This site incudes information on the following:
-Facts about sleep
-Insomnia
-Insomnia and your thinking
-Sleep hygiene
This site also includes worksheets and information sheets available for download.
Smiling Mind can be used with kids, teachers or parents - at school and at home!
"Smiling Mind is a non-for-profit web and app-based meditation program developed by psychologists and educators to help bring mindfulness into your life."
To use these mediation, you can use the website, or download the free app from the App Store or Google Play.
There are full programs for classrooms, specifically for teachers, kids as well as adults.
"Spark People shares short videos for all different types of home workouts, no equipment required. There are several categories – Abs, Cardio, Yoga and Pilates, as well as others that diver into healthy cooking and eating ideas. These workouts are great when you are pinched for time. Choose a 10-12 minute routine and squeeze in some activity where you normally would have skipped it altogether."
The following is a chart on stress awareness. It includes the following questions:
- What was the stressful situation or event?
- What body sensations did I feel?
- What emotions did I have?
- What were my thoughts?
- How did I react or respond?
A Problem-solving Approach to Stress Management
What is Stress Strategies?
Stress Strategies looks at stress as a problem that can be addressed solved, or at least improved, using practical problem-solving methods.
Stress Strategies:
provides a variety of research-backed stress management strategies
shares real life stories of how people use these specific strategies to manage their stress more effectively
guides you through a few questions to help you make use of these various strategies
When finished, you’ll be able to download or print your own personalized stress management plan.
"Physical signs of stress can include headaches, stiff joints, and sore stomachs. Due to our bodies’ own self-protective measures, we might not realize that we’re living with symptoms of stress for days, weeks, months, or years. To support you, Yoga Ed. has created this toolkit. In this toolkit, you will find body-based practices to manage stress and support your and your students’ physical and emotional wellbeing."
You will need to provide your email to download the kit.
Poses and exercises for:
*headaches
*tension
*tight shoulders
*back ache
*sore hands
*vertigo
*stomach ache
*jaw
This resource contains full online modules for wellness related to Covid. There is a module for students and a module for teachers. Please open the resource for more details.
This is the presentation by Shannon McJannet from the May SBA meeting on supporting staff mental health.
Teachers emotionally support our kids — but who's supporting our teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" — the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students' experiences — and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.
Wealth of resources on:
Healthy Spaces
Promoting Belonging
Building Resilience
Mental Health Literacy
Promising Practices
"Hitting a wall? Explore self-care strategies to battle teacher burnout, and rediscover your inner superhero to bring excitement and creativity back into your classroom."
"Do you want to do bodyweight exercises you can do at home? Craig Ballentyne of Turbulence Training provides a wonderful collection of no-equipment bodyweight workouts designed to help you burn fat and get lean.
These instructional videos are mostly short ones (i.e. under 10 minutes) and can be used to create your own home workouts."
Project this video and have everyone be mindful and calm along with the video for 2 minutes (or just do it by yourself)!
The video prompts the users when to breath in, hold, and when to breath out.
Calming and relaxing. Use this to refocus.
Work-related disorders aren’t just limited to heavy manufacturing or construction. They can occur in all types of industries and work environments, including office/classroom/working at home spaces. Research shows that repetitive motion, poor posture, and staying in the same position can cause or worsen musculoskeletal disorders.
Neck and shoulder pain are common in sedentary jobs. Get loosened up and work out the kinks with these 12 exercises you can do at your desk.
Included are exercises for your arms, upper body, legs, head and shoulders.
Join Learning for Justice for a webinar on the importance of educators practicing self-care. Featuring middle school literacy coach Geneviéve DeBose and school social worker Shoshana Brown, this webinar will help educators understand the science and psychology of self-care, including how educator self-care affects students. You will learn a variety of practices and tools, and you will be able to identify practices that work best for you so that you can thrive and really show up every day in your school community.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted schools across the nation and contributed to a general sense of uncertainty and anxiety. Join Ricky Robertson as he discusses ways to care for our well-being and support others through this challenging time.
Have you been trying to get something done all day? Can't seem to manage to?
This little tool helps you understand the exact reason behind your procrastination, and helps you fix it right away.
If we challenge ourselves to do things we might not be sure about succeeding in, we grow and develop as a person. We gain inner power when we challenge ourselves to do the things we don’t know how to do. If we never try riding a bike, we miss out on how fun riding a bike can be. The resource also includes a web on stepping out of your comfort zone.
Explore self-care for teachers, and find 20 ideas for teaching self-care in your classroom as well.
Yoga Journal is your number one resource for yoga poses, sequences, meditation, and the lifestyle that surrounds it.
"Yoga Journal is a wonderful YouTube channel worth following if you want to learn how to do yoga at home. Highly experienced yoga teachers will show you how to do poses for the most relaxation, flexibility, and strength benefits. These short videos can be done whenever you have a few minutes to spare during your day."