Surviving Stranger Things is an interactive workshop designed to help teachers manage challenging classroom behaviors with trauma-informed strategies. Participants learn to see misbehavior as communication and respond empathetically, using alternatives to exclusion and punishment. The workshop offers practical tools for building strong relationships, fostering self-regulation, and creating a proactive classroom environment. Attendees leave with over a dozen actionable strategies, such as the 2x2x3 method for noticing students, structuring explicit coaching conversations, mirroring body language, feigning boredom, and using powerful scripts like Feel-Felt-Found and I don’t want…I do want. This session is ideal for teachers, deans, counselors, and administrators seeking practical, unique solutions for today’s unusual classroom behaviors. The presenter, Keith, is a seasoned middle school English and math teacher, principal, and author of two ASCD books, including The Instructional Coaching Handbook.
