Free TeachMeet on September 23: Navigating the Election
Build the relationships, leadership practices, and schoolwide systems that help students and adults thrive.
Join IFSEL for two days of experiential learning, reflection, and practical strategies designed for school administrators and leadership teams. Explore ways to strengthen staff trust and wellbeing, respond to challenging situations, and build a more connected school community.
Work through real challenges from schools. Leave with practical tools, insights from fellow leaders, and structures to support a thriving school community.
School culture takes shape in everyday interactions and in the systems leaders design to support them. How staff collaborate, how students experience belonging, how families engage, and how a school responds when challenges arise all contribute to the conditions for learning and growth.
This workshop offers space to step back, reflect on your school’s strengths and challenges, and identify practical next steps. Together, we’ll explore how to connect your school’s vision with the leadership practices, relationships, and routines that bring it to life.
Through practical, experiential sessions, you will:
IFSEL’s approach recognizes that a thriving school depends on the wellbeing and connectedness of the whole community.
Grounded in IFSEL’s Whole-Community Framework, this workshop brings together experiential learning, reflective practices, practical strategies, and examples from schools. You’ll examine the connections among adult wellbeing, student experience, inclusive practices, and schoolwide systems—and consider how to strengthen those connections in your own setting.
Throughout the two days, you’ll have opportunities to learn with fellow leaders, work through real school challenges, and make space for your own reflection and renewal.
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To help you get started on your search, IFSEL has compiled a list several hotels near the workshop. Please note that the hotels listed here are for reference only, and inclusion on this document does not represent a formal endorsement by IFSEL.
We recommend registrants book fully-refundable travel and accommodation. IFSEL is not liable for any costs incurred.
Registration fees will be refunded at 50% of the registration ticket price paid, less the $50 refund processing cost, if requested in writing more than two-weeks prior to the start of the course. From two weeks prior to the start of the course until the day before the course begins, refunds requested in writing will be granted a credit for the full value of their registration ticket price. No refunds or credits are available on or after the start date of the course. To begin the cancellation process, please email us at admin@instituteforsel.net.
In exceptional circumstances, IFSEL may need to cancel this event. If this occurs, all registered participants will receive a full refund of the event registration fee. Please note that IFSEL is not responsible for any travel, accommodation, or related expenses incurred by participants. We therefore strongly recommend booking refundable travel and accommodation arrangements whenever possible.
IFSEL is committed to ensuring equitable access to our programs for all educators, with the belief that financial barriers should not limit opportunities for growth and development. Through our Equity Access Fund, we aim to make our programs accessible to those seeking financial support.
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If I have done an IFSEL online training, will I get something out of an in-person workshop?
Our in-person workshops offer comprehensive, experiential, intentionally-designed SEL professional development. The depth and richness of the overall experience is different from our shorter online courses. Some elements of our online courses are included in the Workshop content.
A sample schedule can be found here.
I am an educational consultant, can I come?
Consultants are welcome to join one of our Workshops. However, consultants, as well as all attendees, must comply with our Materials Use Policy.
We would like to provide this training for our entity faculty, do you have options for private sessions?
Yes, IFSEL provides SEL Professional Development for schools, districts, and other organizations. More information on IFSEL’s consulting, online, and in-person training can be found here.
Do you offer financial aid?
Yes, IFSEL is committed to empowering all educators to attend our Workshops and we have Financial Aid programs to support this vision. Applications for financial aid can be made here. Notification of Financial Aid awards will occur on a rolling basis.
Do you offer a group discount?
Yes. SEL implementation is always better when done as a team. We encourage organizations to send a group of participants and offer a discount for groups of 3 or more.
Do you provide hotel recommendations?
IFSEL provides a list of hotels near each Workshop venue. However, the hotels listed here are for reference only, and inclusion does not represent a formal endorsement by IFSEL.
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Do you provide shuttles from public transportation?
Unfortunately, we do not offer transportation to our Workshops.
Whether using your own car, Uber, or a taxi, IFSEL will help facilitate carpools: look for a noticeboard near the registration table for participants to connect with one another.
What are your health policies?
IFSEL will comply with all national, local, and venue COVID Regulations and these will be monitored regularly for updates.
Do you provide Continuing Education credits?
Yes, participants at our Whole Community Approach Workshops programs are eligible for 1.0 CEU credits from Dominican University.
Please note that Dominican University charges a fee of $55 per CEU unit. At this time, IFSEL is not able to provide credits for clinical counseling.
If you need a CEU Registration Form please email admin@instituteforsel.net
Do you provide CEUs for counselors?
No, unfortunately, we are unable to offer CEUs for counselors.
My organization requires a certificate of completion, can you provide one?
Yes, certificates of completion will be provided after the completion of the Institute.
A two-day IFSEL workshop for preK–12 school leaders. Strengthen school culture, staff wellbeing, and belonging with practical tools and leadership strategies.
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