Are you in a position of school leadership?

Naturally integrate this culturally sensitive SEL with training & materials to enable school therapists & staff to provide expert support for every child — in both the therapy room and classroom.

Students who struggle with ineffective social and emotional skills?

 

 

Teachers who grapple with challenging student behaviors?

Therapists who feel overrun by crisis management?

Staff members who suffer from burnout, low morale, and undefined expectations?

 

 

Empower your staff with better tools.

Teach them to incorporate SEL RTI constructs into every interaction.

Our School Staff Training package includes

 Therapist Leadership Trainings

  • Monthly Staff training sessions
  • Actionable visual exercises
  • Constructs that are Easy to Integrate

With powerful SEL skills, your staff will be empowered and equipped to support their students with a team-oriented approach.

Watch it change their lives and yours.

Hi, I’m Miriam Campbell, MA SLP-CCC, MSW.

I’ve spent 14+ years as a teacher, speech therapist, and social worker.

With each hat I wore, the same issue came up again and again.

The most essential skills – effective core skills to support the kids in real life – were falling through the cracks.
The kids were suffering.
Our kids need to be properly trained in Social Emotional Learning. They need these skills for their proper development as kids, and then as adults.

Therapists are trained in SEL delivery, but they don’t have enough time with each child to make a real difference.

Teachers have ample time to influence students, but most of them aren’t trained to deliver SEL. If they are, they rarely have TIME or energy to do so.

Wasn’t there a better way?

Honestly, there wasn’t.

Every lead led to a dead end.

I found SEL programs.

I found therapeutic techniques.

But no approach supported students from therapy sessions to classroom lessons to real life.

So I created that elusive better way.
I began to develop a curriculum that was easily integratable.

I distilled the work I was doing in my 1:1 sessions with kids into a structured method that both teachers and therapists could incorporate into their every interaction with the students. My goal was to create a consistent model that would prove efficient and effective in both therapy sessions and the classroom.

Skills for Connection is the culmination of those years of work.
I train therapists to do two things:
properly teach SEL during their sessions
train teachers to easily incorporate these constructs into what they’re already teaching.
By default, the teachers personally develop the SEL skills they’re teaching, enabling them to deal with challenging classroom behavior.

It’s a win-win-win.

Learn how to Integrate SEL naturally Schoolwide

Therapist training

6 Training Sessions

WhatsApp Group Support

Schoolwide Access to Materials

 

professional development teacher training

Pick a topic to train your teachers how to EASILY integrate Social-Emotional development into their existing curriculums.

consultation

Get 1:1 Consulting

parent cohorts

Parents learn the same methods to support their kid’s Social Emotional Development as therapists and teachers.

6 Sessions

WhatsApp Support

 

The only training of its kind

 

 

Improve Parent-School Collaboration

 

We’re all on the same page when it comes to our kids’ benefit, right?

 

Unfortunately, not always.

 

We train therapists to give over the SEL RTI methodology to parents and teachers, resulting in a results-driven, cohesive team.

 

Plus, everyone involved gains from these skills.

Integrate with Existing Classroom Curricula

 

Schools have so much on their academic agenda.

 

Which teacher has extra time or emotional energy to teach an additional curriculum, even one as integral to a child’s development as SEL? They’re already expressing burnout.

 

Our trainings bridge the gap between the two priorities, with SEL constructs that fit seamlessly into traditional classroom curricula at every grade level.

Deliver with Confidence

 

Learn the proven methodology and gain from tried & true materials and full client support.

 

Our trainings have helped therapists at all stages of career —  both veterans and beginners.

 

We provide everything you need for successful SEL delivery – the trainings, the materials, and the support.

 

Other reasons school leaders love this SEL RTI Model

 

Fully Adaptable

Appropriate for every child in every community

Tangibly Concrete

Focuses on relevant examples & actionable constructs

Globally Accessible

100% virtual, with trainings that can be joined from anywhere

Educational Team-building

Sustainable school-wide team approach

Who We Serve

 

 

School Counselors Principals Occupational Therapists
Speech-Language Pathologists Social Workers SEL Coordinators
School Therapists Teachers Parents

It’s tried & true

 

“Even my lowest functioning student is able to grasp the concept.”

 

It’s a shame I didn’t see this a year ago. 

My students this past year faced numerous social-emotional challenges, and these tools would have helped them so much.

Now that I have the skills, I can use them with my upcoming class.

What I love most about the training is that even my lowest functioning student will be able to grasp the concepts!

 

— Zissi Ringel, {insert title}, {insert credentials}

“You don’t need a separate curriculum to teach these key skills.”

 

My job as a school therapist is to arm my students with communication skills, emotional awareness and regulation, and sensitivity training. When you try to teach these fundamentals as a separate curriculum, you’ve already lost – because who has time for “extracurricular activities”?

 

Miriam figured out what we’ve all been waiting for: how to seamlessly integrate these constructs into the existing classroom curriculum. With Skills for Connection, you don’t need a separate curriculum to teach these key skills to the kids.

— Ahuva Maimon, LCSW, CASAC

“The feedback from the teachers was amazing, they are all looking forward to implementing it.”

 

Hi!

I was present at the training, it was really really great. The feedback from the teachers was amazing, they are all looking forward to implementing it. Thank you for the worksheets, I will email it to the teachers iyh. We had 13 staff at the training, not just the three faces you saw 🙂 lol! 

