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Self-Regulation for Learning: Essential Skills for Success

*this webinar is streamed on Facebook

Parents will learn about self-regulation for learning and be offered useful strategies to help their children be better prepared for the complexities of life on-line and beyond the K-12 setting.

Dr. Richard M. Cash is an award-winning educator who has worked in the field of education for more than 30 years.

Supporting Your Child’s Writing When You are Not Their Teacher

*this webinar is streamed on Facebook

The writing process is frequently stressful for students and may become an additional source of frustration for families during quarantine.  Join Cori Paulet to discuss simple strategies you can use to reduce tensions and support your child’s writing without needing to be the expert.

Cori Paulet holds an MA in gifted, creative, and talented education from the University of St. Thomas, MN.  Cori is an education consultant and writing coach.

How do we encourage kids to “be all they can be,” without creating perfectionists?  Pursuing excellence, while leaving behind perfectionism’s destructive anxiety, begins with an understanding of the psychology of perfectionism.  Learn how to use this understanding to create perfectionism’s antidote.

Thomas S. Greenspon, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice.  He earned his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois.  Tom lectures and writes on a variety of topics including perfectionism and the emotional needs of gifted children and adults.

Let’s talk about getting ready for home-based learning!  Students and parents both benefit from developing temporary home-based learning structures because they provide consistency and reduce stress on everyone.  In this live chat Melissa will talk about how to “do school” from home by setting a consistent daily schedule, creating learner workspaces, and organizing information.

Melissa Malen, Ph.D. is a life-long student who is a Valedictorian and has earned a B.A. in Psychology from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Minnesota.  She coaches students to achieve their highest potential, specially while learning skills to support giftedness as well as giftedness combined with learning challenges such as ADHD, Nonverbal Learning Disability, ASD, anxiety or dyslexia.