Become a certified trainer to present the Educating Students Experiencing Homelessness, Instability, and Disengagement workshop to colleagues. Your trainer will be Dr. Ruby Payne, author of the book and workshop. Instruction will be given on how to cover all seven chapters of the book, as well as tips and tricks to make the workshop interactive.

Below is an overview of the workshop you will become certified to train about:

This workshop looks at what homelessness, instability, and disengagement do to learning and the strategies and understandings that are necessary to address those issues. The workshop covers a social cognitive framework that includes the role of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in learning and how safety and belonging impact the prefrontal cortex. Multiple strategies will be given.

Workshop topics include:

• How homelessness, instability, and disengagement reduce learning

• The role of the autonomic nervous system in learning, behavior, and well-being

• How the instability of resources, the demands of time, and the demands of the environment impact the ANS

• Tools to negotiate the abstract realities of school—planning, language, digital realities, Internet access, formal register, voices

• Strategies for calming students

• Strategies for school success

• How to build a wider community level of support