(Wisconsin Dells) BHSS Pre-Conference D: Cool, Calm & Collected: Part 2

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2025 Building the Heart of Successful Schools Conference - General Information 
The Building the Heart of Successful Schools (BHSS) Conference connects and inspires Wisconsin educators in order to serve every student.

• Pre-conference: Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | AM sessions - 8:30am-11:30am or PM sessions 12:30pm-3:30pm
  Pre-conference registration $75.00 per attendee, per half day session
• Conference: Thursday, December 11, 2025
  Conference registration $150.00 per attendee, full day 

Glacier Canyon Conference Center | Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI

Hotel Accommodations: Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Dells, Call 1-800-867-9453 to book your room at special rates for conference attendees. Refer to Leader #A65517. Reserve by November 9, 2025.

Support and funding provided by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Find more information at www.wishschools.org/resources/bhss.cfm

BHSS Pre-Conference D: Cool, Calm & Collected: Effectively addressing anxiety in our student and ourselves - Part 2: Effectively Addressing Anxiety within a Multi-Leveled Framework |
with Amy Scheel Jones, CCSI
Wed, Dec 10, 2025 12:30pm-3:30pm

Session Description: This session is offered as a standalone pre-conference session or as a compliment to session D: Cool, Calm & Collected: Effectively addressing anxiety in our student and ourselves - Part 2: Effectively Addressing Anxiety within a Multi-Leveled Framework to allow participants to engage with the content that is most meaningful to them and their development. Taken together these seminars will allow educators from diverse backgrounds to deepen their understanding of anxiety, its impact, and the unique ways anxious reactions disrupt regulation and learning.  This knowledge will be extended with practical strategies that take a neuro-physiological approach to effective interventions at the universal, targeted, and intensive support levels.  Emphasis will be placed on the importance of wellness practices, effective teaming, and family engagement.  Specific considerations to guide clinical referrals and support school re-entry plans will be offered.  Didactic learning will be punctuated with discussion and activity.

Session 2 requires a firm working knowledge of the neuro-physiology of the stress response, the difference and nuance of anxiety across the continuum, and the ability to recognize how anxious responses may be observable in schools.  Session I is recommended as a pre-requisite for anyone who desires a refresher in these areas, or those with less experience in the topic area.

This session will offer participants the opportunity to increase their confidence in addressing anxiety and its impact in their daily work.  Appropriate for any discipline (administrator, classroom teacher, mental health staff, support staff, etc), focus will be on establishing a robust support system woven into a multi-levelled system of support.

Key topics covered:

• Universal practices for wellness and anxiety reduction

• Just in Time de-escalation and regulation

• Targeted interventions

  • Accuracy in identifying the nature of anxious presentation

  • Caregiver engagement

  • School-based supports

• Intensive Support

  • Partnering for success

  • The role of treatment

  • School re-entry planning

  • Multi-modal, multi-year frameworks

• Factors contributing to a Community of Care

About the Presenter: Amy Scheel-Jones, MS Ed., CCISM | As Director of Transformation in Education for CCSI, Amy Scheel-Jones brings depth and breadth of experience to capacity building and change management strategies. Her early work as a School Counselor allowed her to develop expertise in practical approaches to prevention, resiliency, and fostering well-being that is now applied across sectors. A committed advocate and systems thinker, Amy has consistently applied these core principles to accelerate practice transformation efforts in educational settings, behavioral health system planning, and cross-sector impact efforts at both state and community levels. The core of her work includes sustainable system transformation grounded in trauma-responsive principles, positive youth development, and resilience enhancement with an equity focus. Specifically, Amy oversees TIG, promoting improved skills in areas of trauma, illness, and grief through comprehensive training and the establishment of integrated crisis response networks with K-12 and Higher Education partners. As the inaugural lead facilitator, Amy helped develop and establish the NYS Trauma-Informed Network and is an Approved Instructor with the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF). Through high quality consultation and training on trauma-responsive approaches, resilience development, and mental health and well-being, she focuses on direct pathways for participants to apply their learning in daily life and work. Amy is a contributing editor to the Reaching Teens Toolkit 2nd edition (AAP.org), where she created an online portal for education professionals aligned with SEL competencies. She received her BS in Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University followed by her MS in Education in Counseling from SUNY Brockport.