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!
There are calendars for activities for Elementary, Middle and High School students!
These include:
Question of the day
15 min activity
Something to share with families
Spirit week ideas
Minding Your Money: Skills for Life is a digital financial education course with four lessons that teach learners about navigating the various financial stages of life, identifying your financial values, understanding the relationship between finances and mental health, and how to develop healthy financial boundaries in relationships. Learners will understand how to develop financial stability. Finally, they will learn about how their financial values can influence their goals and behaviours. Includes SK curriculum connections, lesson plans, online interactive lesson bank, assessment keys for teachers and a teacher portal to manage grades and student work. LanguagesEnglish - US, Spanish - US, English - CA TopicFinancial Education, Health & Wellness Duration: 45 minutes
his toolkit has been designed to promote positive mental health practices and perspectives within the school environment. The toolkit was developed for the Pan- Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health by Dr. Patricia Peterson and Dr. Bill Morrison of the University of New Brunswick. The JCSH wishes to acknowledge the many professionals from each Canadian province and territory who provided assistance by participating as key informants and reviewers.
In the second edition of the Positive Mental Health Toolkit, the resource has been divided into a series of online modules, presenting information and materials that are manageable and user friendly. It is not necessary that you implement all modules of the PMH Toolkit or that you complete them in the sequence they are presented. We encourage you to take the time to explore each module and its written and video components. The toolkit has been updated to reflect recent Canadian research, and to identify promising practices occurring in diverse contexts across the country. In addition, the PMH Toolkit provides a means of measuring positive mental health practices, with results generating a series of individualized strategies for enhancing healthy school environments for students, educators and staff members. These assessment measures can be used in conjunction with the JCSH Healthy School Planner as a means of evaluating overall school environments.
The Positive Mental Health Toolkit consists of five modules:
• Module 1: Introduction to Positive Mental Health
• Module 2: School Connectedness
• Module 3: Resiliency in School Environments
• Module 4: School Team Relationships
• Module 5: Assessing Comprehensive School Health
This site offers toddler and preschool age ideas .
Preschool Inspirations offers movement aids in self-regulation and supports the brain to be in the optimal zone for learning. Not all families may be comfortable with yoga for their children so consider offering more than one option for movement to promote well-being and learning.
This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces SDG 3, Good Health and Well-Being. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.
Social-emotional learning (SEL) instruction in small groups can be a great way to build student belonging and community—while also teaching key skills and competencies that students may need additional support with.
This toolkit includes a set of 6 facilitation guides for small-group SEL activities—complete with “how to” instructions for educators. These low-lift strategies are designed to help promote positive relationships while building students’ SEL skills.
This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) discusses the physical effects of stress on the human body. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.
WE Schools @home offers free online tools and resources to complement and support at-home learning. Developed for Grades K through 12, this weekly lesson package includes interactive and experiential curriculum-based resources, materials and lesson plans with an emphasis on well-being, social and emotional learning, service-learning and fostering resiliency.
The Well-Being & Well-Becoming in Schools in Canada Research Initiative brings to you a collection of readings and resources that can help educators promote teacher and student mental health and well-being during the pandemic. In this page, you can also find helpful links to organizations and institutions which have also put similar initiatives in place, and the contacts of scholars who are willing to provide talks for professional development in the area of teacher and student well-being.