SCRR’s Spring 2023 Network of Practice
Seeds of Change: Growing what we need to know, do, and who we need to be as crisis renewal leaders
April 27, 2023
11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. PT / 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. CT / 2:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET (convert to your time zone)
Online via Zoom
What have we been learning together throughout our SCRR work? As we engage in our third year of school crisis recovery & renewal learning, what does recovery and renewal mean to us?
We come together as a network to offer what school crisis recovery and renewal has meant, can mean, and where we are taking the work.
What might you experience?
For our second Spring Network of Practice on April 27 2023, we are diving deeper into our theme by offering “Salon Spaces” to reflect on the “know, do and be” of school crisis leadership.
The SCRR Spring Network of Practice Intended Audience
Our Spring Network of Practice is for anyone interested in learning more about key takeaways from each of our SCRR programmatic offerings and how participants- members of our SCRR community- have moved those ideas into practice in their communities.
- Anyone who is interested in what school crisis recovery and renewal can mean, feel, and look like,
- Participants of any SCRR programming (coaching, consulting, communities of practice, Summer or Winter Institutes, workshops)
- Researchers, scholars, or academia who are interested in learning from practitioners
- Educators, school based mental health professionals, clinicians, youth advocates, family and caregivers, and school community members who have gone through big things (e.g., however you define “crisis”)
- Those involved in the crisis readiness and response continuum
- Anyone providing support to school systems and behavioral health systems (e.g., technical assistance organizations or entities, NCTSN members, etc.)
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is this program eligible for Continuing Education Hours (CEH)? No
- Will this offering be recorded? No
- Do I need to attend the whole event? Nope! Come for some, one or all.
- Who can I contact if I have additional questions? Email us at scrr [at] cars-rp.org with “SCRR Spring 2023 Network of Practice” in the subject line.
Session Materials
- General Session Slide Deck
- Salon 1 Materials
- Session 2 Materials
Updated Agenda
Welcome: 11:00 am – 11:30 am PT / 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET
- Grounding and settling
- Introduction to SCRR and Our Vision for Recovery and Renewal
- Reviewing our day together: introductions to the presentation sessions
Salon 1: Strategies & Tools of School Crisis Leadership
11:30am-12:10 pm PT // 2:30pm – 3:10 pm ET
Focusing on what we need to know and do to be school crisis leaders, this session will offer mini lessons on concrete strategies and tools from SCRR programs this past year. Missed a program that you wanted to attend? This is a great taster. Want to revisit an aspect of a program you went to but need a refresh? Participants will be able to pick a session to attend and skill up your leadership toolbox.
Salon 1 Offerings:
- Navigating the Specifics of Life After Loss – SCRR Project Director Leora Wolf-Prusan, facilitates a text study on “Creating and Holding Space for Ourselves and Each Other After Student Death” a guide developed in partnership with The Dinner Party for processing, meaning-making, and integration after a student death. Join her to hone in on skills and tools toward navigating life after loss as a school crisis leader.
- “You Gotta Feel It, to Heal It” – Slow down with SCRR Field Coach Oriana Ides for a guided practice that supports us in noticing the quality of our thoughts as a way to manage stress, overwhelm and deficit thinking. This strategy, first introduced in our Self-Attuning to Emotional Activation Community of Practice, cultivates awareness and attuning as well as compassion for our conditioned responses, triggers, strong emotions and compulsions as a path towards healing.
- OMG! Are we in post-Covid-traumatic growth yet!!? How would we know? – Join us as we take a tour of post-traumatic growth theory and praxis and apply to our COVID experiences. Where are we on this continuum? Or is it a spiral? A labyrinth? In this workshop, we will review elements of pst-traumatic growth theory and apply to our individual and school-based or organizational experiences with SCRR Field Director Jen Leland and Matthew Reddam from the Butte County Office of Education.
Transition Back to Main Room & Break
12:10 pm – 12:20 pm PT // 3:10 pm – 3:20 pm ET
Introduction to Salon 2 Options
12:20 pm – 12:30 pm PT// 3:20 pm – 3:30pm ET
Salon 2: Meaning Making & Support for School Crisis Leaders
12:30pm – 1:10 pm PT // 3:30pm-4:10pm ET
We will use this time to focus on who we need to be (relationally with ourselves and others) as school crisis leaders, this salon designed for shared meaning-making and support. Participants select a session focused on a specific theme or topic that arose in an SCRR program this year and be able to participate in a discussion space with other members of the SCRR community facilitated by our field coaches. Salon 2 breakouts are designed for us to have connected time and space to make meaning of our school crisis leadership experiences this past year.
Salon 2 Offerings:
- Together in Grief: Supporting Youth & Adults in Schools – Elevating the conversations that arose in our Honoring Grief in Our Classrooms Community of Practice this discussion space will take up the question of “How might we, as school-based staff, attend to both the grief of young people and adults in our school communities?” With SCRR Field Coach Brianna Young.
- Making Love Visible – This space will be held for Black, Indigenous People of Color to uplift and discuss the importance of having safe spaces to explore our experiences as BIPOC Folks in our work as educators and mental health practitioners. Together, we will highlight ways in which we have or might forage spaces of infinity in our work worlds with SCRR Field Coach Oriana Ides and Alica Forneret.
- Case Consult Lab – In this session, SCRR Field Director Jen Leland will hold space for participants to bring their crisis recovery tensions and she alongside our community can provide peer consultation, critical friendship and support.
Integration & Closing
1:15pm -1:30 pm PT// 4:15 pm – 4:30pm ET
Quotes from Winter 2023 Network of Practice participants
“As a participant/presenter, I was deeply grateful… for being in dialogue in our different professional and personal lenses.”
“The presenter I went to was incredible and had a lot of story telling and tid bits of empowering language I can bring back to my community.”
“[The conversation in the peer presentation I attended} was very enlightening and thought provoking. I appreciate the insights they offered.”