PBConnect 2025

Explore how gratitude can transform your personal well-being and professional practice in "The Power of Gratitude." This session will highlight the profound impact of cultivating gratitude on mental health, relationships, and overall happiness. Learn simple, practical strategies to incorporate gratitude into your daily life and classroom environment, fostering a positive and supportive atmosphere for students and colleagues alike. Discover how small acts of gratitude can build resilience, enhance engagement, and strengthen connections within your school community. Through interactive discussions and reflective activities, you’ll leave equipped with tools to make gratitude an integral part of your teaching and living. Join us to unlock the power of gratitude and create a ripple effect of positivity in and out of the classroom!

For those who need to laugh, reflect, recharge, feel grateful, or just get a break from everything education. It’s not always about school; it’s about being a person with purpose. Know that everything your mother said is TRUE. Come join me as we put value on living life the way our mothers taught us. Everyone will get their own homemade worksheet and a GOODIE. Bring a pencil.

Bringing motivation and inspiration to the classroom is not easy. In this interactive session focused on students’ social-emotional needs, Tina H. Boogren outlines the six levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs that educators can use to provide engaging instruction to students and provides sample strategies associated with the most essential levels. Walk away with new ideas and strategies to unlock the potential in every student and reignite your passion for teaching.