• #FULLYCHARGED Social ~ Emotional ~ Cognitive Science & Strategies to Skyrocket Success (EVEN DURING A PANDEMIC) Package: This 3-session training series and book study increases knowledge and efficacy to understand how stress and trauma, such as COVID, impacts young and mature brains and provides trauma impacted strategies to decrease stress and increase social, emotional, cognitive wellness and success in our students, parents, and staff. This series also provides a #FULLYCHARGED~140 Battery Charging Maslow & Bloom Strategies for Students, Parents, and Staff book for each staff member, packed with resources and support ideas to implement immediately. Julie personalizes each training session based on the needs of the client, and incorporates the book study into each of the 3 sessions. Training topics might include: young brain development, ACEs, trauma impacted strategies, increasing positive school/community culture during a pandemic, increasing equity and equality, mental health disorders and strategies to support mental health, remote learning strategies, social emotional learning, parenting tips and resources during a pandemic and MUCH more!

• #FULLYCHARGED Neuroscience~Science & Strategies that Skyrocket Success: Boost student achievement utilizing the latest Neuroscience & Maslow & Bloom Best Practices to decrease stress and skyrocket social-emotional-cognitive success!

• Game Changers! Pre-During-Post Content Area Literacy & Critical Thinking Strategies: This training develops the prior knowledge, prediction, inference, analysis, visualization, engagement, monitoring and summary skills students need for academic success. Participants leave with a tool-kit of differentiated strategies that can be implemented immediately.

• #FULLYCHARGED DISTANCE LEARNING ~ The SUPER Seven~Strategies that Engage & Stimulate Critical Thinking & Comprehension: The title says it all; this interactive session equips educators with 7 differentiated content area literacy strategies that increase student engagement and comprehension.

• PDP Cornell Notes: Dr. Robert Marzano in Classroom Instruction that Works, identifies note-taking as one of the nine most effective strategies that boosts student comprehension; however, it is the one strategy that everyone assigns but few teach. Learn this powerful & systematic note-taking strategy that promotes deeper understanding, differentiation and retention of essential information across all content areas.

• Close Reading: What is it? How can I use it with both fiction and non-fiction? Can it be differentiated for primary and secondary? These questions and more are answered in this session; this strategy is fundamental to teaching comprehension and critical thinking through complex fiction and non-fiction text.

• FUN Formative & Summative Assessments: YES - assessments can be engaging & fun! Learn 9 powerful content area formative and summative assessments that increase student comprehension and retention and provide the important data educators can use to drive their instruction.

• Developing Fluency in Mixed-Ability Classes: Learn how to teach the three components of fluency (Rate-Accuracy-Prosody) and improve student comprehension and accountability for learning, even in the secondary grades.

• Content & Academic Vocabulary Acquisition: Acquire the essential methods needed to effectively introduce, prioritize, categorize and review content and academic vocabulary, so student mastery and understanding of content occurs daily.

• Structured Engagement & Discussion Strategies for Millennials: Engaging and effective techniques are shared to equip teachers with a repertoire of formal & informal discussion and comprehension monitoring strategies that promote critical thinking and improve students' communication and literacy skills.

• YES~Test-Taking Success! Students encounter hundreds of tests throughout their schooling career but often lack a repertoire of powerful test-taking strategies that enhance success. This session teaches the "what and why" of effective test-taking methods that teachers can share with their classes to boost testing confidence, competence and comprehension.

• Content Area & Technical Writing: This training provides instruction and modeling in how to teach a simplified writing process across all content areas. Areas of emphasis include: effective topic sentences, brainstorming, audience, chunk/scaffolded paragraph structures, MLA citation, peer-editing, feedback and revision. This interactive process develops the College & Career Readiness writing skills emphasized in the Common Core State Standards.

• #FULLYCHARGED & FIERCE: Julie shares the 3 neuroscientific principles and 15 strategies that decrease stress and skyrocket personal and professional success across all industries! Get ready to laugh, learn, and walk away equipped with strategies to implement immediately and take your success to the next level!

• #FULLYCHARGED Mental Health: Learn the 8 most commonly diagnosed mental health disorders, their 3 causes, and 8 powerful Maslow & Bloom strategies to turn struggles into successes!

• #FULLYCHARGED Neuroscience~What Educators & Coaches Should Know to Strengthen & Equip the Young Brain: This session equips those who work with youth, with the latest in neuroscience research and the implications for teaching and learning; attendees will leave with a toolkit of strategies to boost competence, confidence, critical thinking and success.

