Who We Are
Vermont Schoolhouse Seminars provides a wide range of professional development seminars, coaching, and facilitation services to schools and mental health agencies. VSS is dedicated to supporting schools' capacity for solving common but often complex challenges associated with nurturing and maintaining respectful, caring, and professional relationships among all members of the school community.
Vermont Schoolhouse Seminars provides down to earth, practical, and respectful approaches in all of the services it offers.
About Jonathan Udis
Prior to starting his consulting company in 1991, Jon worked as a classroom teacher, public school principal, and residential treatment educational director. In addition to his teaching experience, Jon served as a Vermont State facilitator for the National Diffusion Network and directed several projects aimed at school climate improvement. He has presented workshops at educational conferences throughout the United States and Canada and has taught graduate courses for St. Michael's, UVM, and McGill University. Jon is well known for his passion for learning, his love of teaching, and his commitment to helping every child receive the supports necessary for healthy development; he models mutual respect, warmth, active learning, and humor in all of his teaching. Jon lives with family outside of Montpelier, Vermont.
"All students come to school with unmet needs. Most students have the ability to delay these needs. Troubled children focus on nothing else until these needs are met. Meet the needs early or consume your time fighting them. The choice is yours, not theirs."
