Description of Training
10 Brain-Boosters™ Interventions for the 21^st Century Classroom
Are you frustrated by students who fidget, constantly need to be redirected and distract others? Do you have a handful of children who demand all your time? Ever wonder why certain students struggle with anxiety and anger?

Today’s educators must deal with situations and issues unimaginable even a few years ago. Studies indicate that up to 70% of students may be affected by one or more of the following: anxiety; distraction and difficulty attending; sensory integration; impulsivity; emotional and behavioral impacts; and bullying.

Celebrate!Calm Director of Education, Kirk Martin, will address these issues during our Professional Development day. Martin has trained over 75,000 parents and teachers and specializes in working with intense children, including those affected by Anxiety, Sensory issues, Aspergers, Autism, ODD, OCD and AD/HD.

We use what we call the Tuesday Morning Approach. Our interventions are all science-based, but our focus is on providing very specific, concrete, practical tools for educators. If we train your staff on a Monday, each teacher will be equipped with at least ten tools they can use when walking into the classroom on Tuesday morning.

Objectives

The Brain-Boosters™ Workshops combine forty years of scientific research with cutting-edge insight into the human brain to provide practical, 21^st century tools for educators:

•    Practical ways to improve attention and retention.
•    Behavior plans that build confidence and work long-term.
•    The correct way to calm an angry, anxious or violent child.
•    Transfer ownership of academic and behavioral success to students.

Training Topics

Brain Booster # 1: Every classroom needs a traffic cop to keep traffic moving. How to create order and structure in the classroom. Why traditions are more powerful than rules.

Brain Booster # 2: Calm the quiet stalker that destroys focus: anxiety. Why anxiety causes more distractions and behavior issues than any other factor.Five proven steps to identify, prevent and overcome anxiety.

Brain Booster # 3:Be Sensory Smart to improve behavior. Nearly 60% of students experience sensory processing issues, another silent destroyer of focus. Practical tools you can use throughout the day to eliminate sensory issues.

Brain Booster # 4:  Calm explosive students before they dominate your classroom. Ever notice how students who get angry have a difficult time finding the words to express their emotions? That's because the temporal lobe is responsible for temper control and language—talking to a child during this time can be disastrous. Three common actions adults take that unwittingly make tense situations worse. One proven step that calms every upset child every time.

Brain Booster # 5: Create behavior plans that build a child’s confidence and reduce negative behavior. The basal ganglia—responsible for impulse control, judgment and motivation—responds best to a strengths-based approach. The fatal flaw all behavior plans suffer from and why they never work for long. Why increasing consequences never motivates the student and leads to frustration. How to redirect seamlessly without giving attention to the disruptive student. What you should be sending home instead of a daily behavioral chart. What happens when we show children what TO DO instead of what not to do.

Brain Booster # 6:  Exercise and nutritious food are the high-octane fuels our students’ brains need. Specific ways for teachers to incorporate exercise into lesson plans to reduce interruptions and improve productivity.

Brain Booster # 7:  Improve concentration by giving students textured objects. The center for language, reading and emotions in the brain also controls rhythm. Learn how teachers use music, swings and movement. What should you do when students refuse to give eye contact or stare out the window?

Brain Booster # 8:  Use multi-sensory stimulation to improve attention and retention. Movement anchors new information and experiences into neural networks.
Application: 20 specific examples from real classrooms situations. And some ways to rethink circle time.

Brain Booster # 9:  Celebrate diversity of learning styles and gifts. Teach students to control their own actions, attitudes and emotions. How to get students using their respective strengths. Learn the key to prevent bullying.

Brain Booster # 10:  Ignite a student’s internal motivation. Why most of our well-meaning efforts at motivating students cause more anxiety. How teachers from Long Island to St. Louis to Long Beach motivate students.

Agenda
We can provide a customized range of presentations, from all-day and half-day in-service training to after school presentations lasting 90 minutes to two hours.

 
About Celebrate!Calm

Celebrate!Calm is a world-renowned educational organization that provides science-based training for educators, parents and children.While the research-based interventions help all children learn more effectively, the organization specializes in working with children affected by Aspergers, Autism, Sensory Integration, Opposition Defiant Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, OCD, ADD, ADHD and other learning or emotional difficulties.

With clients in all fifty states and eighteen countries including Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, Israel, Hungary, Spain, Norway and South Africa, Celebrate!Calm has earned a reputation for transformation of classrooms and homes.

The organization’s Brain Boosters™ curriculum is being used in over 4,000 schools across North America, including some of the largest school districts such as Fairfax County, VA.

 
Executive Director and Behavioral Consultant Kirk Martin has worked personally with over 1,500 children with special needs through the organization’s innovative Camps. He is highly regarded for his partnerships with educators, forged during time spent in over 600 classrooms. Additionally, Martin has helped equip over 75,000 teachers, parents and students with unrivaled insight and interventions through Brain Boosters™ and Calm Kids™ Workshops.

Kirk Martin is the author of numerous articles and the highly-regarded non-fiction title, "Celebrate! ADHD" (Cantwell-Hamilton Press), which has provided hope to thousands of families. Kirk is also the author of three novels. His award-winning newsletter is read weekly by 16,000 educators, parents and mental health professionals.

Celebrate!Calm has forged strategic partnerships with leading education researchers. We use the latest findings from brain research by Dr. Daniel Amen; partner with Dr. Howard Glasser, founder of The Nurtured Heart Approach, which has helped transform schools across the country; and continually seek advice from the  Trusted 100, a group of one hundred teachers, Principals and Headmasters, special education experts and counselors in North America.

The methodological underpinning of the Brain Booster™ Curriculum is a cutting-edge combination of advanced scientific and empirical research. We arduously comb research journals for the latest scientific research revealing new understandings of the intricate and complex workings of the human brain.

But we don’t stop there, because this research doesn’t tell the whole story. We combine this scientific understanding with empirical insight based on interaction with thousands of children and teachers. We continually apply the latest research to several layers of teaching modules within the fluid environment of actual classrooms, playgrounds, homes and camps.

This is not just theory—we are educators ourselves. We spend over 200 days each year actively educating children from across the nation and world through our award-winning camps. The result is transformation and lasting change.