Webinars

Helping Students Navigate Group Chat Drama:
From FOMO to Gossip and Beyond

Thursday, October 10th
12 PM – 1PM ET
FREE!

Group chats are a popular way for students to socialize, but they can also bring drama, misunderstandings, and distractions.

In this FREE webinar, PAPSA partners with The Social Institute (TSI) to offer valuable tips for addressing drama and empowering students to navigate group chats with confidence, ultimately fostering stronger friendships and self-confidence. In this session, we’ll explore ways to strengthen culture, student well-being, and academic success by helping students handle cyber-related issues that can create barriers to learning.

Attendees will learn:

  • Ways to equip students with strategies to handle group chat drama respectfully.
  • How to address common issues like cyberbullying, setting boundaries, and fostering self-confidence.
  • Ways to facilitate ongoing conversations with students and promote healthy online interactions.

Our panel of experts from PAPSA and TSI will join forces to help PAPSA members to learn strategies to help the students and staff we serve to address challenges they face on social media.

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PAPSA and TSI Present: How Innovative Schools Are Addressing Social Media, Tech, and Student Well-Being

On July 25, 2024, PAPSA and The Social Institute (TSI) presented the first in a series of free webinars to PAPSA members. Joined by PAPSA Secretary Jeanne Knouse and PAPSA’s Justin Rubinstein, TSI’s Caitlin Dallmeyer guided attendees on how to cultivate modern life skills in their students for sustained success through actionable strategies to build a systemic approach to help educators address a couple of the biggest influences on students: social media and technology.

Every day, students are hit with social media posts, comments from friends, changing tech trends, and a variety of pressures, including the need for all students to achieve academic success. Schools try to support student well-being and address social media and tech to foster productive learning environments, but it’s easy to make mistakes. To help in this endeavor, attendees learned the following:                                                                      

  • 5 best practices to avoid key mistakes when modernizing your approach to modern life skills & social media education.
  • The latest research behind why schools are adopting a positive approach to social media and technology that empowers and equips students, rather than scares and restricts.
  • The role social media & tech play in student well-being and academic success.
  • How administrators can help ensure practices and procedures will benefit all students.

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Featured Speaker

Caitlin Dallmeyer has spent the last 15 years in higher education as a teacher, coach, administrator and mentor for collegiate students. She has worked at Duke University, Dickinson College, and most recently Lehigh University. She consistently works with students in grades K-12 through her continued work in youth athletics as a coach and administrator.

PANELISTS

PAPSA Members Jeanne Knouse and Justin Rubenstein provide their expertise as Pupil/Student Services administrators. Jeanne is the PAPSA Executive Board Secretary and has over 30 years of experience in education, eleven years utilizing Restorative Practices, and seven years as a Restorative Practices Trainer. She works closely with community service providers, Penn State University (PSU) campus community, and district staff to provide a full range of services for State College Area School District students. Justin is the Supervisor of Student Services in the Central Bucks School District, in Doylestown, PA. He has served as a former alternative school teacher, school psychologist, brain injury consultant, assistant high school principal, adjunct professor, and author.