The Resilient Educator®
Skills to Succeed and Flourish in Today's Schools

The Resilient Educator is a powerful, highly relevant training program that helps educators boost performance, improve school relationships, and strengthen resiliency. Acclaimed by educators for its new ideas and solid foundation in neuroscience, the program's proven techniques are easy to learn and help rekindle educators' motivation and energy. Drawing on the Institute of HeartMath's fifteen years of scientific research, this training engages educators through its timely, practical, research-based approach.

Have you noticed that today it takes more energy and stamina to teach successfully? Whether it's mastering new subject matter, addressing diverse student needs, implementing assessments, learning new technology, maintaining classroom order, managing time, or making sure all students learn, the demands on teachers and administrators are increasing in number and intensity.

The toll from these expectations can lead to costly early retirement, lower morale, and diminished job satisfaction. To stay the course in today's educational climate, educators need new skills and strategies to be effective and resilient.

Teacher Resilience and Test Scores

New research has found a strong correlation between teacher stress and student test anxiety, and between student test anxiety and test scores.

Participants Learn To:

► Think more clearly and make smarter decisions, especially under pressure.
► Improve communication with staff, students and parents.
► Transform the physiological response to stress.
► Increase vitality and well being.
► Create a stronger school culture and esprit de corps.
► Improve the overall classroom climate and learning environment.

Sustainable, Scalable and Quantifiable:

Proven Results

Three months after school administrators and K-12 teachers from a Kentucky school district received training, symptoms of stress had dropped dramatically.

Prior to the training, 34% of the participants said that they felt exhausted. Three months after the training that number had dropped to only 11%. Those who said they felt like quitting their job dropped from 21% to 14% during the same three-month period. Similar before and after assessments are available for every participant in your school.

Program Content:

► What is resiliency? How to build and sustain it
► What is stress? Stressors that educators face
► The role of emotions in performance and health
► Coherence: Achieving greater resilience and excellence
► Neutralizing stress/daily applications
► Demonstration of the emWave® PC Stress Relief System technology
► How emotions drive brain activity into chaos or coherence
► The Freeze-Frame® technique: a problem solving tool
► Effective communication and productive working relationships
► Establishing a new baseline of health and well-being
► Applications in daily life

Flexible Training Modes:

The Resilient Educator is available in 2, 4, and 6 hour presentations or during one-to-two hour sessions spread out over several weeks.

Educators attending this training will be able to pass on this information to their students and parents as well, and most importantly, they will be able to use this information for themselves.

Counseling at a Community College, I have learned that the greatest stressor for students is test or performance anxiety. Would you like to learn more about reducing these common fears for your students? If so, give me a call and schedule an appointment.

Also, see the link below for additional information.

How to assist students with test anxiety using HeartMath tools and programs

Information about HeartMath's mission and applications regarding stress reduction, test anxiety, and other performance issues

The Resilient Educator® Training

San Antonio Area Educator Training

To learn more about this training, to find out how to obtain this training for yourself or your educational organization, to receive a brief overview about the program...

Contact me either via phone or email:

(210) 342-3816

heartsourcesonja@aol.com

The Resilient Educator® Class
Boulder Creek, CA, July 2007

What Educators are Saying:

"Not only did the seminar meet our expectations, it far exceeded them. The energy management and stress level of our staff have improved noticeably."
- Jeff Tobey, Administrator, Sundance School, New Jersey


"The program is excellent and your staff is outstanding, caring, empathetic, warm, creative, and flexible. We are already planning to have you back."
- Abel Valdez, Principal, Salinas Union School District


"Excellent. Everybody should take this workshop to set his or her own life into proper perspective. It gave me tools to deal with unreasonable demands from professional life on a daily basis."
- Lenore Blank, Resource Teacher, San Francisco Unified School District


"Empowering. Relevant to the needs of adults and youth alike. Insight and skills to be more in charge and at peace in the middle of chaos, change, and the transitions our educational system is experiencing."
- Katie Holmes, School Counselor, Greeley, Colorado


"This is a refreshing workshop at a time when teachers are overwhelmed with inservices that are often dull, trivial, repetitive, and an insult to experienced teachers."
- Pat McGran, Teacher, Jefferson School District, Daly City, California.

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