WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING…
Columbia University NYC
Summer Principals Academy
PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK
“Thank you for bringing Dr. Desautels. She was an incredible speaker and had so much to share. She was extremely well informed and tied the research
practical experience in a manner that almost never happens. She was an incredible find!”
“Grateful for the thoughtful conversation and fresh perspective on leading students and staff who have experienced trauma. Great workshop!!”
“The speaker was phenomenal. She was very knowledgeable and knew how to engage the audience. Bring her back!”
“This was one of the most productive Professional developments I have ever attended. Lori connected the science with the emotional piece so well. I’m stunned and inspired. Can we get her back in?”
“This session as excellent. The presenter was well-informed, and presented culturally relevant material that was applicable to NYC students. She was really great.
“Dr. Desautels is absolutely wonderful! There were many new connections that were made between last year’s trauma informed course and this one. I
appreciated her energy, authenticity, and understanding of the topic. She should teach a course here full time!”
“This was one of the most productive Professional developments I have ever attended. Lori connected the science with the emotional piece so well.
I’m stunned and inspired. Can we get her back in?”
“Dr. Lori was exceptionally engaging and thought-provoking. I would love to take a full course from her. I believe this work would be incredibly helpful
as a two-week course.”
“I love learning new terminology that helps me to understand better what to see and need to do.”
“I loved this workshop. The items that were discussed today made me reflect as a teacher, husband and parent.”
Former IN State Superintendent of Public Instruction shares....
Jennifer McCormick @suptdrmccormick, Former IN State Superintendent of Public Instruction shares:
Instead of SB 167/HB 1134, HB1182, HB 1072, HB 1252,…imagine if our state leaders were focused on such needs and opportunities. @desautels_phd does amazing work.
Indiana’s Future.
SEL & early childhood advocate shares....
Lizz Askine (She/Her) @MrsAskine
100 pages in and I can’t recommend this book enough! TY @desautels_phd for sharing your brilliance (& that of others) in this book.
Sweet Behavior, LLC shares....
Sweet Behavior, LLC shares.... This week, Sweet wants to highlight the work of one of our favorite Hoosiers: Dr. Lori L. Desautels! We cannot recommend her book Connections Over Compliance highly enough. Dr. Desautels pleads the case in this book of how we need to completely overhaul our thinking about "behavior" from an antiquated system of punishments and rewards to one that focuses on neuroscience instead. Best part about the book? It breaks down complex science stuff for everyone to understand!
So inspired to talk with Dr. Lori L. Desautels about how she is bringing nervous system education to kids and classrooms.
Kids learn about themselves.
Teachers learn about themselves (and understand behavior better).
She is kids and adults develop the ability to reflect on themselves, their behaviors, the state of their nervous system- all in a non-judgmental compassionate way!!!!
This feels magical and glittery and makes me want to dance!!!
“There is no more important work than the education of our children. However, with-in the current story of schooling, many of our children often feel inadequate as learners and far too many emerge from their school experience intellectually, emotionally and spiritually disconnected from their own abundant potential.
In, How May I Serve You? , Dr. Lori Desautels presents a vision for the education of our children that is radically different from the current landscape of educational reform, a landscape that currently is filled with standards, testing and the endless pursuit of rigor.
Dr. Desautels weaves a new story of education! This new story goes deeper and moves all educators and those that care about children, toward the heart and spirit of the children and youth in our care. Dr. Desautels speaks of teaching as service to those in our care and frames her new vision using a simple, yet powerful question :
How may I serve you?
The current story of schooling is rooted in scarcity and deficiency, where educators spend enormous amounts of time and energy finding, fixing and remediating the learner’s limitations. This story is deadening to the souls of our students as well as to the teachers who work with them. It is time for a new story!
Dr. Desautels story moves the current educational discussion toward the “felt sense” of caring and compassion for the students we as educators serve. She weaves a narrative that shifts the teacher’s role from transmitter of facts and information toward one that is of service to his or her students. It is a story rooted in compassion and service. It is a story that takes one to the heart of what it is to teach.
Dr. Desautels centers the “felt sense” of caring relations as the foundation for the activity of teaching and learning. As we shift the relation of teaching toward serving our students needs, as we engage students in conversations, we learn about who they are, their interests and their talents. As teachers make this shift they can gain critical information from their students and can better build instruction that leads toward individual progress and toward our students aspirations.
The shift that Dr. Desautels writes about shares a vision of what is possible for the children and youth we serve in schools. It moves the current debate from standards and testing toward the heart and soul of the students we teach.
To be radical means simply to go to the core- to the deepest and most sustaining part of life.
Dr. Desautels book takes us to that place. It puts us on a path toward a new story of learning and schooling because it reconnects us to the deepest roots of what it means to be fully human. It is a generative new story of schooling that if followed will lead us to create schools that serve all our students well. “
Michael McKnight
“You are such an inspiration to me as an educator, administrator and as a parent. If I knew then what I know now…Also, a true comment from the elementary physical education teacher who is retiring this year. He said: “Tammie, where was she 35 years ago when I needed this the most? I had to wait this long to learn how to do it right”.
