Throughout this year, EA and some of our partner organizations and associations will host free educational sessions for EA parents. Please take a look below for details on upcoming events this school year.
Back-To-School Momentum: Prepping Children of All Ages for the Challenges (& Successes) of a New School Year
When: Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024; 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar (pre-registration required; see Zoom Guide to register)
Presenter: Lynn Lyons, Psychotherapist & Author
Host: ISACS Parent Series presented by ADVIS
Optional Supplemental Materials: 2024-25 ISACS Parent Series Bookshop
We all benefit from knowing effective, active, and creative strategies to confront worry and anxiety. Families need clear direction on HOW to respond when anxiety or worry flares up. Parents are an instrumental part of the process and benefit greatly by collaborating directly with the school. Based on current research and years of clinical experience, learn a strategic approach based on skill-building, with emphasis on prevention that benefits students, their families, and educators. There is great opportunity to learn what works and what doesn't. What are the mistakes we continue to make? How can we take advantage of a new school year's positivity? What are the myths we need to bust, the paradigms we need to shift, and the skills we must build? This webinar is for parents and caregivers of grades 1-12. Watch presenter Lynn Lyon's introductory video.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Sexuality & Identity
When: Friday, Oct. 18, 2024; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on sexuality and identity.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Sexuality & Identity
When: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on sexuality and identity.
Learn Together: A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching
When: Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024; 8:30 a.m. OR 7 p.m.
Where: Sherrerd Board Room (8:30 a.m.) or Zoom Webinar (7 p.m.)
Host: EA's Center for Teaching and Learning & the EAPA
Supplemental Materials: A Parent's Guide to Power Teaching
Learn alongside our teachers! While EA faculty read Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning, we invite parents to discuss the book’s companion text, A Parent’s Guide to Powerful Teaching. Join us for a book discussion on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 8:30 a.m. in the Sherrerd Board Room or 7 p.m. on Zoom. Together, we can support effective learning strategies and create a cohesive support system for our students. Register now.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Social Media
When: Friday, Nov. 15, 2024; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp! SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on social media.
Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic—And What We Can Do About It
When: Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024; 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar (pre-registration required; see Zoom Guide to register)
Presenter: Jennifer Wallace, Author & Journalist
Host: ISACS Parent Series presented by ADVIS
Optional Supplemental Materials: 2024-25 ISACS Parent Series Bookshop
Join award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Wallace as she explores the roots of toxic achievement pressure and gives a practical framework for how parents, educators, and communities can fight back. This session is for caregivers and parents of school-aged children—primarily adolescents and teens—educators, school counselors, and school administrators.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Social Media
When: Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on social media.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Addictions
When: Friday, Dec. 6, 2024; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on addictions.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Addictions
When: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on addictions.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
When: Friday, Jan. 10, 2025; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
When: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
How to Raise Socially Skilled Tweens & Teens Who Can Navigate Friendship Challenges
When: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025; 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar (pre-registration required; see Zoom Guide to register)
Presenter: Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC & Author
Host: ISACS Parent Series presented by ADVIS
Optional Supplemental Materials: 2024-25 ISACS Parent Series Bookshop
Tweens and teens need to feel a sense of belonging in order to take social and academic risks, manage social setbacks, cope with intense emotions, and make smart choices online and offline. Fagell will share practical ways to boost your child’s social skills, scaffold risk-taking at an age when they fear embarrassment, and help them find their place in the pack. While the strategies apply to all kids, she will concentrate most on kids in grades 3-10.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Mental Health
When: Friday, Feb. 7, 2025; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on mental health.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Mental Health
When: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on mental health.
Squish the Peas: Life Lessons from Toddlers on How to Live a Happier, Healthier Life
When: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025; 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar (pre-registration required; see Zoom Guide to register)
Presenter: Hasan Merali, MD, MPH
Host: ISACS Parent Series presented by ADVIS
Optional Supplemental Materials: 2024-25 ISACS Parent Series Bookshop
Toddlers hold the secrets to having more fun and living a fulfilling life. These are secrets we once knew and ones that a Harvard-trained physician can help us rediscover. Terrible twos, temper tantrums, and grocery store meltdowns are usually the first things that come to mind when people think of toddlers. But Merali has long thought toddlers are among the best people in our society and adults could do well to learn from them. Toddlers excel when it comes to kindness, laughter, play, teamwork, risk-taking, and so many other habits that could objectively improve our lives as adults if we were to act a bit more like them. Join us as we go through the important life lessons we can learn from our youngest teachers and leave with simple, actionable steps to improve the well-being of the entire family. This webinar is for those who parent students of all ages as well as all non-parents.
Raise Your Children & Adolescents to be Authentically Successful, Emotionally Healthy & Prepared to Thrive
When: Tuesday, March 11, 2025; 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar (pre-registration required; see Zoom Guide to register)
Presenter: Ken Ginsburg, MD, MSEd
Host: ISACS Parent Series presented by ADVIS
Optional Supplemental Materials: 2024-25 ISACS Parent Series Bookshop
Parents are critically important in the lives of adolescents. The security of your love allows young people to launch successfully into an uncertain future. Your high expectations hold them accountable, keep them safe, and shape them to become their best selves. The best way to protect your child is to prepare them to manage life’s complexities while establishing clear boundaries. Open communication about emotional wellness and distress positions you to support them to be emotionally intelligent and navigate life’s curveballs. Modeling self-care and healthy stress management strategies teaches them to get through tough times. Listen to remind yourself how much you matter. If you have younger children, now is the time to invest in building wise, strong children who will thrive through adolescence and beyond.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Boundaries
When: Friday, March 14, 2025; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on boundaries.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Boundaries
When: Wednesday, March 19, 2025; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on boundaries.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Drugs & Alcohol
When: Friday, April 4, 2025; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on drugs and alcohol.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Drugs & Alcohol
When: Wednesday, April 9, 2025; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on drugs and alcohol.
Planning for Summers of Growth & Joy
When: Wednesday, April 9, 2025; 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar (pre-registration required; see Zoom Guide to register)
Presenter: Michael Thompson, Clinical Psychologist, Author & School Consultant
Host: ISACS Parent Series presented by ADVIS
Optional Supplemental Materials: 2024-25 ISACS Parent Series Bookshop
For most parents, planning a summer for their children is a complex mix of their own work demands, requests to visit extended family, the ages, temperaments and interests of their children, pressure on children from sports coaches, and the goals parents have for summer family time. For children, summer is a time to grow and develop in new ways. Thompson will address the conflicting pressures on summer planning, while suggesting that goals for summer should include relief from the stress and anxiety of school, opportunities to make new friends in a different context, and chances to take (supervised) risks and master new skills.
Parenting Adult Coffee: Mental Health
When: Friday, May 2, 2025; 9:30-11 a.m. ET
Where: 80 W Lancaster Avenue, Suite 220, Devon, PA 19333
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Morning sessions will be held in person at the SpeakUp! office. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on mental health.
Virtual Parenting Adult Coffee: Mental Health
When: Wednesday, May 7, 2025; 7-8:15 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Webinar
Host: Parenting Adult Coffee Series presented by SpeakUp!
SpeakUp! is hosting a series of Parenting Adult Coffees throughout the school year. Evening sessions are held virtually on Zoom. These gatherings are designed to dive deeper into topics where more guidance and support are needed and requested by our parenting adult participants. This session will focus on mental health.