FREE Event Teaching with Soul Cultivating Connection, Confidence, and Care

📍 Event Details:

Location: Marina Isle Assisted Living
Date: 6/14/2025
Time: 11:00am to 2:00pm
Cost: FREE (limited spots available)
Includes: Certificate of Participation, Light Refreshments, and Wellness Resources

📍 Short Bios of Presenters:

Dayanna Cumberbatch is an ESOL and Spanish teacher with experience teaching middle and high school students, including in IB and MYP programs. She is passionate about helping students build language skills and confidence in welcoming, supportive classrooms. Currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education, Dayanna focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive teaching to support multilingual learners.

My name is Elaine Morales, and I am a creative and enthusiastic world language teacher who has helped students accomplish their language learning goals for almost two decades in Colombia and the U.S. As a result of my lifelong passion for learning and education, I studied modern languages in 2008. I completed my master’s in Curriculum and Instruction in 2019. Currently, I am pursuing an EdD program in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in TESOL at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

I am a strong believer in the power of self-care, so I am passionate about helping students and teachers improve their overall well-being. I have found great benefit in implementing a lifestyle that promotes well-being in my own life, including doing Christian meditation and prayer, exercise, having a healthy diet, learning new skills, maintaining good social relationships, and supporting others.

📍 Titles and Descriptions of Workshops:

Workshop Description:

Integrating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for English Language Learners (ELLs)

This workshop aims to enhance teacher capacity to integrate SEL strategies into instructional practices that are culturally and linguistically responsive. Participants will explore practical ways to support ELL students’ emotional well-being alongside language development.

Workshop Description:

Workshop Title: Teachers’ Well-being

1. Purpose:

The purpose of this workshop is to help educators learn practical ways to enhance their three basic psychological needs according to Ryan and Deci’s Self-Determination Theory (SDT). Supporting teachers; overall well-being will enable them to be better equipped to assist their students effectively.

2. Goals:

The general goals for this LoP project include:

 Providing educators at the Golden Keys non-profit foundation with information about factors affecting teachers; well-being.

 Sharing practical evidence-based strategies with teachers to satisfy the three basic psychological needs based on Ryan and Deci;s Self-Determination Theory (SDT).

The specific goals for this project are:

 Illustrating factors affecting teachers’ well-being.

 Identifying practical evidence-based strategies to improve teachers’ well-being.

 Identifying actionable strategies to enhance the three basic needs in the teaching context.

 Rating the workshop effectiveness to help improve teachers’ well-being.

The workshop’s content will include current research findings about teachers well being based on Ryan and Deci’s (SDT). (e.g., the definition of teachers’ well-being, factors affecting it, the connection of well-being to three basic need satisfaction, applicable strategies to enhance three basic needs).

During the workshop, teachers will have short self-reflection and interactive opportunities with colleagues. At the end of the workshop, preliminary data will be collected from an exit survey to allow participants to rate the workshop’s usefulness to support the three basic psychological needs according to (SDT).

Whether you're a veteran teacher, new to the classroom, or supporting ELLs for the first time—this session is your chance to teach with heart, mind, and soul.

✅ Reserve your spot today and reconnect with why you became an educator.