Presentation Topics
Jennifer’s knowledge and expertise spans a wide range of topics within education. Jennifer presents keynotes, workshops, and courses online and in-person, locally, nationally, and internationally.
Topics include:
Educator Well-Being and Workplace Wellness
- Teacher, Take Care Book Talk: An overview of Jennifer’s newest book, a guide to well-being and workplace wellness for educators.
- Leadership for Well-Being and School Wellness: Connecting Research and Practice to Indigenous Perspectives and Knowledge: Explore the research related to leadership for wellness and best practices for educator well-being.
- Self-Care for Educators: An overview of strategies to protect our well-being in challenging times.
- Extinguishing Burnout: Examine the red flags of burnout and the strategies that can be effectively used to reduce these symptoms.
- Workplace Wellness: Exploring the factors related to psychological health and safety in the workplace.
- Leadership in High-Poverty Communities: What are the unique challenging of leading in economically disadvantaged schools, and how can we care for ourselves?
Early Years Math
- Strategies for Student Success: How to enhance student learning and understanding of challenging math concepts.
- Developing Mental Math Skills: Specific strategies to approach mental math across the grades.
- Problem Solving: Practical strategies for approaching this challenging area of the math curriculum.
- Exploring Specific Strands of the Math Curriculum: Explore topics such as number concepts, number operations, patterning, geometry, and measurement.
Early Years Science
- Creating a Student-Centred, Hands-On Science Program: Facilitating rich learning through hands-on activities.
- Using Inquiry as an Approach to Teaching and Learning Science: Starting with a meaningful question to explore science concepts.
- Developing Students’ Scientific Literacy Through:
- Science Process Skills
- Design Process
- Land-Based Learning
English Language Learning
- Building Language Skills Through the Content Areas: Using hands-on rich tasks from math, science, and social studies to build English language skills.
Jennifer is always up for a challenge, so if your team has other needs in professional development, she is open to ideas. Please contact her to discuss your needs and interests!
"Jennifer is extremely well organized and knows her topics exceptionally well. She is confident, energetic, engaging, and informative!"
Janice Matthewman
Vice Principal
"The entire presentation was absolutely amazing! The content was very informative and still much needed for our mental health; the technology was spot on, too. Having the slides to view while Dr. Lawson was talking was very helpful to follow along."
Sorority Presentation
February, 2023
"Do not miss an opportunity to hear Dr. Lawson speak about her recent publication, Teacher,
Take Care! Her passion and experience working with and for teachers shines through during her engaging, interactive, inspirational workshops. How many people would speak while balancing on a Bosu ball in order to demonstrate the importance of keeping our mental, physical, spiritual and emotional states in balance?
Not many, but Dr. Lawson does and it makes an impact!"
Sue Marlatt
Retired Principal