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Jenny Winkler, PhD, MPH
Public Health Professional, Facilitator, Mediator, and Educational Consultant
Schools are dynamic environments with multiple priorities competing for our time and attention. How do we move into sustained action in fully implementing our intention to create a positive school culture and build the supportive, caring environment we know is possible?
Schools around the country are working to address declines in mental health and increases in chronic absenteeism. While we are clear that we want to take action on building psychological safety and improving school climate, it is sometimes difficult to know how to begin.
In this session, participants will learn important strategies for moving from wanting change to actually creating it at their school. They will leave with a plan for building a school culture leadership team to guide the work collaboratively and beginning to look at data for addressing the most urgent issues in their own setting.
Learning Objectives
During the webinar, we will:
- Identify appropriate team members for a school culture and climate leadership team.
- Learn how to leverage data to pinpoint urgent issues at your school/district.
- Understand the need to select one or two high-leverage practices to begin with.
- Consider how you can embed school culture and climate goals into daily routines and practices.
Presenter
Jenny Winkler is a public health professional, facilitator, mediator, and educational consultant with a focus on building healthy communities and transforming conflict. She has a PhD in public health with a focus on conflict management as a strategy for health promotion. In her work for the National Conflict Resolution Center, she supported school districts in integrating restorative practices throughout their systems and programs. She currently teaches restorative justice for the University of San Diego, works with Aarhus University in Denmark to support international health research partnerships, and collaborates with school districts on the development of systems of support and using data for continuous improvement.
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