Tutoring as a Safe Space: Creating Psychological Safety for Your Student

School on Wheels Literacy Leader Rebecca Glaser discusses psychological safety and its impact on learning. This topic is especially relevant as we – tutors, students, families, and communities – undergo the communal stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and are now exploring what it will mean to return to “normal”. During this webinar, she goes over what brain science tells us about safety and learning, short-term and long-term stress responses, and the power of tutoring. She also shares practical strategies to use with students and why they work, and tries a few of them out with attendees.

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About the presenter: Rebecca Glaser specializes in developing educational programs, especially aimed at building foundational learning skills for students experiencing poverty. She has 15 years of experience in education as a direct service provider, researcher, and social-emotional specialist. Previously, she developed and ran an initiative aimed at making social-emotional learning & trauma-informed care more engaging, accessible, and understandable for students and their families in Los Angeles County. She has her M.A. (2013) in Human Development & Psychology from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and B.A. (2007) from Oberlin College.