase relevancy and understanding. Leave with practical engagement strategies to get learners moving, talking, and reflecting. Take away creative inspiration and new perspectives on your role as an educator and advisory leader.

We will explore:

• Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage learners physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually
• Methods to design, sequence, scaffold, and adapt activities to enhance learning outcomes and take advantage of "teachable moments"
• Interactive activities to build rapport and community and promoting social and emotional learning, along with the classroom structures to make them a success
• Ways to promote involvement, buy-in, voice, choice, engagement, and ownership of learning 
• Methods for creating a positive, responsive, and supportive environment for learning
  
• Engaging reflection tools and techniques to help learners find meaning, increase depth of understanding, and application to future learning 
• Novel and dynamic techniques to teach, review, and apply content in meaningful, relevant ways
• Compelling research from the field of educational neuroscience that supports and informs experiential approaches to teaching, community building, and social-emotional learning
• Ways to cultivate social and emotional skills such as communication, social problem-solving, relationship skills, collaboration, self-regulation, decision-making, self-awareness, emotional expression, creativity, and reflection 
• The role of the educator as guide, and the importance of flexibility, attitude, adaptation, and awareness of the group and individual needs and differences