"Change Your Language; Change Their Lives" & "Beyond Poverty" 

Please welcome Frank Kros, president of The Upside Down Organization, Director of the National-At-Risk Education Network (NAREN) and executive vice president of The Children's Guild, a multi-service children's organization.  He is a career child advocate, who has served as a childcare worker, child abuse investigator, chilren's home administrator, consultant, college professor, attorney, writer and speaker. 

Change Your Language, Change Their Lives:  What You Can Say
Differently Today to Transform the Tomorrow of Our Youth
Neuroscience discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of how the brains of our children learn and grow.  In particular, brain research reveals how the specific language used by adults who teach, mentor, counsel and parent youth has a much more profound effect on their development than previously realized.  

Beyon Poverty:  Brain-Inspired Ways to Understand and Respond to Poverty 
In this workshop participants will learn the specific damage that occurs in the developing brain that's been exposed to poverty, the impact of that damage in the classroom and the community, and the interventions that can be used to overcome povert's effects.