This page lists a selected number of professional development free for EARCOS members and provides access to recent virtual events.
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Supporting Teachers to Strengthen Classroom Management
Presented by: Jessica Werner
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT This course is designed for administrators who want to more effectively support teachers with classroom management. Leaders gain a clear, neuroscience-informed framework for understanding behavior and coaching teachers toward proactive, consistent practices. |
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Building an Identity-Conscious Practice
Presented by: Liza Talusan
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT We all know that being identity-conscious is an inclusive approach to leadership. But, what does that really mean? Join Dr. Talusan as we explore how identity - our own and that of others - informs our social interactions, decision making, and behaviors at work and in our personal communities. |
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Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools (TCIS)
Presented by: Mary Ruberti
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT Students with high exposure to trauma and other types of adverse childhood experiences are at high risk of impaired self-regulation and executive function (skills that help individuals focus, plan, prioritize, work towards goals, self-regulate behaviors and emotions, adapt to new and unexpected situations, and ultimately engage in thinking and planning), which manifest in the classroom as inattention, impulsivity, defiance, conflicts with peers and adults, and poor classroom and academic performance. |
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Lift Every Voice: Building Inclusive Classroom Libraries for Every Learner
Presented by: Julia Torres
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT In this session, educators and school librarians will learn basic principles and explore resources for building inclusive, culturally responsive classroom libraries. Connecting principles of librarianship and literacy instruction, educator and librarian Julia Torres will work with particpants to help explore tools and bridge gaps in collections and curriculum. |
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CARE: Creating Conditions for Change
Presented by: Mary Ruberti
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT The CARE model is a principle-based program model that provides child-serving organizations such as schools, residential treatment programs, juvenile justice, and foster care programs a set of research and standard-informed principles to guide decision- making and practice choices that are in the best of interests of the children they serve. |
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Part 1: Brave Conversations — Naming What Matters
Presented by: Lauren Jones
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM HKT Participants will explore leadership's critical role in inclusive practices, learning to create a culture of belonging and developing action plans to engage the school community. This series focuses on guiding school vision and culture, particularly shifting mindsets toward inclusion. We will learn to identify and build a team to navigate cultural and belief shifts, understand effective advocacy, and take steps to move the school community toward one centered on diversity and inclusion. Participants will collaborate, network, and gain practical tools to develop effective advocacy teams for inclusion. |
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Part 2: Brave Decisions — Acting Where It Counts
Presented by: Lauren Jones
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM HKT Expanding student support requires intentional financial planning. This workshop introduces practical financial models that allow schools to sustainably expand inclusion while maintaining strong academic programs. Participants explore staffing models, fee structures, cost-per-student considerations, and budgeting strategies that support long-term program viability. |
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Part 3: Brave Cultures — Building Schools That Welcome Every Kid
Presented by: Lauren Jones
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT Inclusive schools are built through coherent systems, not isolated programs. This workshop focuses on the operational structures that support inclusion, including admissions protocols, staffing models, tiered systems of support, and professional learning. Participants examine how schools can align these systems to create sustainable and consistent support for diverse learners. |
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Building Conflict Resilience for Difficult Conversations
Presented by: Bob Bordone
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT In this session, Bob will share what is going on in our brain when we are faced with conflict and how we can re-train our brains to be more conflict resilient in the face of disagreement. In order to be effective teachers and administrators, we need to reframe our orientation toward conflict and then retrain our brains to sit with the discomfort of disagreement. |
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Beyond Silos: A Framework for Seamless Collaboration in Schools
Presented by: Jared Simmons
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT School initiatives rarely fall short for lack of good ideas or good people. Instead, the real culprits are hidden "seams," the unseen failure points where decision rights are unclear, handoffs break down, or incentives quietly pull in different directions. These are often the true reasons behind a delayed rollout or a program that never delivered its expected impact. |
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Dynamic Risk Management for School Excursions: From Pre-Trip Planning to Real-Time Decision-Making
Presented by: David Gregory
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT School trips are a very important part of education as they provide real-world experiences which support learning back in the classroom. However, they remain one of the highest-risk activities schools undertake. The gap between what we think will happen and what actually does is where incidents occur, but often what good risk management and safety looks like isn’t clearly defined nor understood. |
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Resilience: Reframing Individualism to Collectivism in Conceptualizing the Student Experience
Presented by: Meeta Gandhi
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT This session reframes the concept of resilience though a social justice lens that centers the collective rather than the individual and recognizes that the capacity to overcome adversity is deeply rooted in the strengths and resources of a community. |
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Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education
Presented by: Leon Furze
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has continued to disrupt many industries, including education. Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, education providers have been coming to terms with increasingly capable, multimodal GenAI like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and DeepSeek. |
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Asian American Youth Literature in Classrooms and Libraries
Presented by: Sarah Park Dahlen
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM HKT In this workshop, participants will learn about the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Rubric to Evaluate Asian American and Pacific Islander American Youth Literature (https://www.apalaweb.org/talkstorytogether/resources/). We will discuss the rubric in the context of current and historical representation of AAPI individuals and communities in various media. |