Hey there, principals and superintendents! 

Are your teachers exhausted? Are you having trouble recruiting and retaining good teachers? Are your students like so many children and teens today who are experiencing unprecedented rates of depression and anxiety? Are you worried about your students becoming violent? Are you so busy and overwhelmed with all of your responsibilities that you don't know how to fix things? Then The Farris Method is just what you've been hoping for!

The Farris Method, developed by Dr. Jaelyn Farris, uses evidence-based approaches to transform education. We all know that well-adjusted and successful children become productive adults who make society a better place. Added bonus: They're a pleasure for teachers, administrators, and parents. But lately, these children seem to be the exception rather than the norm, as evidenced by dramatically increasing rates of depression and anxiety among children and teens and an unprecedented rate of school-based violence and shootings.

Teachers enter their profession to shape young minds and make the world a better place. But the reality they face - which includes students who are struggling with a lot more than just academics - is often starkly different than what they expected. This can quickly lead to teacher burnout.

Why are we seeing an abundance of maladjusted students, stressed out teachers, and unsafe schools?

Short answer: It's not them. It's the system they're in.

The educational system that's in place today was never designed to handle the challenges of our modern world.

Teacher education programs were designed to focus on lesson planning, "managing" student behaviors using outdated approaches, and aiming for strong test scores, rather than training teachers how to genuinely understand and best help their students grow as learners and as human beings.

Good news! There's a simple solution - The Farris Method - that will allow us to transform schools into healthier environments for students, teachers, and administrators. 

This method is built on theoretical and empirical research from the fields of developmental psychology and education. Implementing these theories and evidence-based techniques can make a dramatic difference in how classrooms and schools function. More importantly, using psychologically tested techniques to build relationships with students, put their well-being first, and turn their developmental "quirks" into assets can help teachers avoid frustration and burnout.
Added benefit: Healthier students and teachers lead to happier, higher achieving, and safer schools! 

Implementing evidence-based principles via The Farris Method has the power to transform single classrooms, entire schools, and our society as a whole. Dr. Farris has put this theory to the test in her own innovative school, Flying Trees Academy, where students are prioritized first as human beings and then as learners. The results have been profound! Students love coming to school, the teachers aren't stressed, parents are involved in their children's education, and students' academic growth has been stronger than would be expected in a traditional school setting. Better achievement, easier students, happier teachers... what more could you ask for?!

Contact Dr. Farris today to find out how you can learn about The Farris Method and implement it in your school to help your students, teachers, and yourself.

https://www.thefarrismethod.com/

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About Dr. Farris

Dr. Jaelyn Farris is the Founder and Director of Flying Trees Academy, an innovative evidence-based academy where the primary focus is on promoting students' mental health and well-being to ensure that students can develop into their best selves. She's using theory and research from the field of developmental psychology to raise successful children in a school setting. Her students are healthy human beings who love coming to school (really!) because they feel respected, supported, and safe there. What's the result of this? These well-adjusted students are performing well above their grade levels because their basic needs have been met and their brains are free to learn and grow to their fullest potential. In other words, The Farris Method works!

As a developmental psychologist, Dr. Farris has spent more than 20 years working in the fields of mental health and academia. Her career has included working in private practice and inpatient settings as a clinical mental health counselor, spending more than a decade as a college professor who taught numerous classes while running an active research lab, writing books to debunk myths and misperceptions about disadvantaged youth while also describing the factors that lead to resilience, and conducting applied research that used psychological principles to improve the lives of at-risk youth and their families. As a professor, Dr. Farris taught hundreds of current and future teachers how to harness the power of basic psychological principles to build healthy classrooms via classes such as Psychology of Education, Child Development, and Adolescent Development. Learning about developmental psychology, and how to apply it in their classrooms, allowed these teachers to shift from a “classroom management” perspective to a model in which students and teachers could not only survive, but thrive.

As a result of the success of Flying Trees Academy, and the growing interest in her unique and powerful approach, Dr. Farris is now speaking about "The Farris Method" to audiences big and small. By combining her strategic approach with an evidence-based yet outside-the-box perspective, Dr. Farris is helping teachers and school administrators break through barriers and challenges, overcome doubts, and achieve their goals. Teachers and administrators leave her talks and trainings empowered and equipped to use The Farris Method to transform their classrooms and schools into healthy, productive, and safe environments. With a unique approach for every audience, combined with exceptional guidance and contagious enthusiasm, Dr. Farris makes a lasting impact on the teachers, administrators, and schools who take advantage of her services.

Check out some of Dr. Farris's contributions at https://www.thefarrismethod.com/copy-of-consulting (scroll to the bottom of the page for links to news videos and popular press articles), https://www.thefarrismethod.com/ (scroll down for a video of Dr. Farris speaking to a small group about what The Farris Method is and how it can help solve some of the big problems that schools today are facing), https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Jaelyn-R-Farris-30396890 (for links to some of her scholarly work), and https://www.flyingtreesacademy.org/ (for more information about what The Farris Method looks like at Dr. Farris's academy). You can also connect with her on LinkedIn.