Maureen Healy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping how students learn, complete their assignments and consider future careers. Today’s classroom looks vastly different from the one we grew up in—and navigating it effectively requires an innovative approach.

In this session, Maureen demonstrates how to empower students to:

• Best Use of AI in Education – Students who understand how to ask questions and use AI as a support or assistant versus crutch will be developing real-world skills. Maureen covers scripts, scenarios and approaches to guide students to deeply understand the role (and not the role) of AI in learning.
• Develop Discernment & Critical Thinking
• Gain AI Literacy – Gain a deeper understanding of the best practices in teaching AI Literacy skills to students, as well as the mechanisms of how AI really works.
• Gain AI Integrity – Gain a deeper understanding of how to teach students to be responsible and honest with their use of AI in learning. Maureen shares stories and best practices so that students have their own “ah-ha” moments on why this is important.

Participants walkaway with a clear picture of how AI can be effective in helping students learn – in certain scenarios, while it is not a replacement for real-world connections and relationships.

Maureen cuts through the noise to deliver a practical roadmap for the future of K–12 education. Instead of looking at technology as a substitute for teaching or distraction, this session highlights how AI and emerging tools can be leveraged to enhance learning, automate administrative burdens, and free up educators to focus on what they do best: connecting, coaching and instructing students with empathy.

Participants will have a re-energized vision of educating for future success, and a meaningful life. Some key takeaways include:

• The AI-Augmented Classroom: How to integrate AI into instruction, assessment, and lesson planning while teaching critical thinking. Real-life examples of how AI enhances instruction and engages students can guide your pedagogy.
• Shift to Human Capabilities: Why "soft skills"—such as adaptability, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and complex problem-solving—are becoming the ultimate core subjects.
• Rethinking Assessment: Shifting towards portfolio-based, project-driven, and real-world mastery demonstrations versus solely standard testing.
• Leadership: Concrete steps leaders can take today to future-proof their curriculum, infrastructure, and professional development. Understand meaningful trends and changes that will likely impact your students.

Resilience is not as an innate trait a child has or doesn't have, but as a skill to be developed through science-backed approaches, relationships and mindset.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the science of student resiliency, as well as the practical strategies that help them learn how to bounce back – no matter what. Maureen tailors each program but may discuss:

• The Resilience Mindset: Learn scripts, stories and strategies that help students build their resiliency toolkit. Understanding the language that can effectively guide students to strengthen their ability to persevere, bounce back, and overcome what feels like tremendous challenges is what Maureen is known for.
• Strategies: Science-backed strategies that build (or repair) resiliency can help students (and adults) form a resilient mindset, as well as deploy tactics in the moment to persevere and bounce back. This is essential to building an adaptive resiliency toolkit.
• When Bouncing Back is Hard: Understanding the necessary ingredients for a typical student to bounce back is essential in the building, repair and maintaining of resiliency – and when something is missing the ability to bounce back is greatly diminished. Maureen shares some “red flags” for teachers and parents to spot and if they locate, they might benefit from bringing in a specialized professional.
• Connection to SEL: Becoming happier and more joyful in this world requires that you learn how to manage difficult emotions, which requires inner strength and resilience. Happier students aren’t without difficulties they’ve simply learned how to handle them better, and that is what Maureen can help your classroom, community and school do.

Understanding children’s emotional health and how to help children build emotional regulation and self-awareness is the focus of this program.

Participants re-engage with SEL and receive advanced tools to nurture emotional health in themselves, as well as their students and families.

Audience takeaways:

• Clear definition of children’s emotional health.
• Receive the “7 Essential Lessons” of how emotions work, and a plethora
  of activities to use in the classroom.
• Science-backed tools that helped children and teens foster emotional intelligence even in the toughest of times. Self-reflection scripts shared too.
• Receive special training to build EQ in different populations, especially neurodivergent and special education students.

Invite Maureen to deepen your understanding on how to impart and nurture emotional and social intelligence with today’s students, especially in the age of AI, anxiety and distraction. No questions are off-limits, and Maureen engages with all participants.