It is important to think about all of the things in our life that we can be grateful for. So often we tend to focus on the negative things in our life and forget about all the blessings we have each and every day. Our blessings do not need to be huge to make us appreciate our lives. They can be as small as: a smile from someone, hot chocolate, our pet greeting us at the door, a cozy blanket, a visit from a friend.
Focusing on the good things we have in our life, instead of the challenges we face, can change our perspective to being more positive. When we have a positive outlook on life, life is automatically better!
Some things we can do to help us see the positives in our life are:
- Write in a Gratitude Journal - Take a few minutes each day to write down 4 or 5 good things about your day.
- Write a letter - Think about someone who is important in your life. Write down all of the things that you appreciate about them. Then deliver the letter to that person and enjoy their reaction.
- Visit Someone you Appreciate – Spend some time with someone you like and let them know all the reasons why you like them.
- Use Your Manners – Being polite to others by saying “Thank you,” “Sorry,” “Your welcome” or “That was nice of you” can drastically change how others feel about you, and thus make you feel better about yourself. Being kind to others is as important as being kind to ourselves.
- Take a Gratitude Walk – Go for a walk and make a special effort to appreciate everything you see, hear, smell, taste and touch.

The following is a journal for gratitude. It can be printed off for students to fill out. It includes gratitude, happiness, being grateful, etc.

"This page pulls together lots of tools and resources to help you get the most out of Microsoft's inclusive tools for the classroom."

The High Way Home is an interactive website by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addiction. Students make choices about whether they would use alcohol or cannabis at a party and then plan for a way home.
The website offers a quiz at the end of the journey.

Immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention for all Indigenous peoples across Canada (available in some Indigenous languages). Toll-free: 1-855-242-3310.

Phone and chat counselling is available in English and French. On request, phone counselling is also available in:
Cree
Ojibway
Inuktitut

The purpose of us feeling anxiety in our bodies is so that we will ‘DO SOMETHING’ to try to eliminate the event, situation or thing that we are worried about. This is a primitive and basic survival instinct that we still have deeply embedded in our brains. The problem is…we don’t need to run away from saber tooth tigers anymore!

However, instead of having the idea of “I need to get rid of this feeling” we need to change it to “whatever is happening right at this moment, I CAN HANDLE that.”

What we need to do is learn about anxiety and how it works in our bodies and then break anxiety down into small pieces, and take it step by step. It may start with learning about how anxiety works and feels in our bodies; the sensations we get from anxiety. Starting with what happens in our brain and body when we are anxious. Then we need to learn what we can do with those sensations to lessen them and our anxiety. Then we work on our anxious thoughts and work to change the dialogue we have in our heads about anxiety. Essentially we break anxiety down into small chewable bites. This is in order to give you some success.

CoordiKids is happy to offer the series of downloadable tools for teachers: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum for teaching self-regulation to children.

How Do You Feel? is a curriculum designed for elementary school teachers. The kit is geared toward helping children ranging in ages from 4-12.

What’s Included: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum from CoordiKids
- The “How Do You Feel?” Chart
- 6 Lesson Plans
- Visual Aids
- Worksheets
- And more!

By clicking on the "Home" tab, you will also find:
- Home Course
- Preschool Course
- Classroom Brain Break Course
- Homeschool Brain Break Course
- Master Classes
- Starter Packs (Sensory Processing and Dyspraxia)

This is a cheat sheet on how to access CLEVER for student support teachers.

During the 2019-2020 Professional Learning Communities in Sun West, the Early Learning/Phonological Awareness PLC created this recourse to help Teachers in their ELA programming with an overview of learning to read.
This continuum may also be helpful to parents, Educational Assistants, and other people in a student's educational team!

I Am Stronger is an initiative designed to stop the activities of bullying and cyber-bullying. This is done through awareness and education around cyber safety, the effects of bullying, and supporting youth-led initiatives.

I Am Stronger believes that the answers to solving the issues of bullying and cyber-bullying lie in the hearts and minds of those who experience it on a daily basis - the youth of today.

The Ministry of Education has partnered up with I Am Stronger to provide small grants of up to $1000 for youth-led initiatives to adress bullying and cyber-bullying within the province of Saskatchewan. The goal is to empower youth to take their ideas and turn them into positive action that can influence social change in schools, communities and online. The grant provides youth the opportunity to collaborate with others to find solutions to stop bullying, and then turn their ideas into action while inspiring others to do the same. We believe that together we can all make a difference.

Responsive Instruction Modules: Classroom Level Support
      Module 1: School-wide Planning - Making Supports and Services a Priority
      Module 2: Reading Instruction - Critical Elements
      Module 3: Instruction in Mathematics - Effective Instructional Practices
      Module 4: Written Expression - Effective Instructional Practices

Inclusive Education Modules
      Module 1: School-wide Planning - Making Supports and Services a Priority
      Module 2: Fostering Inclusion - Understanding the Classroom Teacher's Role
      Module 3: Instructional Support - Engaging Students and Classroom Teachers

Responsive Instruction Modules: Targeted/Group Approaches
      Module 1: Targeting Reading Instruction - Knowing Our Learners
      Module 2: Targeting Mathematics Instruction - Knowing Our Learners
      Module 3: Targeting Written Expression Instruction

Supporting Students with Intensive Needs in the Classroom
Intellectual Disability
Physical Health Impairment
Bipolar Depressive, Anxiety or Related Disorders
Substance Related or Addictive Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Orthopaedic Disabilities
Neurodevelopmental Disorder Associated with Prenatal Substance Exposure
Blind or Visually Impaired

"The Saskatchewan Ministry of Education is guided by a Student First approach in which students’ strengths, needs and interests are central to inclusive educational experiences for learning. Inclusive opportunities promote increased understanding and acceptance of diversity within the classroom, school and the community.

Inclusive education provides students with an opportunity to learn with age appropriate peers within schools in their home communities. An inclusive environment is welcoming and accepting of student interests, backgrounds and life experiences." (p. 2)

From the Government of Saskatchewan at Saskatchewan.ca

The Ministry of Education’s Student Achievement and Supports branch has developed Instructional Supports for Diverse Writers to support the ESSP’s At Grade Level in Reading, Writing and Math priority. The document focuses on instructional considerations, practices and strategies for students to develop and improve their writing skills. The intended audience for the document is the middle level (grades 4-9) classroom teacher.

The templates and worksheets in this customizable downloadable toolkit will help you build processes around two critical components of MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports): intervention planning and progress monitoring with data.

A Multi-Tiered Systems of Support is the delivery system for evidence-based instruction. Use these pre-created slides (with speaker notes) to support professional learning in your board or school. The presentation outlines key elements of MTSS.

Note that this resource is a Google Drive folder set to “view only.” To adapt the slides to meet your own students’ needs, please make a copy to your own Google Drive so you can modify (File > Make a copy > Entire presentation).

This website is a helpline for kids. It includes:
-Getting help via call, text, live chat and from resources
- Info on the following:
-Emotional well being
-Bullying and abuse
-School and work
-Sex and relationships
-Friends and family
-Identity
-Physical Health
-Tools and games

Learn about the brain, what alcohol does to it, and what it does to you.
This site discourages underage drinking.
There are resources for parents, teachers and kids to use!