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Webinars are always free to ISCA members. The fee for non ISCA members is $30 per webinar. A few events are restricted to ISCA Members-Only as a Membership Benefit. To Join ISCA, click here.
Recordings are always available to ISCA Members to re-watch at a later date.
UPcoming Webinars
Introducing the ISCA Student Standards Learning Progression: Developing Essential Life Skills from Pre-K- Grade 12
September 18, 2024 @ 9:00-10:00AM UTC
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Speakers:
Brooke Fezler
Brooke Fezler, M.A. in Counseling, is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the International School Counselor Association (ISCA), drawing upon her extensive experience in international school counseling. Since 2005, she has worked in schools across five countries, making a significant impact on student success through effective coordination of school-wide initiatives and promotion of comprehensive counseling programs. Brooke is also an adjunct professor at Lehigh University, sharing her expertise with aspiring counselors. As a co-developer of the International Model for School Counseling Programs in 2011 and 2022, she has contributed to advancing the field. Her dedication to education and multifaceted involvement as a Co-Founder, Director, adjunct professor, and author make her an invaluable asset to ISCA and the international school counseling community.
Kristine Mizzone
Kristine Mizzone is the Learning and Development Coordinator for the International School Counselor Association (ISCA). She is also an educational consultant supporting schools in the areas of social emotional learning (SEL) and organizational leadership. She has served as both a teacher and school leader for nearly two decades in US public schools and private international schools. Most recently, Kristine served as the Director of Learning at Benjamin Franklin International School in Barcelona, Spain. Prior to that, she was the Curriculum and Professional Learning Coordinator at the International School of Beijing, China. She currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand.
Back to Basics: How Understanding 'Likeness Can Help us do SEL, Mental Health, and Inclusive Practices Better
October 24, 2024 @ 3:00-4:00pm UTC
Register NowIronically, we can sometimes get so busy designing great programs and implementing the solutions we have created that it is possible to forget to go back to the basics of WHY we are doing these things. What is it each child needs no matter their external diversity? Sometimes we need to revisit our basic reasons for doing what we do and remember WHY SEL is so critical to a child's current learning and future well-being.
Speaker: Ruth E. VanReken
Ruth E. VanReken grew up globally and has worked for 40 years with issues related to growing up among many cultural worlds for those doing it, their parents, educators and others working with them. She co-founded Families in Global Transition (FIGT.org) in 1998 and co-authored Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, 3rd ed. She received an honorary Litt.D in 2019 for her life's work in this field.
SEL by Design: A Progression of Skills for Pre-K through Grade 12
October 29, 2024 @ 9:00-10:00AM UTC
Register NowSocial Emotional Learning (SEL) holds the promise of establishing the groundwork for lifelong well-being and success—if implemented effectively. This is a collective responsibility, involving learners, teachers, counselors, school leaders, and caregivers, to cultivate competency in skills across social-emotional, global perspective and identity development, academic, and career domains. Are we all operating from the same understanding of what these skills are? And what do these skills look like across different developmental levels from Pre-K through Grade 12?
Join us to get your hands, minds and hearts around the ISCA Student Standards, the most comprehensive and precisely defined set of standards in SEL. These standards, aligned with the CASEL framework, provide specific learning outcomes to the unique contexts of international schools.
Get a behind the scenes look at a learning progression that supports schools in placing SEL at the core of their mission, by design.
Speakers:
Brooke Fezler
Brooke Fezler, M.A. in Counseling, is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the International School Counselor Association (ISCA), drawing upon her extensive experience in international school counseling. Since 2005, she has worked in schools across five countries, making a significant impact on student success through effective coordination of school-wide initiatives and promotion of comprehensive counseling programs. Brooke is also an adjunct professor at Lehigh University, sharing her expertise with aspiring counselors. As a co-developer of the International Model for School Counseling Programs in 2011 and 2022, she has contributed to advancing the field. Her dedication to education and multifaceted involvement as a Co-Founder, Director, adjunct professor, and author make her an invaluable asset to ISCA and the international school counseling community.
Kristine Mizzone
Kristine Mizzone is the Learning and Development Coordinator for the International School Counselor Association (ISCA). She is also an educational consultant supporting schools in the areas of social emotional learning (SEL) and organizational leadership. She has served as both a teacher and school leader for nearly two decades in US public schools and private international schools. Most recently, Kristine served as the Director of Learning at Benjamin Franklin International School in Barcelona, Spain. Prior to that, she was the Curriculum and Professional Learning Coordinator at the International School of Beijing, China. She currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand.
