Online Professional Development

Communication and Connection for Safer Schools (C2S2) is excited to offer online, summer PD sessions.  You may register for individual or multiple sessions.  Once you are registered, you will receive a link to join the PD session.  You will receive 2 contact hours for each session you attend.  

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De-escalation Techniques for the Classroom

With Alicia Mrachko, Eric Anderson and Dana Patenaude

June 9, 2026 at 9 am - 11 am

This professional development equips teachers with practical de-escalation strategies to calmly and effectively manage challenging behaviors in the classroom, helping to preserve safety, build trust, and maintain a positive learning environment.

Safe to Learn: Building Positive School Culture

with Amerah Archer

June 12, 2026 at 9 am - 11 am

This professional development session introduces a relationship-centered approach to building positive school culture and responding to student behavior. Instead of relying on punitive discipline, participants will explore strategies that focus on understanding trauma, healing harm, strengthening accountability, and maintaining student connection to learning. The session also highlights how positive school culture can reduce discipline disparities and support more equitable, inclusive environments where students feel safe and supported.

Nervous System Dysregulation and Its Effect on Learning and Behavior

With Jennifer Robertson

June 16, 2026 at 9 am - 11 am

This professional development explores how nervous system dysregulation can cause students to shift into survival modes that make traditional learning biologically impossible. Participants will learn to recognize these physiological triggers and implement strategies rooted in safety and connection to help students return to a state of readiness and engagement.