Overview
In this workshop, attendees will explore and learn deeply how the brain develops, behaves, processes adversity/trauma and the importance of attachment. Dr. Lori Desautels will address this discipline of applied educational neuroscience through an education lens with an emphasis on the brain's stress response, emotional regulation and brain aligned strategies that promote regulation, relationship and improved cognition and cortical function. This calls for a new perspective in disciplining students who carry in pain based behaviors.
Learning Objectives
Presenter Information
Dr. Lori Desautels, is an Assistant Professor at both undergraduate and graduate programs at Butler University. Before coming to Butler, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis. Lori taught emotionally troubled students in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center. Lori was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.
Lori's passion is engaging her students through neuroscience in education, integrating Mind Brain Teaching and learning principles and strategies into her courses at Marian. Lori has conducted workshops throughout the United States and Dubai on Mind Brain Teaching and Learning creating two webinars and a series of articles for "Inside the School," an online publication originating from Madison Wisconsin. Lori's articles are published in Edutopia, Brain Bulletin and Mind Body Spirit international magazine. She recently was published in the Brain Research Journal for math and sciences for her work in the fifth-grade classrooms this year during a faculty in residence position with Washington Township Schools. Lori graduated with a BS in Special Education from Butler University, as MS in counseling education from Indiana University and earned her Ph.D. in philosophy with an emphasis in early adolescence/thought formation from Indiana University and AIHT. Lori's website is at www.revelationsineducation.com. Lori has written a book entitled, "How May I Serve You, Revelations in Education" published in March of 2012. She has currently published a second book, entitled, "Unwritten, The Story of a Living System", co-authoring with educator Mr. Michael McKnight.
Important Details
This presentation is approved for 4.6 continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.
Registration may be cancelled up to 14 days prior to the event for a full refund. Cancellations received within 14 days of the event will not be refunded. No-show registrations will also not be refunded.