Let’s co-regulate!
Professional development and products that move teachers from surviving to thriving each day.
You matter. You have the power to transform the classroom. We teach you how.
“34 years of teaching and this is the first professional development I have ever returned from and implemented strategies that day!”
Charlena, 4th grade teacher
With The Regulated Classroom©, you’ll:
✓ Be able to take care of yourself first—all while helping your students!
✓ Experience a reinvigoration in your career and increased joy in the classroom.
✓ Have easy-to-use practices & tools at your fingertips to help regulate your classroom at any moment.
✓ Gain a deeper understanding of what will help when students are stressed, out of control, or lethargic.
✓ Experience an improved school culture as these tools and knowledge spread.
FEATURED IN
“Your training changed me. The Regulated Classroom restored in me the fire that was fading.”
Sarah Summerlin, Special education teacher
You have been through A LOT in recent years, but especially in the wake of a pandemic.
What if we could help you do more than just survive each day in the classroom?
Both the Maine Department of Education and the New Hampshire Department of Education selected The Regulated Classroom as part of their statewide pandemic recovery effort to address staff and student trauma.
AND the results have been outstanding.
The Regulated Classroom provides educators with a framework that enables co-regulation between teachers and students. It does this by helping educators understand the why of the 4 Core Practices. The 4 Core Practices represent the quality of developmental
experiences that buffer stress and trauma and support sequential growth and development. Simply put, they are 1-3 minute micro-moments of classwide co-regulation that reset everyone.
You can’t solve every problem in your students’ lives, but you can equip them with invaluable frequent and repetitive experiences that enable them to have more flexible, resilient nervous systems.
The best part is these tools work for YOU, too. When you’re regulated, it’s easier for the people around you to be regulated.
Framework
The
The Regulated Classroom is a somatosensory and Polyvagal-informed framework that cultivates conditions for felt safety in the classroom. Felt safety is foundational to fostering healthy relationships and academic achievement in the classroom.
Beginning with the educator's nervous system, the framework recognizes the significance and importance of the adult's well-being in order to enable student well-being through co-regulation.
The Regulated Classroom framework consists of 4 Core Practices and sensory tools for educators to embed with great frequency into daily routines and activities to promote a more consistently regulated and stable environment for learning. These practices are:
CONNECTORS: Practices that are rooted in the therapeutic benefits of play and cultivate relationships in the classroom, such as “Back to back countdown” or “Gotcha.”
ACTIVATORS: Collective rhythm-making practices grounded in the theory of regulating the brainstem and stimulating collective synchrony in the classroom, such as “Angel stretch.”
SETTLERS: Practices to calm the body’s stress response and down-regulate the body, such as mindfulness, deep breathing, and self-holds.
AFFIRMATIONS: Practices that reinforce positive associations in the classroom experience, such as communicating embodied gratitude.
Professional Development
Our professional development is literally the best around! We receive RAVE reviews from every. single. training. Our virtual and in-person professional development teaches educators how to self and co-regulate in the classroom using The Regulated Classroom framework. Learn more about our hands-on professional development that reinvigorates staff and gives them fresh ideas to begin using the very next day!
"In 25+ years in education, I found this to be the BEST PD I have ever attended. Not only were the activities explained, why they work was proven to us as participants by having us participate in microdoses. I am a huge skeptic who does not like to participate in what I call "feel good group activities"... but, even through my skepticism and without the enthusiasm others exuded, the activity worked -- if I was supposed to connect, I did. Thank you for your time and patience as you understood and accepted that some people are reluctant participants. Having us do the practices made me a believer."
Administrator from Belfast Admin Train the Trainer
Emily Read Daniels, M.Ed., MBA, NCC, SEP™ in training
Author and Creator of The Regulated Classroom©
Emily has a B.A. in Sociology and Women Studies and a Master’s of Education in School Counseling from the University of Delaware. She also holds a MBA in Organizational and Environmental Sustainability from Antioch University New England.
She is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) through the NBCC (National Board of Certified Counselors) and continually refines her understanding of the applied science of trauma.
She has completed more than 120 hours of training in Somatic Experiencing.™ She has trained in SMART (Sensory-Motor Arousal Therapy) as well as trauma-informed sensory modulation with Dr. Tina Champagne. She’s participated in small group consultation with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and completed an introductory class in NMT™ (Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics). She’s a Reiki practitioner and completed a certificate in the Penn Program for Mindfulness.
She relishes opportunities for nerding out – refining her skills, broadening her knowledge, and improving her effectiveness as a trainer, consultant, facilitator, and leader.
The Guidebook
and Other Materials
The Regulated Classroom wants to empower you to start co-regulating right now! Our Revised 5th Edition Guidebook, Classroom Co-Regulation Toolkit, and Educator Self-Care Sensory Mini Kit all equip you to implement the framework and immediately see the difference in your classroom or among the students you work with.
The Regulated Classroom Guidebook is an amazing resource for all educators. The guidebook is written in an easy to read format with just the right amount of science and strategies that anyone can take back to their classroom and implement the next day. This is exactly what we have been looking for in our district!”
Jen Cutler, Director of SEL
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It’s time to decrease stress and increase joy in the classroom!
If you’re ready to bring these powerful tools to your classroom, team, or school, but aren’t sure where to start, we’d love to hear from you. You can always reach out to us and we will be in touch!
