Maureen Healy

Maureen Healy Speaking Topics

• Using AI in our Stressful World

  Being able to leverage AI in the classroom to boost student engagement and learning can be a tremendous benefit. However, this advancement is only helpful if we equip our students with the capabilities to critically think, and ask questions, which support their academic and social advancement versus becoming a crutch to real learning.

  Invite Maureen to your community to build your:

  • AI literacy (as a teacher, professional, parent)
  • Spot the “red flags” of AI misuse
  • Teach students how to engage with AI, as well as build their skills of critical thinking and inquiry (specific strategies and best practices shared)
  • Understand the currency of character and authentic connections in the age of AI, as well as how it supports resiliency

  Envisioning a future with AI and the bumpers we need to put in place with students to keep them safe is of the utmost importance. Maureen has crafted policies for schools, provided training, and empowered adults, as well as students in how to engage with AI to enhance education, engagement and learning.

• The Wheel of Well-Being

  Science shows what boosts student well-being, as well as what reduces it immediately. Invite Maureen to learn the latest on how to foster well-being in your learning spaces and community, especially during the different ages and stages of development.

  Maureen expertly shares what the evidence-based wheel of well-being is, and how it applies to students, parents and teachers, as well as communities.

  Audience takeaways:

  • Understand the “spokes of the well-being wheel” for children and how to inflate each one, as well as repair flats when they happen.
  • Discover the latest science of well-being, especially related to elementary and middle school students, as well as how technology supports and/or harms well-being (research from neuroscience, behavioral economics, psychology, as examples).
  • Add (and subtract) strategies from your well-being toolbox as a teacher, parent and professional aimed to help nurture your student’s well-being for a lasting impact. (Classroom and home tools shared).

  Engage with Maureen to sharpen how you systematically build well-being into your classrooms, schools and parent/teacher enrichment programming. Despite our world being full of uncertainty and stress, we are also equipped with science-based tools to foster well-being even in the hardest times.

• Building Resilience: The Art & Science of Bouncing Back

  Students have challenges – whether academic or social, which will need to be faced and with support they can learn to develop a resilient mindset and strategies to strengthen and repair their resiliency when life throws obstacles at them.

  Audience takeaways:

  • Understand the big picture of childhood resilience from a scientific perspective – and what you can do.
  • Strategies shared to help teachers and parents build, strengthen and repair student resilience, especially in our high-tech world. (AI and technology discussed too).
  • Reframe resilience as a skill, which can be developed. It is not the result of great genes, but certain segments of the population tend to demonstrate higher resiliency – on average.
  • Connect the dots between resilience, emotional stability, well-being, and ultimately, flourishing.

  Maureen has written a science-based K-8 resiliency curriculum, which has been adopted by different learning institutions and supported to help students systematically build, repair and strengthen resilience especially in today’s distracted, stressful and anxious world.

• The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Students Become Strong Inside

  Understanding children’s emotional health and how to help children build emotional regulation and awareness is the focus of this program. Participants gain a completely fresh perspective, and tools to nurture emotional health in themselves, as well as their students and families.

  Audience takeaways: 

  • Clear definition of children’s emotional health.
  • Receive the “7 Essential Lessons” of how emotions work.
  • Science-based techniques that build emotional awareness, and self- regulation (for home or classroom). Different emotions like anger and sadness are considered, as well as strategies in effectively managing them at distinct stages. Latest in emotional and social development shared.
  • Scripts, activities and technologies that can support a child’s ability to express their emotions constructively are shared.

  An understanding of the “big picture” of emotional health and how it interconnects with resilience, wellbeing and student advancement.

• Helping Children Become Happier

  Our world has become increasingly stressed, uncertain and unhappy for people, including many children. Being able to step back and plant the proven seeds of happier life experiences in children not only helps them today, but guides them with agency on how to create happier life experiences in whatever situation they’re presented with. They can learn to bounce back from life’s difficulties and become happier step-by-step.

  Audience takeaways:

  • Ideas and science-backed activities to foster happier life experiences.
  • Insight into the practical wisdom that helps preschool, elementary, middle and high school students develop the mindset, as well as the habits that produce happier life experiences.
  • Clear interventions for students who present pessimistically the majority of the time, as well as perfectionistic and anxious students, as examples.
  • A fresh perspective on how to integrate happiness and resilience lessons into any classroom, as well as a sample semester of happiness courses based on the latest science of childhood happiness.