Professional Development Workshops
Accelerated Teaching Collection
The topics in this collection will boost your knowledge and skills about the brain in a hurry! You’ll understand how the brains of children and youth develop and learn. Most important, you’ll be empowered with the tools to use this knowledge to accelerate each teaching opportunity you have every day. This treasure-trove of knowledge and skills is not just for professional educators, but for any adult who wants to be more effective in teaching the children and youth in their care. This is powerful science. UDO makes it powerfully practical.
Brain Matters | Right From the Start | The New IQ | Change Your Language, Change Their Lives | Jack's Brain, Jill's Brain | My Awesome Brain | See, Experience, Tell | Beyond 30 Something | Giving a Fish a Bath | Conquering Boredom
The Challenging Behaviors Collection
The topics in this collection tackle the most common emotional, behavioral and social issues facing child-serving organizations. Poverty, child abuse, ADHD, stress, bullying, suicide and addiction are addressed from the perspective of the developing brain. By understanding what happens in the brain in these contexts, you will be armed with the knowledge needed to apply the right interventions and supports at the right time. This is powerful science. UDO makes it powerfully practical.
Beyond Poverty | Child Abuse and the Brain | Rethinking ADHD | Secrets of the Stressed Out Brain | Battling the Bully | The Saddest Song | Trouble Letting Go
Organizational Leadership Collection
The topics in this collection provide leaders in child-serving organizations with conceptual foundations, strategic scaffolds, and specific skills required to create powerful, life changing, transformational cultures for children and youth. These workshops support and scaffold the Leadership Development Consultation provided by UDO to those organizations interested in implementing Transformation Education.
Creating the Upside Down Organization | Leadership and the Modern Mind | Transforming the Culture of Conflict
Parent University
These learning experiences offer specialized learning for parents and foster parents in this most crucial of all roles in the life of a child. No matter what your level of expertise, Parent University can help you add new skills and polish your existing ones. These workshops focus on helping parents understand how a child's brain grows and develops, what behaviors are normal in the developmental process, and specific actions parents can take to boost brain growth at every crucial stage of childhood.
Note: While "Building Great Brains" and "Buried Treasure" are specific to the Parent University Category, many of the learning experiences in the Accelerated Teaching Collection and the Challenging Behaviors Collection are designed to help parents improve their knowledge and skills in targeted academic and behavorial areas. Parents should take a moment to check out all of UDO's offerings!
A Parent's Guide to Building Great Brains | Buried Treasure
