Nurturing Self-Regulation
Use this self-regulation guide to teach your students to better regulate their behavior in the classroom. Learn the developmental stages of self-regulation to better understand the foundation of these important skills.
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How to Teach Coping Skills to Students: A Guide for Teachers
Teaching coping skills to elementary school students is a crucial aspect of their emotional and social development. As teachers, you play a vital role in helping your students build resilience and manage the ups and downs of life effectively. In this guide, we’ll explore various strategies and techniques to teach coping skills to elementary school students, creating a supportive and nurturing classroom environment.
How to Teach Kids to Be Brave
We all want our children to be brave. Here are 4 ways to teach kids how to be brave: 1. Be a Role Model The best way for us to …
Using Yoga in the Classroom
Fun and Engaging Tips to Make it a Success Most educators know that yoga is good for you. But how do you introduce yoga in the classroom to tap into …
Character Strengths for Students
What are Character Strengths? Character Strengths are the positive qualities of your personality that impact how you think, feel, and behave. Teaching character strengths for students promotes well-being and creates …
Teaching Honesty to Students
Teaching students to be honest is one of the most important lessons you will deliver.
Perseverance Activities for Students
Perseverance is a critical component of student success, yet we wonder how to teach it to students. Although there are no shortcuts to teaching perseverance, these perseverance activities for students can help.
How to Use Movement in Your Classroom
Movement breaks in the classroom are short bursts of simple exercises to release energy and prepare the brain for learning. In addition, movement breaks in the classroom allow the brain …
6 Reasons to Teach Kindness
Learn 6 reasons to teach kindness and get some ideas to do it!
Sensory Breaks in the Classroom
Use purposeful sensory breaks to stimulate learning. How wiggly are your students? How often are they getting to move within your classroom? Regularly scheduled sensory breaks for students provide them …
Interoception – A Hidden Sense that Shapes Well-being
How our 8th Sense may be the key to well-being What is Interoception? Although, we have been taught that humans have five senses, we are just beginning to learn that …
How do You Build Resilience?
8 Ways to Foster Resilience in our Children Resilience gives you the ability to bounce back from setbacks and deal with life’s challenges. This article outlines 8 ways to help …
Calming Activities for Students
All Students are capable of becoming calmer and more focused through these calming activities. These calming activities for students will help calm their minds and bodies. As we all know, …
Growth Mindset in Your Classroom
These are 5 Ideas to try in your classroom to foster a growth mindset.
3 Tips for a Positive Classroom Culture
Are you hoping to establish a positive culture in your classroom? Would you like all students to feel like they belong in your classroom? Would you like to establish a …
Coping Skills for Students
Coping skills help us calm our brains and bodies. We use coping skills to manage our big emotions and deal with stress. Teaching students to use coping skills at an …
3 Ways to Cultivate Resilience
Spring is almost here – a time of fresh beginnings and a time to bounce back. As we continue building our resilience, we must remember to be playful, optimistic, and …
Self-Regulation Skills in the Classroom
Student self-regulation in the classroom is essential to student learning. It involves understanding and processing emotions so we can manage behaviors. If students are too busy struggling to manage their …
Activities for Growth Mindset
Growth mindset for students including a basic overview of brain neuroscience.
Growth Mindset for Students
Why teaching growth mindset to students is valuable and necessary.
5 Kindness Practices to Try
Why kindness is important and ways to cultivate kindness.
The Benefits of Kindness
The benefits of kindness are huge for all of us! Check out these ideas for putting kindness into action.
12 Days of Christmas Activities
Fun holiday activities to foster kindness and well-being along with a free download.
10 Tips on How to Increase Resilience
We can recover more quickly from adversity by learning to increase our resilience. Becoming more confident in our capabilities, including responding to and dealing with life’s challenges, is a means …