Our Students Are Speaking…
Are We Listening?
Behavior Workshop
July 22 9am-3pm
Roanoke, VA
Testimonials
“[Your work was] probably the best received workshop with which I have been affiliated since I started this work. You have vital content and a caring and accessible way of sharing it.” Alison Dwier-Selden VaSCL May, 2024
Testimonals from VASCL workshop 2025:
“I love that you both were realistic and not judgmental when people brought things to your attention.”
“Great workshop!! Well worth making the sub plans!”
“AMAZING session. I learned so much, was validated in my practices and got new ideas. I loved your approach as combining theory with practice. Very helpful as I am coaching teachers and often have difficulty getting them to buy in and believe in the practices.”
“Excellent workshop! Well worth it! I loved the authentic, practical and real life examples that were shared. Engaging participants through the use of humor.”
Mission Statement: To foster acceptance, growth, and success by embracing and supporting children with difficult behaviors through patience, compassion, and positive guidance.
Our students are SPEAKING to us through their anger, silence, refusals, elopement, even absences, but are we LISTENING to what each of them are telling us? If you are looking for practical solutions to implement in your classroom or school tomorrow, please join us! We have done the boots-on-the-ground research and have collected the data for you- let us share practical tips for reaching the students whose message is that they only want to connect with us.
Our society is constantly evolving and changing and as teachers we are expected to handle more significant and serious behaviors. This presentation will empower the Virginia educator to feel confident to handle difficult situations as they arise.
Virginia Educators, educators everywhere, are feeling the evolution, and shall we say: sting?!, of our young learners. We have educated ourselves about trauma and competency for our students, now how do we practically put this to use in our educational settings everyday so we can meet them where they are and move forward with learning?
Get to
know us
Angie Davidson is on a mission to create and shape environments to allow struggling students to thrive in public school settings. Trained as an educator with a Masters in Education from Virginia Tech, she spent ten years as a teacher in Salem. In 2021, her love for struggling students drove her to begin a new position as an Intervention Specialist in Salem City. In 2023, she became a licensed BCBA and was hired as Salem City’s BCBA where she works with all six schools in the district. She has since completed workshops for the VaSCL, region VI YMCAs, VATLL/VASCD, and VDOE.
Stephanie Staples is currently a kindergarten teacher in Salem City Schools. As an educator in Title 1 schools for the entirety of her career, the transient populations that she has served have made her understand the necessity of flexibility, stability and the importance of compassion. She has a Bachelors of Art, and obtained her teaching license the same year and she has been teaching for 25 years with a variety of students with many different needs. Her passion lies with the children that seem to be the most challenging. She has since completed workshops for the VaSCL and VDOE. “I am the sunshine or I am the storm.”
