Pop Up PD: Cultivate Compassion
Thursday, May 8, 2025
3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Registration Deadline
Friday, May 30, 2025
Join your Regional COMPASS Climate and Culture Lead in monthly one hour sessions focused on supporting school climate improvement. Each session will include information on one area of school climate work with time to network, share common challenges related to school climate, support the needs of the group attending, and make requests for future Pop Up PD sessions. This collaborative event aims to strengthen support and improve school environments across our community.
February Session: COMPASS system and the School Climate and Culture team
March Session: Staff Wellbeing: 3 Ways to Support Staff the Remainder of the Spring
April Session: Cultivate Compassion
May Session: Topic TBD
Cultivate Compassion: Includes cultivatingcompassion for ourselves and others, compassion practices in action, and how to deal with difficult people.
Prior to the virtual Pop Up PD, you will receive a calendar invitation with a Zoom link included!If you've registered for a past session, you'll automatically receive a calendar invite to accept or decline.
These sessions are at no cost, funded through Collaborative Minnesota Partnerships to Advance Student Success, COMPASS, the statewide system for continuous improvement created through a collaboration between the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota Service Cooperatives.
If you have any questions about Pop up PD to support school climate and culture, please contact Megan Perry at mperry@resourcecoop-mn.gov. Megan is the Climate & Culture Lead for Resource Training & Solutions and Sourcewell.
About the Presenter
Megan Perry, COMPASS Climate & Culture Lead for Resource Training & Solutions and Sourcewell.
Megan is a Licensed Social Worker who has worked in education since 2014, focusing on mental wellness and resiliency with both students and adults. Experience with impacting systems through service cooperatives, school social work, school day treatment, youth residential treatment, as well as vocational programming for adults with disabilities. Designing and facilitating learning experiences that seek to deepen students and educators’ understanding of social and emotional life skills allows her to blend her love of systems-thinking with human-centered endeavors and solutions.