TEAM-BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS
Make It Your Mission
TEAM-BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS
Make It Your Mission
Make It Your Mission is a group professional development training for educators that prioritizes and improves boundaried teacher-student relationships at your school. At OTA, we are on a mission to ensure that every young person has at least one trusted adult.
This training addresses: why this mission is so important right now, what a trusted adult is and isn’t, and how to make strengthening connections with youth your mission personally and organizationally every day, all year long.
The Make It Your Mission program includes:
✔️ 4-module video program designed for group viewing
✔️ Discussion questions and reflection guide
How to Implement
Watch with your team as one 60-minute video session or as four 15-minute video sessions. Lead a group discussion using the thought-provoking reflection guide or encourage community members to reflect individually or with a partner. Set goals for school-connectedness that you and your team can check back in on all year long.
INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS
One Trusted Adult Foundations
One Trusted Adult: Foundations for Educators is an online on-demand, 4-hour course, including exercises, assessments, and a downloadable workbook. An individual certificate of attendance is issued upon completion.
✔️ Review evidence and recognize the importance of every child being able to name at least one trusted adult at school.
✔️ Become a trusted adult who is accessible, boundaried, and caring.
✔️ Set up spaces to meet the BASICS (universal youth needs) using tools and techniques such as strategic questions and Magnets & Mirrors worksheets.
✔️ Establish healthy and appropriate youth-adult relationships and avoid boundary blur and professional burnout.
✔️ Encourage teamwork and build a network of many trusted adults. Implement communication techniques and strategies to improve relationships with other trusted adults.
✔️Apply Caring Modes and comfort Zones frameworks for effective mentorship.
Individual Course ($129)
ONE TRUSTED ADULT
Book + Reader's Guide
Read the book: One Trusted Adult: How to Build Strong Connections and Healthy Boundaries with Young People. Use the Reader’s Guide to facilitate a discussion with your team.
One Trusted Adult $19.95 plus shipping (Please contact us for bulk discounts and orders).
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