Hyla Parent/Guardian University
Come Learn with Us
As a school, our purpose is rooted in supporting students as they navigate the seas of adolescence. As an educational community, we are also committed to helping parents navigate those same seas. Every year, Hyla offers a series of learning events that focus on timely and important parenting topics for the adolescent years. We use a webinar format to ensure that more parents/guardians with a wide range of schedules can access expertise, research, and strategies. If you can't make it to the live webinar you can always watch a video replay.
23-24 Free Webinars
This year we are proud to provide parents/guardians with access to diverse voices of expertise across a range of topics through our partnership with ParentMap and our membership to People of Color in Independent Schools (POCIS Seattle). Both Parent Map and POCIS Seattle curate an impressive calendar of nationally recognized speakers. Parents/guardians can tune in to learn - either watching live, or viewing the replay later when it works for your schedules.
We are proud to offer webinars that align to our work and values. Links and times will be available as we get closer to the dates for each presentation. We encourage you to invite friends and spread the word! All of these events are free, but you will need to RSVP to get the webinar link.
Sept. 18, 2023 - 1 PM
Powerful Truths: Understanding Our Bias to Build a Better Future - replay
ParentEd Talks with ParentMap
It can be tempting to think of our children as “colorblind." After all, they’re so young and innocent, what could they possibly understand about a complex issue like racism? It turns out… a lot. The truth is: Socialization starts from birth and kids display biased behavior as early as preschool. Research suggests that promoting “color blindness” and ignoring race, racism and stereotypes actually leads to increased prejudice. The good news? Helping historically excluded and marginalized students develop positive ethnic-racial identities improves academic outcomes, health and overall well-being. And discussing race, racism and accurate historical information in school reduces prejudice among students of all racial backgrounds. Join Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D., one of the nation’s leading scholars on race, democracy and criminal justice, who will will articulate how the enduring legacy of anti-Black racism has forged America as a nation, revealing how a new vision for an equitable society, now and in the future, can only be seen through an honest lens of history. You will learn how to:
- Spot the signs of bias in yourself and others
- Educate your children on race and racism in an age-appropriate way
- Teach your family the tools they need to overcome their own and others’ biases
- Advocate for anti-bias education in your community
Oct. 5, 2023 - 6:00 -7:15 PM
Storytelling as Resistance: Experience at Predominantly White Institutions and Generational Trauma
POCIS Seattle
In this webinar Prisca Dorcas will name what it means to attend a predominantly white institution, PWI, as a non-white person. She will also address generational trauma telling stories about her own experiences with therapy, the stigmas around therapy, being 1st generation, and the experiences with being from a war-torn country has meant for her and her family. She will also explore ways to reclaim traditions while healing from generation trauma.
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She is a feminist, theologian, storyteller, and advocate founder of Latina Rebels, and author of “For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts” A Love Letter to Women of Color.” Mojica Rodríguez merges storytelling with pedagogy to help folks understand the larger forces at play, also known as systemic oppression.
Oct. 24, 2023 at 1:00 PM PST
The Power of Relationships: Nurturing Compassion and Resilience in Children - replay
ParentEd Talks with ParentMap
Climate change. The Covid crisis. Mass shootings. Times are tough, but are our kids? What allows some people to see each new challenge as an exciting opportunity, while others see only defeat and stress? Is resilience something you have to be born with, or can anybody learn it? Join best-selling authors, researchers and renowned psychologists, Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. and Robert B. Brooks, Ph.D. as they share powerful insights on how parents can support children in developing the skills necessary to more effectively deal with stress and pressure, solve complex problems, relate comfortably with others, and bounce back from disappointments, adversity and trauma.
