Boosting mental health skill building
Classroom Management Professional Development Don’t waste your teachers’ precious time this summer! Have them take part in the Circle of Community™, a perfect activity for classroom management professional development. Circle of Community™ is a team building / community building activity for groups working together in classrooms, teams, families, or on the job. Works For Both …
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Teen Social Emotional Skills: A Comprehensive List As a mental health educator, I knew the skills to help teens build their mental health or social emotional learning. These include communication, goal setting and planning, decision making, problem solving, and stress and personal management. Furthermore, as a Training Specialist for the NYS Adolescent Services and Resource …
A New Social Emotional Learning Bundle My Christmas gift to you – a bundle of goal setting and planning resources (20% off)–perfect for helping students get a fresh start in the new year while boosting their mental health and social and emotional skill building! Three Resources In One This social and emotional skill building bundle …
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Handmade Gifts and Cards I have always liked making Christmas gifts. Not only that, I have made my own Christmas cards to send to family and friends almost every year for over the past 40 years! When I worked as a mental health educator, I would use my handmade cards to give to staff at …
During the Thanksgiving holiday season, there’s talk, of course, about giving thanks and gratitude. But this aws Studios freebie gives you the opportunity to “gift” the people in your life “permission” to do things they want but often feel like they shouldn’t or don’t deserve to do, a mental health, social and emotional best practice. …
Transform Student Feelings of Overwhelm to Confidence Do you find your students feeling overwhelmed? Students want to do a lot. Furthermore, they deal with expectations from their relationships with family, school and friends. It can feel like it’s all too much. And, giving up might be right around the corner. Roles and Goals™, a social …
Bored, Uninterested Teenagers Become Engaged, Empowered, Knowledgeable, and Skilled The first thing that sparked my bored, mistrusting high school class during “Final Episode™: Resolving Conflicts Through Communication” was showing them a segment from a popular family drama TV series. Heads popped up and eyes engaged with the screen as if to say, “Cool. Are we …
Hate Working in Groups? A student I know hated working in groups. It made them feel uncomfortable and worthless. One group member always took charge, boss others around and no one challenged the domineering leader. The groups usually got the project done but not without a lot of stress to their mental health with bad …
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I Want to be a Doctor but I Don’t Think That Will Ever Happen! One day, I asked two of my students who were buddies what they wanted to do when they were older. “Doctors — pediatricians,” they excitedly responded. They wanted to help little kids. But immediately after, they said they didn’t think it …
An Accessible Parent Communication Resource The “Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents Pamphlet” is a handout created from the findings of “Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action.” The resource is a two-sided pdf that “boils down” the research into a foldable, user-friendly, easy-to-read, and sharable pamphlet. Make Parent Communication Easy Importantly, …
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