Events

This session will provide information on how children understand and misunderstand crises and how best to explain it to them in order to promote their understanding and adjustment. Group discussions (such as within classrooms) pose unique challenges; advice on how to address anger and blame in group settings will be discussed. Free resources, including guidance documents for parents/caregivers and websites with related information on supporting children in the aftermath of crisis and loss, will be shared. Ample time will be provided for questions and discussion.

In this webinar, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will celebrate these powerful partnerships while sharing Department priorities. The event is a call-to-action for parents and caregivers, educators, family engagement practitioners, state and local leaders, and organizations that support effective family engagement. Timed to coincide with National Parent Involvement Day (November 16, 2023), the event demonstrates the Department's commitment to supporting parents and the success of their children and will feature the Secretary and other senior Department officials in conversation with Grace Bastidas of Parents.

The purpose of this webinar is to build on the didactic content covered in our earlier learning sessions on executive function and provide more opportunity to cover a case example, engage in discussion, and have ample time for Q&A. In each session, the host will provide a very brief overview of the prior covered content, have an in-depth discussion of one case example, and ample time for questions and open conversation related to the mental health of autistic students.

In this webinar, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will define and discuss what child labor exploitation looks like in the United States and the ways that schools can help address it. Experts from the DOL will present data on the types of cases they are seeing, including young people working inherently dangerous jobs. Educators and school staff can be the first adults to be concerned about a youth being exploited in a work situation, so the webinar will highlight what roles schools have in identifying and intervening to get students out of dangerous situations. The webinar will also include a panel discussion to better understand the experiences of youth who have been exploited in a work environment and feature an expert with lived experience and experts working directly with youth in schools. The webinar will end with a live Q&A to respond to questions related to child labor exploitation and how schools can play a role in addressing it.

This 60-minute session is a case-based discussion covering the process of assessing readiness for college, accessing accommodations, and preparing youth with a history of psychosis to transition to college.

This webinar will give an overview of work being done by the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) and how they incorporate best practices in their work. Following the MCEC overview participants will hear about a specific MCEC program called the Purple Star Initiative and what Purple Star Schools do to support military-connected children and their families. Following these presentations, participants will hear about the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCTSN) and how MCEC and NCTSN are working together to form multi-tiered supports to ensure Military and Veteran Children and receiving the supports that fit their individual needs.

In this webinar, CDC speaker Susan Hocevar Adkins, MD, will discuss the benefits of establishing and maintaining public health and educational agency partnerships. The speaker will also highlight emergency preparedness planning with schools, the intersection between public health and schools, and the logistics of working with schools to improve community preparedness.

In this webinar, subject matter experts will talk about what cyberbullying and harassment can look like, the prevalence of the problem, and the impacts these experiences have on young people’s physical and mental health. They will explore recommendations for what schools and other adults and peers can do to prevent cyberbullying and harassment and support young people who are experiencing it. They will also discuss digital citizenship and digital wellness as intervention frameworks that may help stop students from engaging in online bullying and harassment and support those students who are experiencing it.

The National Summit on K-12 School Safety and Security is a free, virtual event that combines discussion, education, engagement, and knowledge-sharing among school safety stakeholders. Through the event, attendees will hear from government, private sector, and community leaders in the field, who will speak about current and critical school safety issues, threats, and solutions.

In this virtual training event, NTAC researchers highlight the key findings and implications from their research on school violence prevention. In this training, you will learn about the background, thinking, and behavior of school attackers and how some schools discovered and stopped plots before violence occurred. This training will provide guidance on how schools may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model.