Professional Development with The Moxie Teacher

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Professional Development

Helping you bring a little more Moxie to your classrooms.

Interactive, classroom-ready training for educators and youth-serving organizations. Each session is practical, relationship-centered, and built from over a decade working with students.

Participants leave with tools and activities that they can implement right away in their classrooms.

Session Topics

Interactive Professional Development Created By A Tea

Creating a Moxie Classroom

Theme: Supporting Confidence, Belonging, and Resilience in Students.

This session focuses on building classroom environments that strengthen student confidence, connection, and emotional skills through practical SEL integration.

  • Building student confidence and voice

  • Increasing belonging and classroom connection

  • Everyday SEL integration

  • Empathy-based student support

  • Community-building routines and activities

Trauma-Informed Practices

Theme: Belonging, Emotional Regulation, and Restorative Practices

This session helps educators understand trauma responses and apply relationship-centered and restorative approaches to student behavior and regulation.

  • Trauma and stress responses in students

  • Emotional regulation support strategies

  • Relationship-centered classroom management

  • Restorative conversations and repair

  • Responding to shame and defensive behaviors