Featuring - Dr. Alison Roy, PhD. Clinical Psychologist
In-Person Sessions:
St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH
Co-Sponsored by NHTLLA, NHASEA and NHASP
Dr.
Roy is a licensed clinical psychologist and recognized trauma expert who has lived and worked across three continents. Based in Exeter, New Hampshire, she maintains a small private practice while focusing primarily on supporting public education systems in New Hampshire and beyond.
She partners with schools to provide professional development, consultation, and staff supervision that strengthen trauma awareness and promote a shared understanding of the connection between mental wellness and learning. Dr. Roy's work is grounded in the belief that safe, supportive, trauma-informed school environments are essential for both student success and staff well-being.
A Unique Learning Experience
This professional learning series goes beyond a one-day workshop
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Included With Registration:
✅ Three full-day in-person workshop
✅ Four one-hour virtual follow-up learning communities
✅ Phone and email support for administrators and teams
Who Should Attend?
This event is designed for:
- School Psychologists
- School Counselors
- Social Workers
- Administrators
- Special Educators
- General Education Teachers
- Attendance Teams
- Behavior Specialists
- Student Support Personnel
Series Outcomes
By participating in the workshop and follow-up sessions, attendees will:
- Understand the neuroscience of regulation, stress, trauma, and behavior in young children.
- Shift from a compliance-focused lens to a regulation and skill-building framework.
- Build school-wide systems that support student regulation and behavioral succesDevelop leadership practices that help staff respond effectively to challenging behaviors.
- Increase consistency across classrooms and support teams.
- Strengthen collaboration among educators, families, and care teams.
- Create action plans for sustainable implementation within their schools. s
In-Person, Full Day Sessions
September 21, 2026
January 22, 2027
May 14, 2027
Virtual Sessions (all are noon - 1:00 PM)
October 26 , 2026
November 30, 2026
March 29, 2027
April 18, 2027
Overview
This year-long learning community is designed for PreK–3 principals, assistant principals, and school leaders across New Hampshire who are seeking to strengthen their capacity to support student regulation, reduce challenging behaviors, and create school environments where students and adults can thrive.
Participants will engage in three full-day, in-person learning sessions paired with four virtual consultation and problem-solving meetings throughout the year. School leaders are encouraged to bring members of their care team (school counselors, social workers, school psychologists, behavior specialists, instructional coaches, special educators, and other key staff) to promote shared understanding and sustainable implementation.
The learning community will move beyond behavior management to focus on the underlying causes of student behavior, the role of relationships and regulation, systems-level practices, and leadership strategies that foster resilient and responsive school cultures.
Session Descriptions
Full Day 1: Understanding Behavior Through a Regulation Lens
Theme: What Is Behavior Really Telling Us?
Participants will explore how brain development, stress, trauma, attachment, and executive functioning influence student behavior. The session reframes challenging behavior as communication rather than willful defiance, helping educators distinguish unmet regulation needs from motivation issues. School teams will learn practical co-regulation strategies, examine the role of relationships in behavior change, reflect on current school practices, and develop an action plan to implement a regulation-supportive strategy before the first virtual consultation.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will: ● Understand the neurobiology of stress and regulation in young children. ● Explore the relationship between brain development, attachment, trauma, executive functioning, and behavior. ● Examine why traditional behavior approaches often fail students with significant regulation challenges. ● Learn how to distinguish between willful noncompliance and lagging self-regulation skills. ● Develop a common language for discussing behavior across staff teams.
Full Day 2: Building School-Wide Systems for Regulation and Support
Theme: Moving from Individual Interventions to Systems Change
Day 2 shifts the focus from understanding individual student behavior to creating school-wide systems that proactively support regulation for all students. Participants explore how leadership, school environments, and collaborative practices can reduce behavioral challenges while building a consistent, relationship-centered culture.
School teams learn how to create regulation-friendly learning environments through predictable routines, visual supports, sensory considerations, and classroom structures that help students feel safe and successful. They examine how Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) can be used to provide universal (Tier 1), targeted (Tier 2), and intensive (Tier 3) behavioral and regulation supports.
Learning Objectives
Participants will: ● Develop tiered approaches to supporting regulation. ● Identify environmental and systemic contributors to student behavior. ● Strengthen collaborative problem-solving structures. ● Improve consistency among staff responses.
Full Day 3: Leading Sustainable Change
Theme: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Can Regulate, Learn, and Belong
This session emphasizes that lasting improvements in student behavior require strong partnerships with families, equitable practices, and intentional leadership. Participants learn strategies for collaborating with caregivers through supportive, nonjudgmental conversations that frame behavior as communication and promote consistent regulation strategies across home and school.
Schools also examine their discipline practices through an equity lens, using data to identify patterns of disproportionality, reduce exclusionary responses, and ensure that every student receives fair, supportive, and relationship-centered interventions.
To sustain change, leaders explore how to embed regulation-focused practices into the fabric of the school through ongoing professional learning, effective onboarding for new staff, and continuous data collection and progress monitoring.
The session concludes by focusing on leadership practices that foster lasting culture change, including building psychological safety, modeling regulation as leaders, and maintaining a consistent focus on relationship-centered practices despite competing initiatives. Together, these strategies help schools create sustainable systems where students, staff, and families can thrive.
Learning Objectives
Participants will: ● Evaluate progress and outcomes. ● Strengthen family-school partnerships. ● Develop long-term sustainability plans. ● Establish leadership practices that maintain momentum.
Capstone Activity
Each team develops a: ● School Regulation and Behavior Action Plan ● Sustainability roadmap ● Leadership commitments for the following year
Registration Fees
$850
Early Bird: $750 - if registered on or before August 7, 2026
NOTE: Seating is limited.