Calling all yoga enthusiasts! Regardless of whether you’re a newbie or veteran, join yoga teacher, Azra Chughtai, RYT, for a warm-up with breathwork, hatha yoga (gentle stretching exercises to wake up the body), and, of course, meditation for relaxation and de-stressing. Beginner friendly!

TAKEAWAYS:
Recharge: Energizing and Stress Relief

Step into a calm, supportive space designed to help you recharge. This room includes tactile objects and sensory-friendly features to promote relaxation, focus, and wellbeing. Whether you need a moment of quiet or grounding sensory input, this space is open to all attendees.

Step into a calm, supportive space designed to help you recharge. This room includes tactile objects and sensory-friendly features to promote relaxation, focus, and wellbeing. Whether you need a moment of quiet or grounding sensory input, this space is open to all attendees.

Are grading, data analysis, and material prep consuming your nights and weekends? This hands-on workshop is your first step toward a sustainable teaching career. We will build a personal automation toolkit using simple offline Python scripts. Learn to auto grade quizzes, instantly graph lab data, and generate differentiated worksheets, reclaiming hours each week. Reinvest this precious time into what matters most: enhancing instruction through targeted student interventions, crafting engaging, phenomena-based lessons, and fostering a more dynamic classroom culture that benefits all learners. This session focuses exclusively on educator well-being, providing practical strategies to reduce burnout by automating tedious tasks. Leave with a USB stick containing your new digital assistant and a practical plan to regain time for what matters most. No prior coding experience required.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn to use offline Python scripts to automate grading and data tasks, ensuring student privacy while reclaiming time to reduce burnout and reinvest in student instruction. They will leave with a digital toolkit and the confidence to implement these tools or strategies immediately.

SPEAKERS:
Nitindra Chowdary Pavuluri

A calm retreat from the energy of the conference – a place to pause, breathe, and reset before rejoining the action.

A calm retreat from the energy of the conference – a place to pause, breathe, and reset before rejoining the action.

In today’s fast-paced world, chronic stress is common, but your mind and body can pay a high price. Learn to recognize overwhelming stress—and what you can do about it. Most importantly, learn how to use the power of your senses to relieve stress on the spot and stay calm, productive, and focused.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with tips on how to manage stress.

SPEAKERS:
Michelle Phillips

Science teachers juggle endless demands such as labs, grading, and emotional challenges that can leave their nervous systems in constant overdrive. This interactive session explores the science of calm through simple, evidence-based chair yoga and breathwork routines designed for the classroom and beyond. Participants will learn how breathing patterns and gentle movement activated the parasympathetic nervous system, reduce cortisol, and restore focus. No mats or special clothing required, just your breath and a chair. Educators will experience accessible techniques to pause, release tension, and reset between classes. They will also craft personal “I Choose To” statements to build sustainable wellness habits and receive a printable “Calm Cycle” routine for daily use. These practices foster calm and balance in teachers and students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will leave with a neuroscience-informed “Calm Cycle” of chair yoga and breathwork practices that can be applied during classes or shared with students to support focus, emotional regulation, and sustained joy in alignment with NGSS Science for All.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Ann Ng

Calling all yoga enthusiasts! Regardless of whether you’re a newbie or veteran, join yoga teacher, Azra Chughtai, RYT, for a warm-up with breathwork, hatha yoga (gentle stretching exercises to wake up the body), and, of course, meditation for relaxation and de-stressing. Beginner friendly!

TAKEAWAYS:
Recharge: Energizing and Stress Relief

This session will encourage teachers to take stock of their current practices and context. We will then consider strategies for building and cultivating your resilience toolbox so you can work toward being healthier and more effective for yourself, your family, and your students.

TAKEAWAYS:
You will consider how to cultivate competence, confidence, and connection, stay grounded, and set boundaries in your context.

SPEAKERS:
Brooke Whitworth

Step into a calm, supportive space designed to help you recharge. This room includes tactile objects and sensory-friendly features to promote relaxation, focus, and wellbeing. Whether you need a moment of quiet or grounding sensory input, this space is open to all attendees.

Step into a calm, supportive space designed to help you recharge. This room includes tactile objects and sensory-friendly features to promote relaxation, focus, and wellbeing. Whether you need a moment of quiet or grounding sensory input, this space is open to all attendees.

A calm retreat from the energy of the conference – a place to pause, breathe, and reset before rejoining the action.

A calm retreat from the energy of the conference – a place to pause, breathe, and reset before rejoining the action.

While it may seem like there’s nothing you can do about stress at work and home, there are steps you can take to relieve the pressure and regain control. Stress wreaks havoc on your emotional equilibrium, as well as your physical health. It narrows your ability to think clearly, function effectively.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with tips on how to relieve pressure and regain control.

SPEAKERS:
Michelle Phillips

In today's high-pressure environment, mental and emotional health often takes a backseat to academic success, overshadowing the essential need for wellness. This situation can leave educators feeling overwhelmed. To help address this issue, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has developed Wellness Workshops aimed at supporting educators, enabling them to better care for themselves and avoid burnout, alongside the youth they teach. These workshops leverage the healing power of nature and the importance of open, constructive dialogue to build trust within the education space. In this session, you will hear about the Wellness Workshop’s core strategies used to foster trust and build stronger relationships between Museums, educators, and youth including nature-based mindfulness exercises. By fostering connection and reflection, Museums can help educators become more effective advocates for their own and their students overall well-being.

TAKEAWAYS:
Introduce communication techniques that facilitate judgment-free conversations between teachers and students, allowing for empowerment and trust building, and utilize available green space to provide a calming, restorative space where educators can reconnect with themselves and each other.

SPEAKERS:
Molly Porter

Step into a calm, supportive space designed to help you recharge. This room includes tactile objects and sensory-friendly features to promote relaxation, focus, and wellbeing. Whether you need a moment of quiet or grounding sensory input, this space is open to all attendees.

Step into a calm, supportive space designed to help you recharge. This room includes tactile objects and sensory-friendly features to promote relaxation, focus, and wellbeing. Whether you need a moment of quiet or grounding sensory input, this space is open to all attendees.

A calm retreat from the energy of the conference – a place to pause, breathe, and reset before rejoining the action.

A calm retreat from the energy of the conference – a place to pause, breathe, and reset before rejoining the action.