Creating Schools for Healing, Learning, and Thriving A Four-Part Workshop Series @ UGA - Workshop Series

Creating Schools for Healing, Learning, and Thriving
A Four-Part Workshop Series @ UGA

2026 Dates: August 24, September 21, October 19 and/or November 9

This registration is for all 4 workshops!  See separate link to register for individual workshops.

Schedule: Registration starts at 8:30 a.m., sessions begin at 9:00 a.m. and conclude by 3:00 p.m.

Location: River's Crossing, 850 College Station Rd, Athens, GA 30602

Cost: $500 (includes all 4 workshops)

Description: This timely, empowering workshop series is for educators, education leaders, social workers, counselors, and anyone else who works with children and adolescents. Participants will learn about research-based teaching and leading practices to support the healing, well-being, and thriving of students and teachers in classrooms and schools. By centering important contemporary concepts such as trauma, poverty, bodies, and writing, this workshop series offers a creative and evidence-based approach to rethinking some of the fundamental ways we do school. In each workshop, participants will be invited to imagine, dream, and plan for classrooms and schools that truly fulfill shared visions of what children, teenagers, educators, and communities want and deserve. 

Dates:
August 24th: Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms and Schools: Creating Healing and Joyful Spaces for Students and Teachers 
September 21st: The Other Side of Poverty in Schools: Making School Work for Our Most Vulnerable Students 
October 19th: Education for Every Body: Evidence-Based, Healthy Practices for Teaching Age-Appropriate Content about Bodies, Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships  
November 9th: Teaching Writing Without a Script: Building Community, Belonging, and Positive Student Writer Identities 

Registration & Cancellation Deadline:  August 17, 2026

Cancellation and Refund Policy: All cancellations must be submitted via email to mbaer@uga.edu before the cancellation deadline in order to receive a full refund. Cancellations after the cancellation deadline are non-refundable. If cancellation is not made by the deadline, and you are not able to attend, you or your organization is still liable for payment.

Registration Transfer: If you have registered for an event but cannot attend, you may transfer your registration to another person. Simply email 48 hours before the event to mbaer@uga.edu with the registration information of the person who will attend.

Payment Information

Paying by check: If you choose to pay by check by submitting a purchase order, the amount due will adjust to $0.00 because you haven't actually paid anything yet. We will send an official invoice by email showing the amount due and the address to mail payment so that you can submit for payment. Checks should be made payable to “UGA”.

Paying by UGA General Ledger Journal Entry: If you are a UGA faculty or staff member and are paying by departmental journal entry, the amount due will adjust to $0.00 because you haven't actually paid anything yet. Please enter the name, phone number and email address of the person responsible for the funds (chartstring) you are using to pay for the registration fee so we can work with them to make the journal entry. Registration will not be confirmed until we have this information.

Invoice procedure for everyone paying by check/PO or UGA Journal Entry: Invoices will be sent a few days after the registration is confirmed. When you successfully complete the registration process, you will receive two emails from Melanie Baer (mbaer@uga.edu). One to let you know the registration has been received and a second when it is confirmed. A few days later, you will receive an email from Lori Robbins (lori.robbins@uga.edu) including a copy of the official invoice and the payment address. Please don’t remit payment until you receive the email from Lori Robbins as sometimes checks are sent to the wrong UGA office by mistake. This process often takes up to 5 business days to complete.

Paying by credit card: Credit cards sometimes aren’t processed until a few days after you submit the registration in Marketplace. Please make sure the card number is correct, the billing zip code matches the billing address for the card and the card isn’t expired, or expiring in the next few days. If the credit card doesn’t go through for some reason, you will have to re-submit the registration.