Making the Hard Parts Easier: The Power of Connection & Relationships in Schools
This interactive professional development session explores how strong relationships can serve as a powerful foundation for student behavior, engagement, and learning. Designed for educators and school staff, the training focuses on connection not as an additional responsibility, but as a practical approach that can make classroom management more effective and teaching more rewarding.
Participants will examine how intentional relationships influence classroom climate, cooperation, and student success. Through reflection, discussion, research, and real-world examples, the session brings together concepts from resilience, trauma-informed practice, child development, neuroscience, and classroom management in a way that is accessible, relevant, and immediately applicable.
Grounded in the realities of today's classrooms, this training acknowledges the challenges educators face while offering practical strategies to strengthen connections, support students, and make the hard parts of teaching a little easier.
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Project LAUNCH shares free, online training opportunities created by trusted organizations and partners to help professionals better support young children and families.
These on-demand trainings are available at your own pace and can be a helpful fit for busy schedules, individual learning, or teams looking to build shared knowledge over time.
Explore the options below and choose the training that best supports your work.
Provided by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): This training helps pediatric providers better support children with ADHD by strengthening collaboration with schools. Participants will learn key AAP clinical guidelines, how to build and maintain relationships with school staff, and how to coordinate services, interventions, and accommodations. The course also equips providers to help families navigate barriers and improve outcomes for children both in care and in the classroom.
Provided by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, "This online course was developed for individuals who work with birth parents involved in the child welfare system, and offers tips for viewing parents through a trauma lens, practical strategies to provide effective support to parents, and reminders about the importance of professionals’ own self-care."
Provided by the Child Mind Institute, this 45-minute course, explores the foundations of behavior that support a positive classroom environment.
Made available by HeadStart, this training shares developmental reasons why young children behave in ways that are challenging to adults. Discover key strategies for addressing behaviors adults find challenging and supporting infants and toddlers when they exhibit them.
Provided by Institute for Research, Education & Training in Addictions, Dr. David White has synthesized over 20 years of research showing the effectiveness of this method to treat compassion fatigue. Forward-Facing Professional Resilience is intended to ameliorate compassion fatigue symptoms immediately.
