At-Risk and Hard-to-Reach Students
This insightful on-site training workshop provides educators with a better understanding of why we are dealing with so many students who are at-risk — exploring the root causes as well as additional trauma faced during the Covid-19 quarantine. Author and motivational speaker Dr. Tommie Mabry shares specific strategies to engage ALL learners and discusses why effective relationship-building with children is fundamental for student and school success.
Overview
Understanding the reason we teach, with special emphasis on the student, is the central theme of this training. Dr. Mabry offers participants a refreshing look into students from his own experience as an at-risk student as well as an educator.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover how to implement teaching strategies to capture and inspire ALL learners
- Learn to affirm and validate teaching effectiveness in the classroom
- Explore a framework for reshaping school culture, affording teachers and students an opportunity to become part of the solution collaboratively
- Answer the key question: Now that we understand today’s students, what do we teach them?
FAQ
– Classroom Teachers
– Principals
– Special Education Personnel
– School Counselors & Psychologists
– Other Administrators
– Social Workers (all levels)
– Law Enforcement/SRO
– Counselors & Therapists in Agencies & Private Practice
– Media Specialists
Certificates of Completion for this seminar, which indicate 6 contact hours of Continuing Education, will be available at the end of the seminar upon completion of a course evaluation. In many cases, depending on your Profession and Jurisdiction, this Certificate of Completion is sufficient for tracking your Continuing Education and Professional Development efforts. We suggest that you contact your local Board or Governing Agency to see exactly what steps are necessary for approval in your particular discipline. Please note that Developmental Resources is also an approved Provider for the following National and Regional Accrediting Agencies.
Developmental Resources has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5602. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
AccuTrain Corporation, #1053, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. AccuTrain maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: (8/13/2019 – 8/13/2022). Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive 6 Clinical Social Work continuing education clock hours.
At-Risk and Hard-to-Reach Students Presenter
Dr. Tommie Mabry
*In case of an emergency, another qualified presenter will substitute
Tommie Mabry grew up in poverty in Jackson, Mississippi. With no one to serve as a model for mainstream success, Tommie turned to life in the streets. He was expelled from numerous schools and by age 11, he was serving time for burglary. Things started to change for Tommie when he joined an AAU basketball team that traveled around world. Although he was shot in the foot during his senior year, he received a full basketball scholarship to Missouri State University. After completing his undergraduate studies at Tougaloo College, he taught school in the same district where he had been expelled numerous times. Subsequently he has served as Director of Enrollment at Tougaloo College before founding the company that bears his name. He recently earned his Ph.D. from Jackson State University and has published two books, A Dark Journey to a Light Future and If Tommie Can Do It, We Can Do It.