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Schools are where we cultivate our future. And yet, many are stuck in the past. Outdated systems and practices leave even the best-intentioned teachers and administrators struggling to deal with the genuine, very complex issues schools face daily.

From discipline problems to disconnects between students and staff, (not to mention endemic burnout among staff), it’s no wonder that so many schools struggle.

Let’s fix that.

With the right tools and training, any school can become better equipped to serve its students and staff. The Bridge TICR Program brings a unique combination of evidence-informed professional development and human-centered personal development to help
you make your school a success.

Here's how it works:

BRIDGE Trauma-Informed Culturally-Responsive (TICR) Program is designed for teachers and school staff to develop trauma-informed and culturally responsive classroom strategies that promote students’ social-emotional health and academic achievement while supporting staff wellness. Available through on-site and virtual models, our program allows schools to scale learning and build internal capacity.

BRIDGE TICR Program is divided into four focus areas:

1

The Story Behind Our Kids
This focuses on defining healthy student-teacher connectedness and identifying the aspects of this relationship that foster academic achievement and social-emotional health through an understanding of trauma and its impact on school climate and classroom engagement.

2

Sharing Our Stories
This content challenges educators to explore their cultural, gender, and socio-economic class identities and examine how it facilitates or impedes connectedness with students while learning best practices for creating inclusive and equitable classrooms.

3

Putting Together A Plan
Integrating the trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach, this content engages participants in hands-on activities to help them start designing classroom rules and lesson planning using best practices for engaging students using a whole-child approach that supports whole-school approaches for improving school climate.

4

Caring for Self
Focused on educator’s professional and personal wellbeing, this content provides strategies for managing stressors that impact educators universally and specifically explores specific reasons and tools for burnout and secondary traumatic stress in urban, suburban, and rural communities.

3 Ways Bridge TICR Program Benefits Your School

Enlighten

Your teachers with practical trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices that can be integrated into the classroom and teachers can immediately begin seeing the impact on students.

Engage

Your team with in-depth and interactive professional learning experiences that provide them with the confidence needed to navigate discipline and behavior challenges with students that are often overshadowed by issues with trauma.

Elevate

Your schools and their leaders with system-wide improvements focused on strategies that motivate academic achievement and helps them better implement SEL programming into their schools.

Here's what superintendents and principals are saying:

“The Bridge program, presented by iOpening Enterprises, surpassed my expectations...an incredibly comprehensive professional development opportunity for our staff. The program has all the tools we needed, including surveys and pre-workshop questionnaires, to reflect upon the community’s level of trauma and cultural sensitivity as well as prepare both administrators and the staff for the training.”

“Delivered a dynamic training that blended humor, authenticity, and power behind the need to move towards action around implementing trauma informed practices within educational settings, in addition to laying a foundation of cultural responsiveness as a paired measure. Participants in the three-day Bridge TICR program training positively remarked on [iOpening Enterprises] ability to provide relevant scenarios in education to illustrate core concepts and to make true connections to our needs.”