Presented by: Ms. Cecilia Verschelden
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Administrators
In-person: Large Auditorium, BG 20

Learning Goals
Participants will:

• Think about the ways in which we can increase certainty for students (or at least not add to uncertainty).
• Understand that students have “funds of knowledge” and that beginning with those strengths will help them recover bandwidth and increase the likelihood of academic success.
• Be introduced to several evidence-based interventions that show promise in helping students regain bandwidth.
• Reflect on the potential of the interventions for use in the classroom and in other settings with students.

Seminar Description
Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Capacity
The cognitive resources for learning of many of our students have been and are being diminished by the negative effects of persistent economic insecurity and discrimination and hostility against non-majority groups based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, and other aspects of difference – and, over the past three years, by the levels of uncertainty related to the pandemic and social unrest. Recognizing that these students are no different than their peers in terms of cognitive capacity, we can implement strategies and interventions – in and outside the classroom - that show promise in helping students regain the cognitive resources they need to learn and thrive in school.