Lesson series

BrainSTEPS New Team Member Training - Brain Injury Fundamentals

PART 1: This is a mandatory training for all NEW BrainSTEPS team members.
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Interactive video

HD lessons with real-time demonstrations, slow-motion breakdowns & chapter navigation.

Downloadable Resources

Practice sheets, reference guides, checklists & templates you can use in the studio.

Skill Assessments

Hands-on assignments and self-checks to track your progress through each module.

Certificate of Completion

Earn a professional certificate to showcase your training and boost credibility.
Benefits of our training

How this course will benefit you

Developed by the BrainSTEPS Brain Injury School Consulting Program — a nationally recognized model serving Pennsylvania schools since 2007.

Brain injury fundamentals

Build a strong foundation in traumatic brain injuries of all severities, concussions, and non-traumatic brain injuries — and understand how cognitive, physical, socio-emotional, and behavioral impairments impact a student's classroom performance and learning.

How BrainSTEPS teams serve schools

Learn how regional teams based out of Pennsylvania's educational Intermediate Units deliver brain injury consultation and training to school staff, students, and parents — and monitor every referred student annually until graduation.

Free, state-funded training

Mandatory training that prepares every new BrainSTEPS team member before serving their regional team — within a program created by the PA Department of Health and jointly funded with the PA Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education via the PaTTAN network.

Course Curriculum

Your instructor

Dr. Brenda Eagan-Johnson, CBIS-AP

BrainSTEPS State Director

Dr. Brenda Eagan-Johnson, CBIS-AP has worked in the field of pediatric brain injury for over two decades. She is the State Project Director for Pennsylvania's BrainSTEPS Brain Injury School Consulting Program, a nationally recognized model. Her daily work includes program implementation, student/school/team member/healthcare provider consultation, and training for over 300 BrainSTEPS brain injury educational consultants serving 31 BrainSTEPS teams across the state. She received her master's degree in Special Education Transition: Brain Injury from the George Washington University and her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in Mind, Brain, and Teaching (educational neuroscience).
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Frequently asked questions

Who is this training for?

This is a mandatory training for all NEW BrainSTEPS team members.

What does a BrainSTEPS team do?

BrainSTEPS teams cover all Pennsylvania public schools and provide brain injury consultation and training to their school districts when a child has been identified as having experienced an acquired brain injury.

How are BrainSTEPS teams and Return to Learn Concussion Management Teams different?

BrainSTEPS Teams: consultation and training available for all severities of student acquired brain injuries (TBIs and non-TBIs); TBIs also include concussions. Return to Learn Concussion Management Teams: school-based teams trained by BrainSTEPS to manage student concussions for the initial 4 weeks only.

What does the program cost?

Free. BrainSTEPS was created by the PA Department of Health and is jointly funded by the PA Department of Health and Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education via the PaTTAN network.