Moving from the Talk to the Walk: Designing for Equity
November 7, 2024 @ 1:00-2:00pm UTC
Equity by design is an approach to addressing differences in experiences and moving towards meaningful, systems-level change in our schools. In this session, we will explore the principles of Equity by Design as a lens in day to day practice and in solving community challenges. As a part of this session, be ready to share an equity challenge that is impacting your community.
You will leave with both a framework and an initial set of tools to practice Equity by Design principles in your school community’s context to uncover and solve DEI challenges.
Speaker: Jacinta Williams
Jacinta is a social justice and racial equity practitioner with over 20 years of experience in public, independent, and international education contexts. As a former teacher, instructional coach, a DEI leader consultant, she brings a wealth of context and experience with engaging individuals, teams, and schools in strategically addressing challenging and complex issues that inhibit schools from operationalizing equity and integrating equity into programming, systems, policies, and processes. She now has the honor to work with internatinoal schools and global companies who are serious about ensuring optimal conditions for all, especially students and adults on the margins, to thrive.
Help! My Kid Won’t Go to School!
November 27, 2024 @ 2:00-3:00pm UTC
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In this one-hour interactive webinar, participants will learn about school refusal and actively engage, share, and connect with counselors from around the globe on this topic. They will walk away with practical scripts to use when working with international school students and their families.
Secondly, we will host a 90-minute book club talk. This event presents a unique learning opportunity for counselors to share their stories and discuss their key takeaways from the book Help! My Kid Won’t Go to School. It fosters an interactive and engaging discussion to enhance participant knowledge and understanding of school refusal.
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Katie Fowle
Katie Fowle, M.Ed, is a dyslexia specialist and co-founder of Global Village Tutors. She’s empowered hundreds of students through high-impact tutoring and social-emotional skill-building. Despite her professional success, Katie struggled as a mom when her daughter refused to get out of bed to go to school. Katie shares her story to encourage parents and inform educators.
Sharoya Ham
Sharoya Ham, M.Ed, is an international parent coach and founder of Embrace Behavior Change. She has a Master's in Special Education with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis. Sharoya has lived in seven countries and helped families overcome school refusal across five continents, demonstrating the global applicability of her methods
Online Safety: ICMEC Child Protection Workshop
December 4, 2024 @ 9:00-10:30am UTC
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Speaker: Debbie Downes
In August 2022, Debbie Downes joined The International Centre of Missing and Exploited Children as the Director of Global School Initiatives. In this role, she develops and provides child protection training, support, and resources to schools around the world. She has been supporting ICMEC’s work as a regional trainer since July 2020.
Debbie has worked in international education for 18 years, first as an elementary teacher, then as school principal, and then as Accreditation and Child Protection Lead for Quality Schools International. She developed and revised handbooks, policies, and resources to support child protection efforts at a group of 36 international schools. She also supported schools with on-site and virtual professional development.
Debbie’s background in child protection includes an MSW from the University of California at Berkeley and several years of experience working in the court unit of Children and Family Services in Contra Costa County, California. Debbie’s overseas career began with 3 years as a health education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Kolda, Senegal. She has since lived with her husband, 2 children, and 2 rescue dogs in Thailand, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Slovenia, Belarus, and her current location of Tbilisi, Georgia.
Empowered Futures: Strengthening Your Students Mental Health through Clubs
January 22, 2025 @ 12:00-1:00pm UTC
Register NowThis session will provide attendees with practical tools to cultivate inclusive school cultures around mental health through student empowerment clubs. Participants will be introduced to auxiliary resources such as student and staff awareness into action activities, and offer opportunities to engage in activities that can be brought into their classrooms. Participants will learn how utilizing student voice can promote meaningful conversations around the topic of mental health, reduce stigma, and promote help-seeking as an early identification and prevention strategy.
Speakers:
Shantal Saldana
Shantal Saldana is the Manager of School Outreach at Erika's Lighthouse. For over 12 years, Shantal has worked towards the wellbeing of families and their children of all ages. Shantal has a masters degree from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and is passionate about ending stigma, normalizing conversations and bringing mental health education to students in every part of the world.
