Educators First with Heidi Bornstein
Download Mindfulness Everyday Resource List in French
Focus on Teacher Wellness
Penguin Random House
Resources for Educators, Librarians, and Parents
https://www.rhteacherslibrarians.com/latest-buzz/updates-and-resources-for-educators/
Building Empathy With Books - Middle School (Penguin Random House)
https://images.randomhouse.com/promo_image/9781524720087_5243.pdf
School Mental Health Ontario
School Mental Health Ontario is a provincial implementation support team. We help school districts enhance student mental health through the use of evidence-based strategies and services.
https://smho-smso.ca/find-a-resource/
Learn More about Social-Emotional Learning
Social-emotional learning (SEL) helps students to develop the intra- and interpersonal skills they need to flourish throughout their life.
https://smho-smso.ca/educators/learn-more/explore-by-topic/social-emotional-learning/
Learn More about Mentally Healthy Schools and Classrooms
School and classroom environments have an important impact on a student’s sense of belonging and overall mental health. Maintaining positive relationships with students within a caring school community and safe, welcoming, inclusive classroom, contributes to students’ social-emotional wellness and readiness to learn.
https://smho-smso.ca/educators/learn-more/explore-by-topic/mentally-healthy-classrooms/
Everyday Mental Classroom Resource (K-8)
ducators have a very important role to play in promoting mental health and well-being at school. This resource is designed to support elementary educators (K-8) in this role by offering a repository of high-quality everyday mental health practices that can be easily incorporated into classroom routines. It is the result of a collaboration between the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and School Mental Health ASSIST, with evidence/review support from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Provincial System Support Program. The Everyday Mental Health Classroom Resource has been informed by evidence and co-created with practicing educators to ensure that it will meet the needs of busy educators.
https://smh-assist.ca/emhc/
The practices align with Ontario’s curriculum and are designed to help Catholic elementary teachers model and teach social-emotional skills and create and sustain mentally healthy classrooms. https://smho-smso.ca/fw/
SELSpace
A site created by educators for educators. A space to explore and find lessons and resources that support student Social and Emotional Learning. The question is no longer IF SEL improves academic performance, but rather HOW you are going to incorporate it into your teaching.
SELspace is divided into carefully considered modules to assist educators in integrating and addressing SEL (Social and Emotional Learning). Each module looks at essential knowledge and skills related to a student’s social and emotional well-being. The modules collectively support the goal of building a positive community within classrooms, schools, and the communities we live in.
Empowering Education Mindful Moments for Schools K-8
https://soundcloud.com/empoweringeducation-info
Playlist of guided practices that are suitable for both school and home
Myndful Movement Program with Deb Taylor
Educators Courses / Resource Material / Movement Videos
MYndful Movement includes: positive intentions set with calming breath-work, basic physiotherapy exercises, gentle stretch, Qigong, gentle toning movements to support your full body, strong mind.
Stressed Teens with Gina Biegel
https://www.stressedteens.com/
Stressed Teens offers online courses for teens, parents, educators and professionals, as well as resources.
Additionally, Stressed Teens has a free COVID-Toolbox Page and everything on that page is free and there are a myriad of audio mindfulness practices, downloadable mindfulness and stress reduction activities, and of course awesome self-care coloring pages. https://www.stressedteens.com/covid-19-tool-kit
All-School Program from Stressed Teens
(for Middle and High Schools)
https://www.stressedteens.com/
There is a new All-School, All-Community Mindfulness-Centered Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum that you can check out. There is a fee, but no one is turned away for lack of funding. The first lessons are up on the webpage check more out: https://www.stressedteens.com/all-school-program.
MINDFULNESS-CENTERED SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) CURRICULUM FOR TEENS, EDUCATORS, AND PARENTS
AN ALL-SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THE 2020-2021 SCHOOL YEAR
Link for video on 32-lesson https://vimeo.com/438397321 | Link to video for 16-mindful movement lesson https://vimeo.com/438392743
The Mindful Teen
http://mindfulnessforteens.com/
The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time by Dzung X. Vo
Being a teen can be really stressful! Mindfulness is a powerful way to handle stress, and live life more fully. This website provides information, tools, and resources to help you get started.
Downloable Guided Meditations (FREE): http://mindfulnessforteens.com/guided-meditations/
White Paper on Integrating Mindfulness Training in Education
White paper points to the benefits of providing mindfulness training to educators and provides recommendations for further research and implementation. Entitled Integrating Mindfulness Training into K-12 Education: Fostering the Resilience of Teachers and Students the paperwas published online March 2012 by Springer Science+Business Media.
To explore this important white paper further:
- Download the complete white paper (19 pages);
- Read the executive summary; or
- Read an interview transcript with lead author John Meiklejohn, LICSW.