• #FULLYCHARGED S.E.E.D.S. ~ What does it take to wake up #FULLYCHARGED? Julie demystifies the science and provides you with the strategies so you can master the 5 most influential elements on your mental & physical wellness and cut the confusing and stressful crap out once and for all!

• #FULLYCHARGED On-Boarding~Research shows that effective and engaging new employee training and mentoring decreases stress and increases retention, efficiency, productivity, wellness, satisfaction, and critical thinking. Learn the research-based strategies to strengthen, serve, and develop the game changing and positive leaders your organization needs to thrive!

• Fostering a Fantastic Culture~8 Best Practices: Research suggests there are several characteristics that produce a positive and even pleasurable environment conducive to learning & success--what are they and how can they be implemented? Participants engage in analysis and discussion of Maslow & Bloom educational and corporate "Best Practices" and leave with ideas to implement immediately at their site.

• FULLYCHARGED Social Emotional Learning: Social Emotional Learning is THE Trauma-Impacted Strategy! Those who have been explicitly taught social emotional learning (SEL) strategies tend to show at least an 11% increase in academic success and increased ability to overcome trauma! Learn 25 engaging and effective Maslow & Bloom strategies to cultivate the 5 social emotional competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relational skills and rational decision-making.

• From Overwhelmed & Drained to Equipped & #FULLYCHARGED: Learn the neuroscience behind Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), healthy brain development, environmental factors that influence success, and how to successfully navigate anxiety, social media, and depression by implementing trauma impacted strategies to strengthen young and mature brains.

• Queen Bees, Geeks, & Wannabees: Social cliques are a common yet frustrating component to the social hierarchy on a school campus; learn the categories that students organize into and how to navigate and develop positive school culture in spite of student "social classes".

• #FULLYCHARGED Leadership! Develop the competence, confidence, critical thinking, and creative capacity to be an effective leader whether in the classroom, board room, on the court or field! Cognitive capacity is finite-master the skills that immediately increase your Maslow (emotional) and Bloom (cognitive) intelligences to skyrocket your system’s success!

• #FULLYCHARGED Youth Leadership: This fast-paced session focuses on how the brain has changed in the last 3 decades and powerful and engaging strategies to use to grow competence and confidence in both the Maslow and Bloom realms to prepare students for leadership and success.

• The Leader’s Brain: Are Leaders Born or Made? This popular session is packed with the latest research demonstrating how the brain of a leader differs from that of a follower, and specific characteristics and strategies utilized by the most innovative leaders of our time. It is true, we can cultivate effective leadership and increase our capacity for growth and efficiency by learning from the masters.

• Goodness Gracious, Great Brains on Fire! Cultivate the 4 Ps for Lifelong Learning, Happiness & Success: Our brain has extreme neuro-plasticity throughout life, if we know how to grow it effectively. Learn a tool-kit of strategies to increase cognitive capacity and contentment and GROW YOUR BRAIN!

• Digital Literacy, Citizenship, & Leadership: What are the components that comprise all of these 21st Century skills and how can educators best prepare students (and themselves) to successfully navigate social media (while protecting personal information and reputation)? These questions and much more are answered in this informative session.

• The Power of Professional Learning Communities: What are they and why are they so prevalent within successful educational institutions? Three elements of powerful PLCs are examined along with a comprehensive look at which instructional practices are foundational to a thriving PLC.

• The 7 Practices of Effective ED Leaders: A powerful session for administrators and instructional leaders focusing on research concerning the achievement gaps, elements of effective instruction, content area literacy, Common Core State Standards (if applicable), supporting effective instruction on campus, the four types of teachers, strategic conversations, and peer-coaching models that promote a culture of collaboration, instructional responsibility and data driven instruction that boosts student achievement.

• Digital Leadership~Harnessing the Power of Social Media: There is an online story being told about you and your organization. Learn how to "Brand" your personal and organization's reputation by capitalizing on how search engine optimizers and "page rankings" work, to positively promote your message to your stakeholders.

• #FULLYCHARGED & Fashioned to Reign: This fast-paced session examines neuroscience, historical female success stories, their impact on history, and the specific strengths of the female brain that empower it to nurture and lead others to success. (title from Kris Valloton's book)

"Parent & Community" Trainings

AEC offers a variety of parent trainings to foster a culture of collaboration between school and home.

Various topics include:

• The 7 Practices of Happy, Healthy and Successful Athletes, Students and Young Leaders

• PDP Cornell Notes: A Systematic Strategy to Aid Comprehension

• Neuroscience: 10 Strategies to Decrease Stress & Increase Cognitive & Emotional Success in the Young Brain

• Raising Brilliant, Compassionate & Happy Kids