EPS Summer Extravaganza 2026

This session empowers educators to recognize themselves as the decisive element in the classroom climate, focusing on how their personal responses influence whether a student crisis is escalated or de-escalated and whether a child is humanized or dehumanized. Through a collaborative format designed for all key staff, participants will study the brain science of anger including the roles of the amygdala, the developing prefrontal cortex, and learn to reframe student resistance using the "Can’t vs. Won’t" model. Attendees will actively analyze the seven phases of the anger chain to match specific strategies to student behavior, practice delivering clear "alpha commands," and refine non-verbal communication techniques such as maintaining a supportive stance and a neutral expression. Ultimately, the session provides a comprehensive toolkit for unemotional enforcement of schoolwide policies and a library of social skills lessons to teach students how to interact appropriately with adults and manage their own emotional equilibrium.