Teachers have long known that feeling safe and secure in school helps students focus their energy on learning. And the research bears that out: A 2018 study found that when teachers deliberately foster a sense of belonging by greeting each student at the door of the class, they see “significant improvements in academic engaged time and reductions in disruptive behavior.”

This post outlines ideas from teachers for ensuring that every student in the classroom feels like they belong.

Some of the activities included take less than five minutes. They’re divided up among the grades, but many can apply across all of the years from kindergarten to 12th grade.

"Below is a list of 121 employee wellness program ideas that you can easily implement at your office.

Free bonus: Download this entire list as a PDF. Easily save it on your computer for quick reference or print it for your company’s next Wellness Meeting. Includes 10 bonus ideas not found in this post."

Content on website goes over the following topics as well as provides PDF worksheets and templates. Teens, young adults

Something About Me: Self-Esteem Sentence Completion
Things I Like About Me Worksheet
I’m Great Because…” Worksheet
Friendship Ingredients
Designing Affirmations Worksheet
Understanding Self-Confidence Worksheet
You, At Your Best Worksheet
My Wins Worksheet
Before You Die’ Bucketlist Worksheet
Reframing Negative Judgments
6 Self-esteem activities for Teens
Self-Esteem Sentence Stems Worksheet
Self-Esteem Journal Template
Gratitude Worksheet and Journal Template
Reframing Critical Self-Talk Worksheet
Identifying and Challenging Core Beliefs
Exercises for Building Self-esteem
Assertive Communication Worksheet
Tips for Overcoming Low Self-Esteem and Low Self-Worth
Ten Days to Self-Esteem Improvement: An Action Pla

Sun West DLC's Managing Your Mind presentation. Review discussions on daily stress and anxiety with three guest speakers. Learn strategies for growing resiliency in your life and home and hear from DLC teachers about some quick activities that can help manage your own mind during a stressful moment.

This presentation has been Powered by RBC, partners of the DLC in creating a locally developed Mental Wellness 30 course, and partners in bringing mental wellness discussions and awareness to the forefront. Thank you RBC, for your support, and for your contribution in making today’s event happen.

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This video gives you three tools for deep breathing to help manage stress anywhere, and any time you need it.

Pursed Lip Breathing; Deep breathing; Alternating Nostril Breathing

A student’s sense of belonging can come from connections with both peers and adults. This downloadable guide includes five strategies for building strong relationships with students and creating a positive school culture where everyone feels they belong.

*Activities & Templates are provided!

This short video (4 mins) outlines the 6 signs of stress that you shouldn't ignore. It explains each one in detail and what it might look like.

This article explains 6 ways to use breathing for stress relief and mental wellness.

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"Learning skills to support our mental health early in life can provide significant benefits to our physical, emotional, and social growth for life. For example, for children to choose calm in times of stress, they first need the opportunity to experience calm and practice arriving at a calm state.

All of the tools you find in this toolkit help cultivate calm, mental health, and overall well being. In this resource, learn 9 yoga and mindfulness practices for mental health that are suitable for a variety of settings and time frames: each tool may be as brief as 1 minute or expanded as needed.

Use the tools individually or all together to tailor your own experience, now and for the long term."

*Counting Breath
*Core Breath
*Yoga Poses at Desk
*Brain Break
*Relaxation

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Explains types of aggressive behaviour, identifies related factors, distinguishes between normal and concerning behaviour, and gives advice on how to address aggression in youth, including proven prevention and intervention strategies

The Action for Happiness app is based on the themes and actions from our popular monthly calendars and aims to give users a couple of friendly "nudges" each day - firstly that day's action in the morning and secondly an inspiring message towards the end of the day.

The app is like having a little personal action coach in your pocket who:

Gives you friendly 'nudges' with an action idea each day
Sends you inspiring messages to give you a boost
Helps you connect & share ideas with like-minded people

Download the app from The Google Play Store or the Apple Store.

There are several interesting articles written by Anne Gaviola on Vice focused on Canadian finances, debt, and correlations between money and a person’s well-being. Keeping your debt a secret can mess with your mind and body. The culture of secrecy around debt causes young people to suffer in silence, making it even harder to manage debt. Use this content for case-based learning opportunities.

Read the Article "Keeping Your Debt a Secret Can Mess With Your Mind and Body " (Anne Gaviola). Students can review the case study sections. Encourage students to ask questions and brainstorm solutions after reading each section. Have students discuss implications of title.Have students list questions about this person’s situation (after each section, if you wish). Brainstorm possible solutions. Have students reflect on their learning.

Students will review the potential effects on a person's investment value and overall mental impact of gambling versus investing. Using an investment scenario with a regular deposit to a lower risk investment, the students will compare potential returns to gambling activities, where the odds are close to 50/50 of making any money. 

This contains specific resources from the Sask DLC Financial Literacy 10 course. Included here are activities that  uncover student lifestlye reflections and future goals; assignments that allow the students to explore careers and design their future; and SK curriculum-specific videos on Needs and Wants, Defining Lifestyle, Indigenous Perspectives and Action Planning

"Five Ways People Are Dumb With Money Listening Guide and video" - Humans can’t quite remove emotions from the money-making decisions process!  Video: https://youtu.be/n1b7piSmmME?si=bi0PwhForYpec3cq