From Policy to Practice: Making Safeguarding Stick with With This Note
Date: January 20, 2027
Time: 9:00-10:00am UTC
About this webinar
Safeguarding shouldn’t live in policy binders or one-off lessons, it should live in students’ daily experiences, language, and choices. Yet in many schools, child protection is still taught in isolation, leaving students informed but not truly equipped. This webinar introduces a practical, student-centered approach to safeguarding that moves from awareness into action. Grounded in the International School Counselor Association standards, the session demonstrates how With This Note can be used as a structured, school-wide tool to explicitly teach help-seeking, boundary-setting, and identification of trusted adults.
Rather than adding another initiative, this approach helps schools organize what they already do into a clear, consistent framework. Participants will experience a live micro-lesson, explore direct alignment to ISCA competencies and indicators and learn how to build a shared safeguarding language across classrooms, counseling spaces, and the wider school community. By centering student voice and real-life application, this session shows how safeguarding can become something students practice, not just learn about.
Attendees will leave with ready-to-use strategies, adaptable lesson structures, and a clear pathway to embed safeguarding into everyday practice, ensuring it is not only taught, but truly understood and used by students.
Speaker
Dr. Annalice Hayes is the author of With This Note, a children’s book that empowers young readers to understand personal safety, consent, and body autonomy through connection and trust. Her writing reflects her deep belief that every child deserves to feel safe, valued, and heard, a philosophy that also guides her work as a school counselor.
For the past eleven years, Dr. Hayes has supported middle school students at the American School of Doha as part of a dynamic, student-centered counseling team dedicated to fostering wellbeing, resilience, and a sense of belonging. She is recognized for her relational approach, her calm and thoughtful demeanor, and her dedication to supporting students and families in navigating life’s transitions with confidence and care.
With a Doctorate in Education and over 15 years of experience working in international schools, Dr. Hayes values research-based practices grounded in genuine human connection. Her contributions at ASD include collaborative work in personal safety education, transitions, and social-emotional learning — systems and conversations that strengthen the entire school community.