Derick Elkin
Derick joined Erika’s Lighthouse in 2023. He is from Chicago, IL, and lived there until moving to Columbia, MO to attend the University of Missouri, better known as Mizzou. After earning degrees in History and Latin, Derick moved to China to teach English. He would eventually return to the United States, spending several years as an Educator in Texas before moving back to his hometown of Chicago, where he now resides. Passionate about youth mental health, Derick now works as the Empowerment Club Coordinator for Erika’s Lighthouse.
Bridging the Gap: Navigating Intent vs. Impact to Address Bias and Repair Harm in Schools
February 3, 2025 @ 12:00-1:00pm UTC
Register NowIn this webinar, we'll explore the critical distinction between intent and impact, particularly within school environments. We'll delve into real-world examples and discuss actionable strategies for addressing and repairing harm caused by implicit biases and identity-based actions. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how unintentional actions can have significant negative effects. Participants will be better equipped to understand the nuances of intent versus impact. Participants will learn actionable steps to acknowledge unintended harm, and implement effective restorative practices.
Speaker: Cheryl-Ann Weekes
Cheryl-Ann Weekes (M.Ed. in Counselor Education) has worked as a Counselor in the U.S. since 1997 and in international schools since August 2010 in multiple countries. Cheryl-Ann has extensive experience working as a school counselor with expertise in mental health and social emotional counseling, college counseling, advisory planning and academic counseling. She loves the opportunity to have individual conversations with her students and uses quotes from her favorite authors to teach lessons about resilience, self esteem and mental health to her students. Cheryl-Ann has facilitated workshops and presented at conferences for PTC, AIELOC, AMISA, ISS and CIS. Cheryl-Ann started her consultancy business Weekes Enterprise, LLC in February 2022 to facilitate workshops for students, educators, parents and community organizations around the topics of consent, boundaries, mental health, psychological safety and inclusive counseling.
Past ISCA Webinars recordings for viewing
For ISCA Members, all webinars from August 2021 onwards can be watched on this page: 2021-23 ISCA Webinar Recordings.
Introducing ISCA's New Counselor Certification Programs
with Cheryl Brown and Brooke Fezler
July 23, 2024
Resources from the webinar
- Certificate Webinar.pdf
- Enrollment Form: ISCA Certificate Program
- List of Certificate Courses to Download
- ISCA Academy Certification and Specialization
- Academy Course Registration Page
Responsive Services with A Trauma Informed Lens
with Janice Holland
March 10, 2022
- You can access all the documents shared, including her presentation slides (as a pdf document) by clicking on this link to the Google drive folder.
- The webinar is free to view. Simply enter your information after clicking on the PLAY button
Crisis in Ukraine: How can School Counselors Help
March 02, 2022
- Presentation Slides
- For updated resources visit this link.
- Student Art Project Sponsored by PSI Kyiv
- The webinar is free to view. Simply enter your information after clicking on the PLAY button
What are Counseling Consultation Circles? An Inside Peek
January 19, 2022
- Document: Importance of Consultation for Counselors
- Click here to learn more about the Linden Consultation Circles. Download the brochure and register to participate in the Spring 2022 session.
- The webinar is free to view. Simply enter your information after clicking on the PLAY button
CBT for Teens: Simple Strategies from CBT for Teenagers in the PandemicFebruary 17, 2021The webinar is free to view. Simply enter your information after clicking on the PLAY button and you will be taken to view it! |
Understanding and Communicating Your Role as a School Counselor in an Online Environment with Dr. Stuart Roe | Coping with Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Supporting the Mental Health of International Communities affected by the Pandemic with Dr. Sean Truman |
What is Happening!? Can Mindfulness Based Wellbeing Really Help in a Global Crisis? with Kevin Hawkins and Amy Burke(Resources mentioned during the webinar: resource list ) | Supporting Counselors as Leaders with Dr. Chris Liang |
Planning for and Responding to Grief and Loss During a Pandemic with an ISCA Panel( PowerPoint with live links to resources) | Upskill Your Tech Skills with Sarah Carpenter(Resources: Tip Sheet for FlipGrid and Tip Sheet for EdPuzzle) |
DocuFilm ¨Like¨Q&A with Scilla Andreen |
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Webinars
June 10, 2020 Counselor Chat Part 1 | June 17, 2020 Counselor Chat Part 2 |
Sept 17, 2020 Counselor Chat |