Social-Emotional Learning and Mindfulness for schools Creating trauma-responsive, safe and connected classrooms
Resources To Help Schools Thrive Amidst A Prolonged Pandemic
As we continue to be socially, emotionally, physically and mentally impacted by COVID-19, our concern about “academic loss” must be met though the lens of healing.
This pandemic has exacerbated the stress, anxiety, frustration and overwhelm our educators and students have been experiencing for a long time.
Schools that prioritize student and staff social-emotional well-being will likely see a faster return to academic gains.
In order to develop these competencies, we need a new paradigm for BEING together in classrooms and as a school community. A lens of healing acknowledges the collective trauma we have all suffered this past year as well as the frustration surrounding continued uncertainty.
A healing lens brings relief and repair when toxic stress, anxiety and the mental health challenges interfere with ones ability to cope and participate in learning.
We know the constraints that classrooms face each day – time, space, physical resources of hands-on help and more.
We also know that we can not TEACH, LEARN and BUILD LIFE LONG SKILLS for our students if we do not address what we know now...
……the essential need to cultivate calm, safety, and connection in our classrooms – for our students, educators and administrators before academic rigor.
This is proven through the neuroscience. The brain is programmed to protect before it can learn anything. Calm, safe, connected classrooms help students to “feel” protected and this opens their mind/brain/body/heart for learning.
Calm, safety and connection are internal as well as external states. They can be taught.
I know that the thought of teaching something else, may sound like an insurmountable task.
This is where we come in.
We designed this bundle to be a comprehensive way of helping students develop the awareness and management skills needed to be able to self-regulate.
Self-regulation is a nervous system state of balance, which supports an individuals capacity to handle the present moment demands of a situation or task. Self-regulation is a key aspect of social-emotional learning, behavior management and academic success. A regulated nervous system is able to remain focused, calm, attentive, engaged, communicative, and compassionate.
How does this BUNDLE help you accomplish THIS in each classroom?
Our approach to mindfulness and social-emotional learning, prepares each adult who works with children, to confidently implement short (2 minutes), evidence-based, trauma-responsive activities in K-5th grade classrooms, counseling groups, therapy sessions and more.
This CLASSROOM RESOURCE PACKAGE includes:
- Our Amazon #1 Best Seller Teacher’s manual
- Self-Paced, online Professional Development
- Video Library access for direct, in-class instruction
In this school-based bundle, each educator receives…
Our Amazon # 1 Best Seller Teacher’s Manual
Educate 2B: Mindfulness and SEL for Educators and Students in the k-5th Grade Classroom
“EDUCATE 2B” includes step by step breathing, movement, and mindfulness strategies that align with SEL, PBIS and RTI; trauma-informed guidelines; and techniques for educator well-being (YES, that is essential for YOU and your students).
The manual provides insight for educators to understand the internal state of the human brain and nervous system and the role they play on behavior. The content addresses developmental differences, mental health issues, trauma and other classroom challenges (such as returning to school after a year long pandemic). Additionally, reproducible worksheets are available for teachers to utilize in their classrooms.
3 hours of Self-Paced, Online Professional Development
- Learn how mindfulness and social-emotional competency is essential to developing safety, connection and joy for learning and teaching effectively
- Understand the power of neuroplasticity, the brain’s natural ability to re-wire itself based on life experiences
- Explore how inner states determine one’s ability to regulate emotions, focus attention, develop positive mindsets and manage their own behavior
- Discover how trauma (and COVID 19) impacts the brain and the healing perspective that is essential for academic success
- Learn how to address mental-health and well-being for all in the post-pandemic classroom (without an “add-on” period in the day)
Video Library For Direct Student Instruction
- Access to our video library of 40+, short (2-5 minute) practices/lessons consisting of specific breathing, movement and mindfulness techniques designed to be shared with students in k-5th grade
- Use in large or small groups, individual sessions, in classrooms or with online/virtual instruction
- Each video is a short lesson that WE lead for you. It is as if we are in the room with you so that you can join the lesson by practicing the technique with your students. Together, you and your students will learn how to strengthen your inner muscles of achieving states of calm, focus, compassion and energetic balance.
Explore 2 of the videos from the library
This Is For You If….
- You’re a school administrator that wants to promote and support the mental health and well-being of your entire school community.
- You’re an educator looking for “easy to implement” classroom resources that are evidence-based, don’t take a lot of time and actually give you the personal tools you need to reduce your stress level, stay calm, grounded and connected. More importantly, you see the value and need to teach students tools to help them self-regulate, focus and achieve a “ready to learn” internal state.
- You’re a counselor or therapist looking for tools to support students’ ability to cope, calm and develop a sense of compassion for themselves and others. You also see the need for new ways to promote the physical, social, emotional and mental development and health of your students and colleagues.