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Mykel Bridget has worked in the field of education for nearly 17 years. Born and raised in upstate New York, she graduated from the State University of New York, University at Albany with degrees in Biology and Psychology before pursuing a career in the animal training field. Not long after, she realized that her passion and desire to help others more closely aligned with a career in education. After only a few years of animal training, she became a middle school science teacher in Tampa, Florida.
After years as a science teacher, she was promoted to Science Coach in Hillsborough County, FL where she worked to help teams of teachers improve the accessibility and learning outcomes of their science students. She later returned to school and earned a Specialist Degree in School Psychology from Nova Southeastern University, combining her love of both education and behavior. As a school psychologist, she has supported a range of students across grade levels in both fully inclusive, as well as self-contained behaviorally-based programs. She pioneered the first-of-its-kind Animal Assisted Therapy program at the Norwich Free Academy, working with her therapy dog to improve the learning outcomes and social-emotional well-being of her high school students.
Mykel Bridget is currently the Director of Student Services at the Norwich Free Academy, in Norwich, CT. As Director of Student Services, she oversees Special Education programming and implementation, Section 504 services, Scientific Research-Based Interventions (SRBI), Social-Emotional Learning, and medical supports and services. Professionally, she believes in creativity in problem-solving, human-centered approaches, and fully subscribes to Ross Greene’s notion that “kids do well when they can.”
Mykel Bridget lives with her husband, two kids, and two dogs on the beautiful Connecticut shoreline. A hockey mom to both of her children, she’d love to fill her time with hiking and watersports- but in reality spends most of her free time in hockey rinks all across New England; cheering louder than she probably should.
SESSIONS
03:00 PM - 4:00 PM Wed, Nov 17, 2021 Gold Ballroom
Real-Life Safety Assessment Guide and Tools for Schools: A Success Story
By reviewing an averted school violence incident, the presenters will describe how NFA's Safety Assessment Team works to support students and families in crisis while also maintaining and promoting safety in the entire school community. Using plain language an a practical approach, attendees will walk away with strategies to create a multidisciplinary response to threats of violence or self-harm.Learning Objectives
- Review a successfully averted school violence event
- Discuss a multidisciplinary approach to respond to violent threats made on/off/about campus
- Demonstrate how to use school land community resources to establish a Safety Assessment Team
- Discuss tools and strategies that may enhance a school's multidisciplinary approach to threat response.
Participant Outcomes
- Attendees will be able to describe how a multidisciplinary Safety Assessment process can help avert potentially vionet events on school campuses.
- Participants will have tools in-hand that can be used to design an effective Safety Asess,ent process/team at their school.
- Attendees will have the ability to articlate and substantiate the creation and implementation in a safety assessment team/process within their school