National Association of School Psychologists Advanced Skills Institute 2026

NASP’s Advanced Skills Institute 2026 focuses on practical challenges faced by experienced school psychologists and allied practitioners. The July 7–8 virtual program connects school-based mental health with assessment, consultation, leadership, and professional ethics. Sessions address DBT skills, multilingual evaluations, executive functioning, socially just MTSS, racial battle fatigue, and support for gender-diverse students. Other presentations consider home-school partnerships, misinformation, and conflicts between legal or administrative directives and ethical responsibilities. The material is relevant to professionals supporting children and adolescents within educational systems. The original learning objectives and complete supplied Topics list are retained below for a clear view of the program’s scope.

Learning Objectives

• Apply Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills directly to school-based settings.
• Address and mitigate racial battle fatigue through practical, targeted interventions and self-analysis.
• Enhance the accuracy and depth of multilingual student evaluations beyond basic checklists.
• Align coaching and leadership styles to effectively guide school systems through change.
• Advocate for socially just Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) at the micro-level.
• Build coalitions to combat misinformation and promote powerful home-school partnerships.
• Navigate situations where new laws or administrative directives conflict with professional ethics.

Topics

• Applying DBT Skills and Practices to School-Based Settings

• Beyond Awareness: Applying Skills to Address Racial Battle Fatigue

• Beyond the Checklist: Enhancing Multilingual Evaluations

• Coalition Building to Combat Misinformation

• Current and Relevant Legal Issues Impacting School Psychology Practice

• Keeping Public Education Alive and Well: What History Teaches Us

• Leading Through Change: Aligning Coaching and Leadership Styles

• Micro-level advocacy for socially just MTSS

• Promoting Powerful Partnerships: Practical Ways to Improve Home-School Connections

• Supporting Executive Skills Within an MTSS Model

• Supporting Trans and Gender Diverse Youth in a Time of Turmoil

• When laws or directives conflict with ethics: Charting the Course

Program scope: The original virtual event ran over two days, with some sessions offered in parallel. The supplied Topics list does not establish that every live activity is included in the recordings. Event participation, publisher-platform access, accounts, and related platform extras are not included in this file purchase.