Respond Not React

Respond Not React:
Increasing Effectiveness in Kids Who Challenge Us

Kids who won’t listen or don’t want to work? Feel yourself getting burned out or frustrated? Join us for motivation and inspiration with practical, easy to use research-based strategies that will build your confidence and capacity in handling misbehavior. After a brief understanding of behavior and the brain, Angie will problem solve with you while teaching, modeling, and practicing techniques from many different behavior management philosophies, so you feel more empowered and effective! You'll add to your "tool box" to restore and rebuild relationships while feeling more effective and confident when responding to students with challenging behaviors.

Participants will:

• Develop a better understanding of the brain and factors impacting behavior
• Participate in hands-on experiential activities that can be utilized with people of all ages
• Walk away with numerous skills and strategies to proactively and positively impact relationships with others

Who Should Attend?
Teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, nurses, administrators, and other interested educators

Angie Ellsworth MS, LSW, LSC, began her career working with people with disabilities and has spent the past 18 years working with children ages 5-16 with academic, behavioral, and mental health challenges. She maintains her licenses while working as a behavior specialist at a Rochester elementary school and provides staff development district wide, as well as training and coaching around the state. She is trained in PBIS systems implementation and interventions, Love and Logic (R), Restorative Justice, Crisis Prevention and De-escalation, Why Try? resiliency education, and is an ENVoY (R) non-verbal behavior management coach and certified teacher. She embeds research on brain functioning and growth mindset into her approach and incorporates culturally responsive and trauma-sensitive experiential learning techniques for a hands-on experience. 

Registration Information:

Fee: $95 Metro ECSU Member; $195 Non-member (Fee includes lunch)

Please make checks payable to Metro ECSU and mail  to:

Metro ECSU
Attn: Angela Skrade
2 Pine Tree Drive, Suite 101
Arden Hills, MN 55112

If an invoice is required, an additional $10 fee will apply. 

Cancellation: You can cancel your own registration for an event before the cancellation deadline. (Please check the event information for specific cancellation details.) If the event has a fee, refunds are possible only if cancellation is prior to the deadline. If you do not attend and do not cancel prior to an event, you are still responsible for payment and will be billed.

Special Accommodations: Please alert BrightWorks 2-3 weeks prior to the workshop/event if you need special accommodations, including sign language interpreters. (BrightWorks requires a notice of 2 business days to cancel a sign language interpreter. If you fail to cancel, we reserve the right to bill your school/district for this expense.) Update your profile as needed. Special accommodations are not included with each registration, but are stored in your profile until you make changes.