Thank you, 

Ruchee, Principal, Tiferes Mordechai, Brooklyn, NY

“This program opened proper lines of communication everywhere.”

Hi Mrs. Campbell,

I wanted to thank you again for the workshop you gave to our staff. I think we took a lot from it, and we had a great full-staff discussion about “I see, I think, I feel, I choose” and the mindfulness exercise after your session. A lot of teachers had great ideas for how to implement the techniques in their classrooms. I wanted to check in with you to see if you received payment from the Greece central school district yet. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kol tuv.

Dov Chastain, Assistant Principal, Derech HaTorah, Rochester NY

“This program opened proper lines of communication everywhere.”

My teachers feel more comfortable admitting when they need help because the culture that the program sets is one of growth across all roles. 

-D New, Preschool Director

 

Choose your School Training Package

Scho

Starter Standard Schoolwide
  • 10 minute consultation

 

  • 6 Week Lead Therapist Training Cohort

 

  • WhatsApp Support Group for Duration of Cohort

 

  • Schoolwide Access Construct Worksheets*

 

  • 20 minute consultation

 

  • 6 Week Lead Therapist Training Cohort

 

  • WhatsApp Support Group for Duration of Cohort

 

  • Schoolwide Construct Worksheets* 

 

  • One 50-minute 1:1 Coaching Session 

 

  • Two 50-minute Staff Training Sessions for School Personnel* for up to 13 staff members

 

  • 20 minute consultation
  • 6 Week Lead Therapist Training Cohort

 

  • WhatsApp Support Group for 1 Year
  • Schoolwide Construct Worksheets 

 

  • Two 50-minute 1:1 Coaching Session 

 

  • Six 50-minute Staff Training Sessions for School Personnel* for up to 13 staff members
$650

$1,800

*add $100 for each additional staff members

$4,100

*add $100 for each additional staff members

 

Independent Services

Click to Schedule

 

How Do I Sign up and Schedule the Sessions for the School Package?

1. Click Register.

2. Fill the form out & select the School Package that works best for your school.

3. Submit Payment

4. You will receive links to schedule all the services in your package.

5. Schedule each Service to Reserve the time that works best for your school.

6. Receive your Zoom Link and relevant directions.

 

CORE CONSTRUCTS

 

SKILL DEVELOPMENT

Session 1
  1. I SEE. I THINK. I FEEL. I CHOOSE!
  • Self Awareness, 
  • Flexible Thinking, 
  • Prerequisite Skills for:
  • Body Language, 
  • Emotional ID, 
  • Perspective Taking,
  • Communication Skills
Session 2
  1. Body Language
  2. Emotional ID
  • Self Awareness, 
  • Communication Skills, 
  • Perspective Taking, 
  • Reading Others, 
  • Empathy
Session 3

Self & Other

  1. Gathering Information
  2. Perspective Taking
  • Reading Others, 
  • Perspective Taking, 
  • Communication Skills, 
  • Validation
  • Emotional Regulation, 
  • Respect, 
  • Consequence,
  • Self Awareness
Session 4

Problem Solving

  1. Sequencing
  2. Cause and Effect
  3. Brainstorming
  4. Problem Solving
  • Address Anxiety, 
  • Identify Locus of Control, Understand Environment, Process Trauma, 
  • Growth Mindset, 
  • Flexible Thinking, 
  • Consequences, 
  • Validation, 
  • Organization, 
  • Responsibility, 
  • Problem Solving
Session 5

Emotional Regulation

  1. Mindfulness
  2. Somatic Self Healing
  • Emotional Education, 
  • Increase Overall Safety, 
  • Trauma Informed, 
  • Mindfulness, 
  • ADHD Empowerment, 
  • Somatic Support
Session 6

Behavior Modification

  1. Social Stories (Drama)

 

Conversation Skills

  1. Main Idea Web
  2. Main Idea with WH
  3. Conversation Chain
  • Problem Solving,
  • Language Scripts,
  • Perspective Taking

 

  • Topic Maintenance
  • Paragraph Building
  • Association
  • Perspective Taking

 

For Social Skills Support:

 

Social Skills Support

  • For a Bubble Double Curriculum Outline, email thebubblespace@skillsforconnection.com

 Bubble Double: visualizing social skills for connection

Still wondering if this program is right for your school?

FAQs

  • Is this financially efficient?

Extremely, if your school is on a tight budget, one Staff leader can be trained in the Therapist Training and support the entire school with training and materials for a one time fee. If they need further support, they can receive consultation.

  • Can a school use other types of SEL effectively?

Other Social-Emotional programs may be helpful! There are many excellent books, blog posts, and trainings that are available. 

We created this training, to provide what we were not seeing in other programs. We wanted to support natural skill integration and support teachers without adding to their workload.

Everything you need, all in one place.

  • Are you CASEL certified?

No. 

By choosing not to go the CASEL certification route, we ensure that all curricula and materials remain culturally sensitive for students in every school, regardless of social and political beliefs. Parents who are SEL-wary are comfortable with the Skills for Connection approach.

  • Do you provide training for a Staff Leader to train the rest of the staff?

Yes!  6 Training Sessions plus Materials provide therapists/school leaders to train the rest of the staff members. He/She can also continue to receive consultations to address school-specific challenges and situations.

  • Do you provide Parent Training for our school Parent Body?

Yes!  Some schools sponsor Parent Training Events and other schools refer their Parents for the Parent Training: skillsforconnection.com/parents/

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