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.

This resource provides a number of tips for parents / learning mentors to make the best of their and their learner's experience!This includes:How to design an effective learning spaceEstabilishing a routine or schedule and monopolizing on flexibilityTaking meaningful breaks and having funTake advantage of opportunities in your community and travelTake care of yourself too! 

Techniques begin at 3:10!

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

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

"With big changes come bigger learnings. In the online learning space, our students (and honestly ourselves as educators!) contend with countless new challenges: distractions, shared spaces, lack of eye contact, missed social cues, passive observation and more.

Amid these challenges, how can we as educators and families ensure engagement, connection and quality learning within the students under our care?

We’re here to share what we’ve learned with you. In this month’s toolkit, you will:

Understand the imbalances in the mind-body that may happen during distance learning,

Identify when you and your students may be experiencing overstimulation of mental/cognitive domain and under-stimulation of physical, emotional and social domains, and

Learn 8 accessible yoga and mindfulness tools to feel connected and engaged during distance learning.

Enter your info below to download the toolkit."

"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

You will need to share your email to download the guide.

This site has a series of pre-made free lesson plans that are ready to teach right away. MATH, ELA, SCIENCE, SEL, CAREER, ART, DIGITAL LITERACY, TECH, STEM

They have clips of popular movies and TV shows built right in - and you are allowed to use them bc the site is made by AT
&T and Warner Bros.

"The Achievery helps connect students to a new world of digital learning through stories that spark curiosity and content that entertains as well as teaches."

Don't miss checking this one out! You can use the filters to find exactly what you need.

You will have to sign up to access the lessons but it's totally worth it.

March 2020: Daily actions to help you be more mindful and live in the moment.

Calm Kids plants seeds of mindfulness for a life balance, confidence, and calm. This site offers videos that introduce students of all ages to the concepts of using meditation, mindfulness and breathing exercises to improve concentration and their sense of calm.

This amazing collection of activities includes boards for:
*Math
*Lego at home
*Cardboard STEAM
*Unplugged Coding
*Video call challenges
*Icebreakers
*ELA
*Mindfulness
*Rain day STEM
*Rock, paper, scissors
*STEAM challenges for home and school
*Outside STEAM
*Winter STEAM

Introduce core SEL competencies to teach students how to practice compassion and empathy, identify emotions, and exercise growth mindset.

Compassion is an important social-emotional skill that begins to develop in early childhood and is essential for lifelong health and success. Learning compassion increases a student's sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. By developing empathy in children, educators lay the groundwork for long-term understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom(opens in new tab) and in life. Compassion education is important(opens in new tab) because it helps to build key social-emotional learning competencies, such as:

- development of the understanding of self
- social awareness, and
- relationship skills

With interactive online activities and robust offline lesson plans, The Compassion Project provides invaluable resources for teaching empathy in the classroom. The Lower Elementary Compassion Course has three online lessons; Compassion Playground, EmpathEyes, and Mindful Maze.

Sun West School Division: To access The Compassion Project: Lower Elementary, log into EVERFI through your clever account.

There are a series of videos for movement, brain breaks, yoga, and energizing breaks with younger kids!

There are videos for:
Movement & Yoga
Mindfulness
Relaxation
Energy
Brain Breaks
Dancing

Explore moods and emotions using drawing and creativity!  These mindful moodles will help students get in touch with their emotions. Thank you to Smiling Mind for the these great materials. 

"Developed by Smiling Mind psychologists in collaboration with Dulux colour experts and Aussie educators, this Toolkit is a guidebook to help whole-school communities imagine and create healthier places to live, play, work and learn."

Social and emotional skills development is quickly taking center stage alongside cognitive skills, technical skills, and content knowledge in both the classroom and the workforce. Use this path to learn the fundamentals of how technology helps support social emotional learning in the classroom. Creating a strong community begins with mindfulness. It continues by supporting students through the use of social emotional learning techniques. Flipgrid helps engage students in meaningful ways through reflection activities. Lastly, we tie it all together by empowering educators in the hybrid classroom environment.
The course offers an overview of now various Microsoft products can assist teachers in developing social and emotional skills in their students: Minecraft, Teams, Flipgrid, Sway, OneNote, Reflect.

This toolkit unpacks six specific, practical tools that can be used to share yoga and mindfulness with teens/adolescent students.

All six tools prioritize two important objectives:
- How to address common roadblocks that (seemingly) limit teens’ access to yoga and mindfulness, and
- How to liberate and affirm teens’ identities in yoga and mindfulness

Enter your email to download the toolkit.

"A family yoga practice can be a fun, dynamic way to enjoy moments together that turn into memories. Designed for families and groups of all ages, this 25-minute yoga practice features partner work and imaginative play while teaching the value of connectedness."

Interactive videos combine movement with mindfulness, helping kids center themselves for learning. The modules are short, making GoNoodle ideal for kids that need a quick energy boost through exercise.

Check out the GoNoodle app too!