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Educator Resilience Summit

Prioritizing Staff Wellbeing and Supportive School Cultures

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Rewriting the “Good Teacher” Narrative: Self-Care & Sustainability

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Learn More About Alexis Shepard

Alexis Shepard is a 9th year educator in Upstate, South Carolina with both middle level and elementary experience. After multiple encounters with burn-out, a desire to take steps towards self-care led to the creation of her brand, The AfroEducator. Originally intended to facilitate connections with like-minded educators, a passion was ignited in Alexis to empower teachers towards wellness. In her work, Alexis seeks to create pervasive perceptions of wellness that will improve teacher outlook and sustainability. As The AfroEducator, Alexis champions teacher self-care through education, reflection, and dialogue. She believes that by sharing her stories, she can inspire and empower teachers to take control of their own narratives.

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Good Sleep as a Protective Factor for Mental Health & Wellbeing

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Learn More About Birdie Cunningham

Birdie is a social-entrepreneur with twenty years of experience in public health developing and implementing multi-faceted programs, interventions and outreach for health and wellness, with a concentration on sleep research and behavior change. In addition to starting Spndle, she is currently the Associate Director of Health Promotion, at the Center for Well-Being at the University of St. Thomas, and past Director of Operations & Programming for the Center for College Sleep. She is past president of the North Central College Health Association and in 2017 received the Ruth E. Boynton Award for Distinguished Service to the American College Health Association. Birdie has otherwise been helping organizations with population sleep strategies for over a decade.

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8 Simple Steps to Go from Burned-Out to Burned-In

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Learn More About Amber Harper

Amber Harper is an author, educator, Teacher Burnout Coach, and Certified Google Trainer whose mission is to Activate Teacher Self-Empowerment to beat burnout and live a happy, fulfilled life. She’s the founder of www.burnedinteacher.com and is obsessed with helping educators go from burned-out to BURNED-IN. She also hosts a weekly podcast dedicated to action, inspiration, and support for teachers dealing with teacher burnout called The Burned-In Teacher Podcast.

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Reflective Practice on the Go: Using Strategic Moments to Support Teachers in Reflecting on their Work

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Learn More About Julia Bantimba

Julia earned her MS in occupational therapy at Boston University’s Sargent College, and has been practicing as a licensed occupational therapist since 2013. Currently, Julia works for Seneca Family of Agencies as a full-time trauma-informed care/occupational therapy consultant to their five non-public schools. There, she provides support to staff through modeling strategies with students, clinical consultation, trainings to their multidisciplinary team of staff, as well as consultation regarding school policies and procedures. Prior to Seneca, Julia worked for A Better Way, Inc. in Oakland, CA providing direct therapy for children birth through adolescence, who have extensive trauma and/or are involved in the child welfare system, and who have difficulty with sensory and emotional regulation. Additionally, Julia’s consultation and trainings in the community focus on the ways in which early childhood trauma impacts the development and function of the sensory system, highlighting the ways in which providers of any discipline can utilize sensory-based strategies to regulate their clients. Julia is a certified Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics trainer, faculty member and graduate of the UC Davis-Napa Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship and is trained in multiple models. She has completed certification in: Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT Phase I and II), Attachment, Regulation and Competency Model (ARC), the Newborn Behavior Observation (NBO), Fussy Baby Level 1, NCAST Feeding Scale, and various Cultural Humility trainings including train-the-trainer.

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Happy Teacher Revolution: Supporting the Mental Health and Wellness of Educators Around the World

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Learn More About Danna Thomas

Danna Thomas is a former Baltimore City Public School teacher turned founder of a global initiative to support the mental health and wellness of educators. Her organization, Happy Teacher Revolution, is on a mission to increase teacher happiness, retention, and professional sustainability by providing educators with the time and space to heal, deal, and be real about the social-emotional demands they face on the job. Danna served as the national spokeswoman for the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Maryland and the “Music for Mental Health” campaign. She is the recipient of the 2019 Johns Hopkins Community Hero Award and the 2019 winner of the Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab. Danna’s favorite forms of self-care include playing backgammon, community hot yoga, and rocking out on the saxophone.Courtney Vollan Daikos is an educational leader with nearly 20 years of public school leadership experience as classroom teacher, instructional coach, K-12 administrator and as a consultant. As Lead Consultant and Co-Founder of Continua Consulting Group, Courtney supports school districts in successfully implementing the Trauma-Informed Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (T-MTSS) framework. Courtney’s expertise in instructional design, leadership, child development, culturally responsive pedagogy and systems implementation provide for skillful, strategic consultation to principals, system and teacher leaders. Courtney holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from University of Illinois, a Master of Education Degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from University of Washington, and a P-3 Executive Leadership Certificate from the University of Washington’s P-3 Center.

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Emotionally Healthy Educators

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Learn More About Denise Moody

Denise Moody is the Assistant Director of Student Services with Rochester Public Schools. She has been working in educational settings for fifteen years, working with early childhood through high school age students primarily at the district level. Ms. Moody has special interest in the area of trauma-informed systems of care, school-based mental health and multi-tiered systems of support. She has been an adjunct professor at Winona State University in the Department of Social Work since 2006 and has a small private practice providing psychotherapy to adolescents and adults. Ms. Moody holds a bachelor’s degree from Winona State University in Social Work and a master’s degree from the University of St. Thomas/College of St. Catherine in Social Work. She has also completed post graduate work in the area of Educational Leadership with the University of Minnesota and is licensed as a Director of Special Education and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Ms. Moody is also the Founder and Director of an educational consulting and events firm, Resilience Impact, LLC.

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