Please Save the Date for Bank Street’s Sixth Annual
Emotionally Responsive Schools Conference
“ERP in Times of Crisis”
Friday, December 4, 2020 | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Virtual Event

About this Event

Bank Street’s Emotionally Responsive Schools Conference is a day of collaboration and study of Emotionally Responsive Practice (ERP) in early childhood, elementary, and middle school settings.

This year, Lesley Koplow, LCSW, Director of Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street, and Mark Nagasawa, PhD, Director of the Straus Center at Bank Street, will present a keynote on “The Story of Teacher Mental Health in Our Time.” A series of morning and afternoon workshops will follow. 

Workshop Information

  • Essentials of Emotionally Responsive Practice with Rachel Hass
  • Bringing Teddy Bears to Life in the Classroom with Felice Wagman
  • Racism is Trauma: Classroom As “ Good Mirror” for All Children With a Focus on Black, Indigenous, People of Color with Shannon Vasquez
  • Advocacy for Emotionally Responsive Practice with Mark Nagasawa
  • The Zoom Room As Story Quilt: Connecting our Virtual Windows to Create an Emotionally Responsive Remote Community with Margaret Blachly
  • Supporting Parents and Families When the School’s Doors Are Closed with Eva Peck and Rachel Hass
  • ERP: A Path to Infant/Toddler Mental Health with Gabriel Guyton, Turkessa Batan, and Laura Martin
  • Teacher Round Table: Using ERP in Troubled Times, A Focus on Bibliotherapy
  • Using Teddy Bears in Traumatic Times with Lesley Koplow
  • Nourishing the Black Mind West of Africa: Supporting our Children and Families in our School Communities with Romelle Moore

Additional Information

  • Registration: $175 per person or $1,100 per school (covers 7 staff)

Become an ERP School

  • Enhanced Level 1: $3,500 (covers 7 staff people plus 2 half-day follow up sessions)
  • Enhanced Level 2: $8,000 (covers 7 staff people plus 6 half-day follow up sessions)

Participants will receive 5 Social Work CE credits, 5 Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Hours or .5 Continuing Education Unit.

Register Now via Eventbrite (credit card)
Register Now via PO/Check


Copyright © 2020 Bank Street College of Education, All rights reserved.

unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences