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NEA-NH Fall Instructional Conference
NEA-NH Fall Instructional Conference
I am excited to return to the NEA-NH Fall Instructional Conference to present three practical, strategy-focused sessions for educators and education support professionals. Each workshop will provide participants with realistic tools they can use to better understand student behavior, respond effectively during challenging moments, and support students’ emotional and behavioral needs.
Diffusing the Difficult Child: Ways to Help Student Behaviors When They Are Happening
Session A-06 | PK–5 and ESP
Learn practical, in-the-moment strategies for responding to challenging behaviors while reducing escalation, maintaining connection, and helping students regain control.
From Worry to Calm: Helping Young Students Manage Anxiety
Session B-09 | PK–2 and ESP
Explore how anxiety may appear in young children and discover supportive strategies that promote emotional safety, regulation, confidence, and classroom participation.
Working Through the Behaviors of ADHD
Session C-14 | PK–8 and ESP
Develop a deeper understanding of the behaviors associated with ADHD and walk away with practical strategies for supporting attention, impulsivity, movement, organization, and emotional regulation.
I look forward to connecting with educators from across New Hampshire and sharing strategies they can bring back to their classrooms and begin using right away.
VTAEYC Annual Early Childhood Education Conference
VTAEYC Annual Early Childhood Education Conference
I am excited to present From Chaos to Calm: Proactive Strategies That Transform Early Childhood Classrooms at the VTAEYC Annual Early Childhood Education Conference.
October 22, 2026 | 1:30–3:00 p.m. EDT
This practical, engaging session will help early childhood educators better understand what young children may be communicating through challenging behavior. Participants will explore proactive strategies for preventing escalation, strengthening relationships, supporting regulation, and creating calmer, more responsive classroom environments. Educators will leave with realistic tools they can begin using immediately with the children in their care.
BER - Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self Regulation (Grades PK-2)
Designed Specifically for Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare Providers, Specialists Who Work with Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Decrease challenging behaviors while increasing self-regulation for all your students
How-to strategies to decrease attention-getting behaviors and increase motivation for students lacking readiness and self-awareness
Proven intervention strategies to address problematic behaviors when they occur and to proactively support behavior changes in the future
Extensive disruptive behaviors digital resource handbook filled with intervention and prevention strategies that work for grades PreK-2 students
Practical Ideas and Strategies
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher Melissa Davis understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can't control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention.
You'll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
BER - Helping Students Who Have or Might Have ADHD (Grades Pre-K - 12)
Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades PreK-12: General Education Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Effective and proven intervention strategies for excessive fidgeting or restlessness, difficulty staying seated or quiet, and frequent interrupting
Specific, practical strategies to reduce disruptive and often repeated, attention-getting behaviors including roaming, blurting out, excessive talking, and inability to focus
Practical, proven tools to help you improve student behavior … Increase productivity and decrease time off task
Ways to improve executive function skills in students with ADHD … Organization of tasks and personal space, time management, task initiation and completion, impulse control, emotional self-regulation, and working memory
Practical Ideas and Strategies
Is it challenging, trying to keep your students with ADHD engaged and on task? Do interruptions, inattention, and constant repetition drain your instructional time? This seminar, presented by Melissa Davis, is designed to equip busy educators with practical, research-based strategies to more effectively support students with ADHD in school settings. Melissa offers insights grounded in her many years of working with challenging and disruptive behaviors. As a highly experienced teacher, a spouse of someone with ADHD, and a mother of a child with ADHD, Melissa brings a unique, well-rounded perspective to managing attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and organizational challenges in students. Gain easy-to-implement techniques designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing instruction. You will also receive a comprehensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with ready-made strategies, tools, and practical ideas you can use immediately.
Join Melissa for the day and leave feeling re-energized and equipped to create a more structured and supportive learning environment – ready to engage and empower even your most challenging students who have or may have ADHD.
BER - Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self Regulation (Grades PK-2) (Copy)
Designed Specifically for Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare Providers, Specialists Who Work with Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Decrease challenging behaviors while increasing self-regulation for all your students
How-to strategies to decrease attention-getting behaviors and increase motivation for students lacking readiness and self-awareness
Proven intervention strategies to address problematic behaviors when they occur and to proactively support behavior changes in the future
Extensive disruptive behaviors digital resource handbook filled with intervention and prevention strategies that work for grades PreK-2 students
Practical Ideas and Strategies
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher Melissa Davis understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can't control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention.
You'll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
BER - Helping Students Who Have or Might Have ADHD (Grades Pre-K - 12) (Copy)
Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades PreK-12: General Education Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Effective and proven intervention strategies for excessive fidgeting or restlessness, difficulty staying seated or quiet, and frequent interrupting
Specific, practical strategies to reduce disruptive and often repeated, attention-getting behaviors including roaming, blurting out, excessive talking, and inability to focus
Practical, proven tools to help you improve student behavior … Increase productivity and decrease time off task
Ways to improve executive function skills in students with ADHD … Organization of tasks and personal space, time management, task initiation and completion, impulse control, emotional self-regulation, and working memory
Practical Ideas and Strategies
Is it challenging, trying to keep your students with ADHD engaged and on task? Do interruptions, inattention, and constant repetition drain your instructional time? This seminar, presented by Melissa Davis, is designed to equip busy educators with practical, research-based strategies to more effectively support students with ADHD in school settings. Melissa offers insights grounded in her many years of working with challenging and disruptive behaviors. As a highly experienced teacher, a spouse of someone with ADHD, and a mother of a child with ADHD, Melissa brings a unique, well-rounded perspective to managing attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and organizational challenges in students. Gain easy-to-implement techniques designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing instruction. You will also receive a comprehensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with ready-made strategies, tools, and practical ideas you can use immediately.
Join Melissa for the day and leave feeling re-energized and equipped to create a more structured and supportive learning environment – ready to engage and empower even your most challenging students who have or may have ADHD.
BER - Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self Regulation (Grades PK-2) (Copy) (Copy)
Designed Specifically for Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare Providers, Specialists Who Work with Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Decrease challenging behaviors while increasing self-regulation for all your students
How-to strategies to decrease attention-getting behaviors and increase motivation for students lacking readiness and self-awareness
Proven intervention strategies to address problematic behaviors when they occur and to proactively support behavior changes in the future
Extensive disruptive behaviors digital resource handbook filled with intervention and prevention strategies that work for grades PreK-2 students
Practical Ideas and Strategies
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher Melissa Davis understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can't control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention.
You'll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
BER - Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self Regulation (Grades PK-2) (Copy)
Designed Specifically for Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare Providers, Specialists Who Work with Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Decrease challenging behaviors while increasing self-regulation for all your students
How-to strategies to decrease attention-getting behaviors and increase motivation for students lacking readiness and self-awareness
Proven intervention strategies to address problematic behaviors when they occur and to proactively support behavior changes in the future
Extensive disruptive behaviors digital resource handbook filled with intervention and prevention strategies that work for grades PreK-2 students
Practical Ideas and Strategies
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher Melissa Davis understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can't control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention.
You'll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
Two Day Behavior Conference
Challenging Behaviors? Let’s Build Your Toolbox!
Join Melissa Davis of Education Advisors and fellow expert presenters for BER’s Dealing Effectively with Challenging Behaviors, a two-day live online conference on December 9–10, 2026, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
Designed for K–12 educators, paraprofessionals, counselors, and administrators, this conference offers 21 practical sessions to help you understand behavior, prevent escalation, and support student success.
Melissa’s sessions will explore identifying behavior triggers, designing proactive classrooms, and recognizing students who are making positive choices. You’ll receive an extensive digital resource handbook with materials from every session—including those you don’t attend!
Ready for strategies you can put into practice right away?
2026 Keys to Quality Conference
Join us for the 2026 Keys to Quality Conference, a full-day professional development experience designed for early childhood educators. This year's theme, Connections, celebrates the relationships, collaborations, and shared learning that strengthen our profession and the early childhood community.
Story Time:
See ADHD through a dog's eyes! Enjoy a read-aloud, family activities, and a meet-and-greet with local author Melissa Davis.
Helping Students Who Have or May Have ADHD
Is it challenging, trying to keep your students with ADHD engaged and on task? Do interruptions, inattention, and constant repetition drain your instructional time? This seminar, presented by MELISSA DAVIS, is designed to equip busy educators with practical, research-based strategies to more effectively support students with ADHD in school settings. Melissa offers insights grounded in her many years of working with challenging and disruptive behaviors. As a highly experienced teacher, a spouse of someone with ADHD, and a mother of a child with ADHD, Melissa brings a unique, well-rounded perspective to managing attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and organizational challenges in students. Gain easy-to-implement techniques designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing instruction. You will also receive a comprehensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with ready-made strategies, tools, and practical ideas you can use immediately. Join Melissa for the day and leave feeling re-energized and equipped to create a more structured and supportive learning environment – ready to engage and empower even your most challenging students who have or may have ADHD.
NEA NH: ADHD in the Classroom: Practical Support Strategies from Day One (PK-8)
ADHD in your classroom? You’re not alone—and you’re not stuck.
Learn practical, ready-to-use strategies that work from day one to boost engagement, structure, and success.
Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self-Regulation (Grades PK-2)
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher MELISSA DAVIS understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can’t control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention. You’ll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
NEA NH- Diffusing the Difficult Child: Ways to Help Student Behaviors When They are Happening
Meltdown in progress? We’ve got you.
Learn exactly what to say and do in the moment to defuse behavior and regain control—without escalating the situation.
Helping Students Who Have or May Have ADHD
Is it challenging, trying to keep your students with ADHD engaged and on task? Do interruptions, inattention, and constant repetition drain your instructional time? This seminar, presented by MELISSA DAVIS, is designed to equip busy educators with practical, research-based strategies to more effectively support students with ADHD in school settings. Melissa offers insights grounded in her many years of working with challenging and disruptive behaviors. As a highly experienced teacher, a spouse of someone with ADHD, and a mother of a child with ADHD, Melissa brings a unique, well-rounded perspective to managing attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and organizational challenges in students. Gain easy-to-implement techniques designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing instruction. You will also receive a comprehensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with ready-made strategies, tools, and practical ideas you can use immediately. Join Melissa for the day and leave feeling re-energized and equipped to create a more structured and supportive learning environment – ready to engage and empower even your most challenging students who have or may have ADHD.
Book Launch
Join us for a special evening celebrating the launch of My Boy and His ADHD: A Dog’s Perspective—a heartfelt children’s book designed to help kids better understand their busy brains and feel confident in who they are.
Created by educator, consultant, and parent Melissa Davis, this story blends real-life insight with gentle, relatable storytelling to support children, families, and educators alike. Through the eyes of a loyal dog, readers are invited into a world of understanding, connection, and practical support.
Come celebrate this meaningful milestone with us—because every child deserves to feel seen, understood, and empowered.
Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self-Regulation (Grades PK-2)
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher MELISSA DAVIS understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can’t control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention. You’ll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self-Regulation (Grades PK-2)
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher MELISSA DAVIS understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can’t control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention. You’ll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self-Regulation (Grades PK-2)
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher MELISSA DAVIS understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute. Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can’t control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention. You’ll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
MTA: Early Career Educators Conference
Join Education Advisors for the following session: (Session 3)
Proactive Strategies for Addressing Behavior
Managing behavior can be one of the biggest challenges for new educators. This interactive 90-minute session helps early-career educators develop proactive strategies to prevent disruptions and build positive classroom environments. Participants will explore how small, intentional changes in structure, routines, and communication can make a big impact on student behavior and engagement. Through real-world examples and collaboration, educators will leave with practical tools they can implement immediately to create calm, consistent classrooms. Attendees will also receive access to a Padlet resource guide filled with visuals, templates, and strategies to support continued success.
NEA-NH: New & Aspiring Educator Conference on Zoom
Join Education Advisors for two different sessions that are being provided throughout the day.
Session 1:
A-05 Classroom Management Made Easy (PK-5)
This workshop is designed to empower teachers with essential tools to master the intricacies of classroom management. Let’s go beyond the conventional by not only addressing the management of challenging behaviors but also catering to those students who consistently exhibit positive behavior. Participants will gain valuable insights and practical strategies that can seamlessly integrate into their teaching toolbox, for immediate implementation upon return to the classroom. Classroom Management Made Easy is tailored to ensure your classroom operates like a well-oiled machine, optimizing efficiency and effectiveness. Join us to acquire the skills needed to cultivate a positive and conducive learning atmosphere for both you and your students.
Session 2:
B-05 Diffusing the Difficult Child: Ways to Help Student Behaviors When They are Happening (PK-5, ESP)
Feeling lost when a student is elevated or experiences a crisis? This workshop empowers educators with the tools they need to manage challenging behaviors and support students during difficult times. Join behavior expert Melissa Davis to discover effective intervention strategies, learn practical techniques to de-escalate stressful situations, and develop skills to proactively recognize potential behavioral issues before they escalate. Gain access to a valuable toolkit filled with resources and tips, and discover how to create your own supportive learning environment that fosters student well-being and positive behavior. This workshop is ideal for teachers of all grade levels, special education educators, paraprofessionals, and anyone who works with children in a classroom setting. Don't wait! Equip yourself with the skills to navigate challenging times and create a calmer, more positive learning environment for all your students. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE A-05.
Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self-Regulation (Grades PK-2) *ONLINE SEMINAR*
Designed Specifically for Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare Providers, Specialists Who Work with Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Decrease challenging behaviors while increasing self-regulation for all your students
How-to strategies to decrease attention-getting behaviors and increase motivation for students lacking readiness and self-awareness
Proven intervention strategies to address problematic behaviors when they occur and to proactively support behavior changes in the future
Extensive disruptive behaviors digital resource handbook filled with intervention and prevention strategies that work for grades PreK-2 students
Practical Ideas and Strategies
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher Melissa Davis understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute.
Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can't control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention.
You'll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self-Regulation (Grades PK-2) *ONLINE SEMINAR*
Designed specifically for Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare Providers, Specialists Who Work with Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Decrease challenging behaviors while increasing self-regulation for all your students
How-to strategies to decrease attention-getting behaviors and increase motivation for students lacking readiness and self-awareness
Proven intervention strategies to address problematic behaviors when they occur and to proactively support behavior changes in the future
Extensive disruptive behaviors digital resource handbook filled with intervention and prevention strategies that work for grades PreK-2 students
Practical Ideas and Strategies
This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher Melissa Davis understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute.
Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can't control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention.
You'll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.
Helping Students Who Have or May Have ADHD (Grades PK-12) *ONLINE SEMINAR*
Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades PreK-12: General Education Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Effective and proven intervention strategies for excessive fidgeting or restlessness, difficulty staying seated or quiet, and frequent interrupting
Specific, practical strategies to reduce disruptive and often repeated, attention-getting behaviors including roaming, blurting out, excessive talking, and inability to focus
Practical, proven tools to help you improve student behavior … Increase productivity and decrease time off task
Ways to improve executive function skills in students with ADHD … Organization of tasks and personal space, time management, task initiation and completion, impulse control, emotional self-regulation, and working memory
Practical Ideas and Strategies
Is it challenging, trying to keep your students with ADHD engaged and on task? Do interruptions, inattention, and constant repetition drain your instructional time? This seminar, presented by Melissa Davis, is designed to equip busy educators with practical, research-based strategies to more effectively support students with ADHD in school settings. Melissa offers insights grounded in her many years of working with challenging and disruptive behaviors.
As a highly experienced teacher, a spouse of someone with ADHD, and a mother of a child with ADHD, Melissa brings a unique, well-rounded perspective to managing attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and organizational challenges in students. Gain easy-to-implement techniques designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing instruction. You will also receive a comprehensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with ready-made strategies, tools, and practical ideas you can use immediately.
Join Melissa for the day and leave feeling re-energized and equipped to create a more structured and supportive learning environment – ready to engage and empower even your most challenging students who have or may have ADHD.
Helping Students Who Have or May Have ADHD (Grades PK-12) *ONLINE SEMINAR*
Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades PreK-12: General Education Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, and Administrators
Effective and proven intervention strategies for excessive fidgeting or restlessness, difficulty staying seated or quiet, and frequent interrupting
Specific, practical strategies to reduce disruptive and often repeated, attention-getting behaviors including roaming, blurting out, excessive talking, and inability to focus
Practical, proven tools to help you improve student behavior … Increase productivity and decrease time off task
Ways to improve executive function skills in students with ADHD … Organization of tasks and personal space, time management, task initiation and completion, impulse control, emotional self-regulation, and working memory
Practical Ideas and Strategies
Is it challenging, trying to keep your students with ADHD engaged and on task? Do interruptions, inattention, and constant repetition drain your instructional time? This seminar, presented by Melissa Davis, is designed to equip busy educators with practical, research-based strategies to more effectively support students with ADHD in school settings. Melissa offers insights grounded in her many years of working with challenging and disruptive behaviors.
As a highly experienced teacher, a spouse of someone with ADHD, and a mother of a child with ADHD, Melissa brings a unique, well-rounded perspective to managing attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and organizational challenges in students. Gain easy-to-implement techniques designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing instruction. You will also receive a comprehensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with ready-made strategies, tools, and practical ideas you can use immediately.
Join Melissa for the day and leave feeling re-energized and equipped to create a more structured and supportive learning environment – ready to engage and empower even your most challenging students who have or may have ADHD.
Fall Instructional Conference with NEA-NH
Classroom Management Made Easy (PK-5)
This workshop is designed to empower teachers with essential tools to master the intricacies of classroom management. Let’s go beyond the conventional by not only addressing the management of challenging behaviors but also catering to those students who consistently exhibit positive behavior. Participants will gain valuable insights and practical strategies that can seamlessly integrate into their teaching toolbox, for immediate implementation upon return to the classroom. Classroom Management Made Easy is tailored to ensure your classroom operates like a well-oiled machine, optimizing efficiency and effectiveness. Join us to acquire the skills needed to cultivate a positive and conducive learning atmosphere for both you and your students.
Diffusing the Difficult Child: Ways to Help Student Behaviors When They are Happening
Feeling lost when a student is elevated or experiences a crisis? This workshop empowers educators with the tools they need to manage challenging behaviors and support students during difficult times. Join behavior expert Melissa Davis to discover effective intervention strategies, learn practical techniques to de-escalate stressful situations, and develop skills to proactively recognize potential behavioral issues before they escalate. Gain access to a valuable toolkit filled with resources and tips, and discover how to create your own supportive learning environment that fosters student well-being and positive behavior. This workshop is ideal for teachers of all grade levels, special education educators, paraprofessionals, and anyone who works with children in a classroom setting. Don't wait! Equip yourself with the skills to navigate challenging times and create a calmer, more positive learning environment for all your students.
Helping Students Who Have or May Have ADHD: Practical Tools for the Classroom (PK-8)
This fast-paced, engaging session provides educators and paraprofessionals with practical, easy-to-try strategies to support students who struggle with attention, impulsivity, or hyperactivity. Led by experienced educator Melissa Davis—who has the perspective of a teacher, parent, and spouse of individuals with ADHD—this session focuses on proactive classroom techniques rooted in brain-based research. Learn 3–5 proactive strategies to support students with ADHD in improving attention, impulse control, and focus. Understand how to use visual tools and structured routines to help students navigate transitions and increase on-task behavior. Gain techniques to calmly respond to dysregulation and reduce escalation in classroom situations. Explore simple, brain-based strategies that foster self-regulation and build independence in students with executive functioning challenges. Attendees will receive access to a digital Padlet filled with downloadable tools, visuals, and ideas discussed during the talk.