Building an Optimal Learning Environment Through Healing-Centered Practices

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This course was written by a real live human and is presented by them too.

Intermediate

Expands on basic knowledge with practical applications and more complex concepts.

1 CEUs

Your certificate of completion will be for 1 learning CEUs, including 0 ETH and 0 SUP.
IL-CCBD 2025
In this webinar, principal and leadership consultant Mary Mangione shares practical strategies for implementing healing-centered practices in the classroom. She examines how neuroplasticity, relationship-building, and consistent routines can support student learning and behavior. The session also highlights the importance of a shared educational language and includes real-world examples, emerging trends, and applying these approaches across varying learning environments.

What will I learn?

Objectives

Participation

 Audience

   Explain the importance of developing a shared educational language to create consistent expectations and conditions for learning, ensuring all staff can support students with aligned, proactive strategies across school settings.
   Describe how neuroplasticity allows the brain to rewire itself through repetition, enabling students to replace harmful patterns with positive ones and build confidence in learning environments that reinforce success.
   Explain how trauma-invested practices go beyond trauma-informed approaches by proactively shaping routines, relationships, and expectations to support the success of all students, particularly those who have struggled academically or behaviorally.
This learning opportunity is relevant for:
       General Educators
       Special Educators
       Behavior Analysts
       Building Administrators
       District Administrators
   self-guided learning on-demand
   50 minutes of video learning
   3 question learning check
   certificate of completion

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Who am I learning from?

Mary Mangione, MA

Mary Mangione is a coach for school building leaders specializing in creating specialized programming, restorative practices, adversity-informed schools, school-based mental wellness interventions, and multi-tiered systems of support. She has been a private tutor for students with special needs, special education teacher for ED/BD/ASC, mentor for a social services organization, substance abuse case manager, and assistant principal and principal of specialized and public alternative schools. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys traveling, eating great food, providing taxi services for her two sons, binging Netflix, and is an active yogi. Mary is an Administrative Coach for Building Leaders with her Bachelors in Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Graphic Design and Painting, Master of Arts in Special Education, and Master of Arts in Principal Leadership.

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