Unlock the key to raising calm, self-confident, resilient kids. Learn how to:
- Rewrite you and your childrens’ negative “scripts”
- Cultivate inner strength and optimism (especially in tough times)
- Increase empathy, problem-solving and self discipline
- Build more self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-confidence in yourself and your kids
Dec. 6, 2023
Unplug and Rewire: Raising Screen-Savvy Kids in the Tech Era - replay
ParentEd Talks with ParentMap
Joe Clement and Matt Miles are veteran teachers who have witnessed firsthand how damaging technology overuse and misuse has been to our kids. In this energizing talk, they will outline the challenges of raising screen-savvy kids and provide practical strategies for promoting well-balanced technology habits for the entire family. Come learn how to:
- Spot the signs that your child’s school is using too much tech
- Prepare your kids for a more well-rounded approach to social interactions IRL
- Protect your kid from pro-tech corporate technology purveyors infiltrating your childrens’ schools
- Find simpler, smarter, more effective forms of teaching and learning
Jan. 10, 2024
Brave Listening: The Secret to Safeguarding Your Child’s Mental Health
ParentEd Talks with ParentMap
In this essential talk, suicide risk assessment expert Stacey Freedenthal, Ph.D., LISW, will guide parents through the sensitive and challenging topic of supporting their child’s mental health. Among the powerful strategies Freedenthal will outline is brave listening, which not only helps our children feel seen, heard and supported, but can literally be the difference between life and death.
Feb. 8, 2024 - 5:00–6:15 PM
A Conversation with Dr. Bernice A. King
POCIS Seattle
Mar. 13, 2024 - 6:00 - 7:15 PM
Beyond the Model Minority: Asian American Histories of Resistance and Renewal in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond - replay (password: membervideos)
POCIS Seattle
Award-winning scholar, writer, and teacher of Asian American history, urban history, and public humanities. She is the author of Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City, which examines the erased histories of the communities that built Seattle. The book was inspired by her own family history in Seattle as well as her work as an oral historian and archivist for Densho, a community-based organization that seeks to preserve and share the stories of the Japanese American incarceration. She is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside and lives in Pasadena.
May 23, 2024 - 6:00–7:15 PM
Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Setting of Technology and Society
POCIS Seattle
From automated decision systems in healthcare, policing, education and more, technologies have the potential to deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to harmful practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin takes us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech predictions with historical and sociological insight. When it comes to AI, Ruha shifts our focus from the dystopian and utopian narratives we are sold, to a sober reckoning with the way these tools are already a part of our lives. Whereas dystopias are the stuff of nightmares, and utopias the stuff of dreams… utopias are what we create together when we are wide awake.
Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab and author of three books, Viral Justice (2022), Race After Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013), and editor of Captivating Technology (2019). Ruha Benjamin speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.
Learn from Past Webinars
The Habits of Highly Effective Adolescents - Webinar Replay
Speakers: Christine Carter, Ph.D. and Laura Kastner, Ph.D.
Looking for ways to help your teen find fulfillment, focus, motivation? Come learn research-backed and realistic strategies that you can use as a parent to motivate and support your adolescent to become their best selves. During this conversation, "teen whisperers" Christine Carter, Ph.D., and Laura Kastner, Ph.D. will share effective tools and tactics drawn from the latest findings in neuroscience, sociology and psychology — and their own experience - to help parents coach the development of effective habits, goal-setting, and authentic leadership skills in their teens.
The Extraordinary Power of a Resilient Mindset - Webinar Replay
Speakers: Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., and Robert B. Brooks, Ph.D.
These co-authors of “Tenacity in Children” have made a decades-long study of what components and skills contribute to the dynamic development of a resilient mindset. In this webinar they focus on resilience as a conditioned process of competent functioning in the face of duress or adversity, and share strategies parents can employ to nurture this mindset and resilient behaviors in themselves and in their children.
Past Forward: The Legacy of Racism in Modern-Day America - Webinar Replay
Speakers: Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D., and Jeffery Robinson
Two of the nation’s leading scholars on race, democracy, inequality and criminal justice lead this essential talk about why educating kids about race matters: because teaching an honest history of the enduring legacy of anti-Black racism in America is foundational to building a more equitable society, now and in the future.