Dreading a New School Year? I don’t know about you but going back to school with new students used to get my tummy turning. Dread hung on my shoulders and motivation was nowhere to be found. How was I to keep control of new students, teens I didn’t know and who were different from me? …
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How the Social Styles List Can Transform Your Classroom
Free Resource for Effective Classroom Management Without a doubt, high school classrooms today are more diverse than ever—culturally, emotionally, and socially. As educators, you likely face students with varying communication preferences, personalities and “social styles”, making it challenging to foster meaningful relationships and manage your classroom effectively. Importantly, one-size-fits-all approaches to classroom management don’t work …
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You Won’t Get Classroom Management Without This
Dreading a New School Year? I don’t know about you but a new school year with new students used to get my tummy turning. Dread hung on my shoulders and motivation was nowhere to be found. How was I to keep control of new students, teens I didn’t know and who were different from me? …
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A Classroom Management Professional Development Activity
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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Build Teen Social Emotional Skills
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 …
Final Episode™: Resolving Conflicts Through Communication, an Engaging Learning Experience for High School Students
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 …
Mental, Emotional, and Social Health with Toys? Yes, with MESH!
MESH + Toy Industry + aws Studios While perusing an issue of “The Toy Book,” a toy industry trade magazine, I came across a mention by Editor in Chief James Zahn in his editorial about “MESH,” a new acronym for “mental, emotional, and social health.” For me, this was a ‘needle in the haystack’ discovery. …
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An Easy-to-Use Communication Resource for Parents of High School Students
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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Swept into Mental Illness? Assess Your Mental Health
How to have mental health with skill building or social-emotional learning
How to Get Along with Others
Learn how to get along with others and reduce conflict with the Circle of Community!