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There is a big difference between using reward systems to encourage students to behave and teaching students how to self-regulate. Join Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of the Social Thinking Methodology, to explore the many moving parts of self-regulation and which of our strategies, frameworks, and teaching materials help students develop these competencies across age groups.

Join us on a learning journey through the entire school year! Each month for 10 months our experts share best practices for teaching one of our 10 core Social Thinking concepts—which build on each other and foster the development of social competencies. Join us to explore the first of the 10 concepts, thoughts and feelings!

Join us on a learning journey with this second in our 10-webinar series on foundational Social Thinking concepts—which build on each other and foster the development of social competencies. The second concept, thinking with your eyes, identifies the power of our eyes in social communication, how digital devices stifle the development of social competencies, and how to motivate students to use their social attention when in the presence of others.

Join us on a learning journey with our 10-webinar series on foundational Social Thinking concepts. The third concept, the group plan, is essential for being productive in a classroom, hanging out with friends, playing sports, etc.! Learn more about this concept and how to teach it.

When hanging out with peers, some of our students think they’re part of the group when in fact they’re many steps away, which can impact their relationships. In the fourth of our 10-webinar series on foundational Social Thinking concepts, learn how to teach the surprisingly complex concept body in the group to all ages.

Whole body listening is a popular concept taught in schools to help students focus and actively listen with more than just their ears. In this fifth webinar in our 10 Concepts series, Michelle Garcia Winner shares important strategies and materials for teaching this concept beyond simply having students sit up straight and keep quiet.

Explore expected and unexpected behavior in the sixth webinar in our 10 Concepts series. Discover how to use these popular terms with fidelity in order to teach individuals to figure out the hidden expectations across different social contexts.

Explore the concept making a smart guess, the seventh webinar in our 10 Concepts series. In this webinar, discover how to encourage individuals who tend to be black-and-white thinkers to use gray-area thinking to help stay calm, solve problems, and meet their social goals.

Explore the concept flexible and stuck thinking, the eighth webinar in our 10 Concepts series. Discover strategies to help all ages develop flexible thinking to improve how they interpret what others say and do, how they work in a group, learn in a classroom, perform at work, etc.

Explore the concept size of the problem, the ninth webinar in our free 10 Concepts series. Join Michelle Garcia Winner as she cracks open problem solving and emotional responses and shares strategies to help individuals of different ages navigate it all.

Explore the final concept in our 10 Concepts webinar series, sharing an imagination. In this webinar, Michelle Garcia Winner will explore how all ages use this concept to have a conversation, work in a team, understand what they’re reading—and strategies to teach it.

In this webinar, two powerful innovators in the areas of emotional control, sensory regulation, and executive functioning join forces to discuss the latest thinking around the Zones of Regulation, a framework and related curriculum for building self-regulation skills. Michelle Garcia Winner, founder of the Social Thinking Methodology, will conduct an in-person interview with Leah Kuypers, author of The Zones of Regulation and founder of the related framework and curriculum.

Many of those with challenges developing social competencies struggle with far more than learning social skills. In this webinar, Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of Social Thinking, discusses our new evidence-based Social Competency Model to bring to light a four-step developmental process to help students evolve in their social competencies.

The teachings within the Social Thinking Methodology have been evolving for over twenty years, and a number of books have been written in the process to teach the methodology. Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of Social Thinking and Dr. Pamela Crooke, Social Thinking’s Chief Officer of Research and Clinical Services will host this webinar to explain the Social Thinking books that are designed for interventionists* to better understand multi-faceted social cognitive processes as well as learn related assessment and treatment frameworks and strategies.

In this free webinar, Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of Social Thinking, provides insider tips for using products published by Social Thinking to nurture social emotional learning in ages 4-7. The materials are helpful for students with solid to strong language and academic learning skills in mainstream and special education; all materials can also be used as part of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs, and Response to Intervention (RTI) Tier 1, 2 and 3.

People frequently ask how our products can be used together for a specific age group to teach and motivate kids to improve their social competencies in a fun and engaging manner. In Social Thinking’s first ever webinar, Michelle Garcia Winner will discuss the products Social Thinking has created for students ages 8-11 as well as share teaching tips and strategies related to the use of the following materials: You are a Social Detective!, the Superflex™ Curriculum, Social Thinking and Me, and the game Should I or Shouldn’t I?

In this webinar, Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of Social Thinking, will provide valuable teaching tips and delve into the scope and sequence of using Social Thinking’s products with students ages 11-22 to improve self-regulation and social competencies. The materials are helpful for students with social learning challenges (ranging from ASD levels 1 and 2, Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD, etc.) or students who are undiagnosed yet struggle with the rapidly increasing demands of social interpretation and related social skills.

In this free webinar, Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of Social Thinking, will discuss concepts and strategies to help adults with subtle but significant social learning challenges. She will also review the information taught in the book Good Intentions Are Not Good Enough, written by Michelle and Pam, in addition to the newest strategies they are currently developing.