Live Webinar:Surviving The Grind: Reengagement Strategies to Survive and Thrive During the Grinding Month of February

Title: Surviving The Grind:
Reengagement Strategies to Survive and Thrive During the Grinding Month of February

Overview:

February is the ultimate grind month—energy dips, engagement wavers, and both practitioners and students feel the weight of the mid-year slump. Without a built-in reset, this time of year can feel like an uphill battle, but it doesn’t have to!

Join us for this high-impact webinar where we’ll unpack brain-based strategies and practical engagement techniques to help practitioners power through February with purpose. Learn how to:

✅ Reignite student motivation with strategies that tap into curiosity, autonomy, and belonging.
✅ Combat routine fatigue by making small but powerful shifts to lesson delivery and classroom interactions.
✅ Manage mid-year behavioral challenges with proactive, high-impact redirection techniques.
✅ Boost practitioner resilience with mindset shifts and habit hacks to sustain energy and joy.

If February feels like survival mode, this webinar will give you the tools to reframe, refuel, and re-engage—so you and your students can finish strong!

This webinar is Free

Our virtual workshops are interactive. 

Throughout the course, you will engage in facilitated conversations, hands-on activities, and reflective exercises designed to meet the unique needs of youth-serving organizations.

Each session will provide practical strategies, insights, and habits that you can implement immediately to strengthen your leadership and improve outcomes for the learners and communities you support.

Your facilitator will not waste your time and will work hard to make your  virtual learning experience rewarding, informative, and motivating.

To enjoy the optimal learning experience…

• Turn your camera on and be prepared to use the camera, chatbox and audio.  
• Have  a pen and paper ready  for learning activities
• Keep your phone available to access any  QR codes

And bring a spirit of joy and wonder…. our facilitator will take care of the rest! 

Mockingbird will provide a QR code to download any workshop resources.  

We record workshop events.  Some event recordings are available to registered participants. 

Tamara Thompson

Tamara is an award winning educator with over 20 years teaching experience. She is a former Teacher of the Year Award Recipient for Austin Area Alternative Schools, a Michael Jordan Foundation’s Innovation Grant Award recipient, and a Southern Poverty Law’s Teaching for Tolerance Grant Award recipient. She was a YBUSA Teacher Fellows in 2010 and was awarded a Research Doctoral Fellows at the University of North Texas in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 2010. She is CEO and Founder of Mockingbird Education.

Tamara lives in Dallas, Texas. When not at Mockingbird, she can be found in her garden yelling at weeds, or on a boat begging fish to bite. Her children and husband hope she grows up one day to learn how to cook, sit still and watch a movie, and find her keys.