Dear Schools That Heal, 

Happy New Year! If you have been with us before, you will notice some new and different additions to the array of services available for the 2025-26 school year. Indeed, the coming years may be challenging for people who

work with and care about children and their teachers, and supporting both communities will be essential. 

Schools That Heal will continue to offer Level 1 seminars which provides participants with the foundational elements of Emotionally Responsive Practice as well as introducing classroom friendly techniques to promote wellbeing in children. Level 2 seminars for those who have already taken Level 1 will continue to be topic focused and involve classroom observations. The topic for the 2025-26 school year will be "How Politics Comes to School: Looking at Children's Play, Drawing, Dictation, and Writing."

In addition, Schools That Heal will continue to offer a quarterly Directors Forum for all participating school directors. This gathering allows directors to connect around their common experiences as administrators in the independent school world and has been a powerful piece of the program for the last 13 years. 

To supplement seminar learning, schools may want to purchase copies of "Emotionally Responsive Practice:

A Path for Schools That Heal". This will make it easier for those who attend the sessions to share with staff who have not yet attended.

Currently, our Schools That Heal Network includes:

The  City and Country School

The Smith Street School

The West Side Montessori School 

BHS Pre-School

The Plymouth Church School

The May Family Nursery School

Bank Street Family Center

Whether  you are renewing or signing up for the first time, please read the description of Schools That Heal services 2025-26 carefully and let me know if you have questions! Early registration will began January 15th and end April 15th, 2025. The regular registration period continues until June 6th. We hope to welcome your school to our Schools That Heal community.

Stay well,