We provide professional development and self-care strategies via adult Brain Breaks, trainings and webinars. We also offer ongoing support for our partner districts and organizations. Continuing ed unit opportunities available.
We provide a range of free classroom resources that include learner Brain Breaks, health & wellness curricula, and Virtual PE. Our mission is to promote social, emotional, and academic development for all learners.
We know that dozens of guidance documents call for focusing on educator and student well-being. So we are hosting a free series, Train the Trainer, for any and all educators. In this 4-part interactive series, participants will learn how to use our turn-key decks to support educators in their schools or districts.
This 90-minute, interactive session will explore the neuroscience of stress and its impact on the body. We will share how to develop resilience through the practice of simple strategies.
This one-hour, interactive session will explore the neuroscience of stress and its impact on the body. Simple strategies for building resilience will be shared.
Learn to implement the Pure Power mini-unit, A Peek Inside the Amazing Brain, for grades 3-5 in this interactive session.
Learn to implement the Pure Power mini-unit, A Peek Inside the Amazing Brain, for grades K-2 in this interactive session.
Session 3: ESC & Social Awareness
Session 4: ESC & Relationship Skills
Session 5: ESC & Responsible Decision Making
Dr. Mark Greenberg, Dorothy Morelli, Denine Parks-Goolsby, and Dr. Joseph Gerics
As educators, our lives have been forever changed. We have all experienced trauma in some form. As schools begin to make plans for reopening, it is imperative that we address the effect of this pandemic experience not only for our students, but also for the adults who work with them. This webinar will discuss ideas about how schools can begin to rebuild a sense of community including exploring adult social and emotional needs, collaborating on strategies to build caring connections with our students and colleagues.
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, as he shares how we can all be compassionate emotion scientists in these challenging times. Read his latest articles.
Join our two award-winning mindful educators who have successfully implemented mindfulness and well-being into their school programs. Meet the educators who continually build student agency though their creativity and dedication. Learn how they have created virtual SEL sessions & mentored the team of NuYu!
In this session, develop an understanding of the nervous system to help manage physical health and emotions.
Join our expert panelists, Dr. Victor Carrion and Teri Lawler, who will answer your questions about stress and anxiety in the context of trauma-informed care.
We’ve read your feedback and are excited to announce the Ask Us series. Join us and ask our panelists, Dr. Dawn Brooks-DeCosta and Principal Kennard Branch, implementation questions related to SEL and technology.
There have been several national guidance documents for the safe return to school. One consistent message is that supporting the social and emotional needs of learners and educators should be a central focus. Join us for a noontime conversation as we share our contextual definition of SEL competencies, as well as examples from the field and practical strategies for implementation.
Learn how health and wellness practices help us develop positive mental and emotional states.
You’ve asked for a deeper dive into the MindUP program. Please join the MindUP team for a special one-hour webinar! You’ll gain an understanding of the basic structure of the research-based program MindUP and access to easy tools for teachers and parents to use at home.
This special Mental Health Awareness Month self-care series for mental health providers will offer experiential sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based MHPs as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day.
We know that balancing the needs of online instruction and planning for a return in the fall is challenging. We have planned this series to help you build knowledge, self-care, and social-emotional learning skills into your online and in-person classes.
Session 1: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) & Self-Care
Session 2: Respond vs. React: Super Powers
Session 3: Stress & Allostatic Load ]
Session 4: The Neuroscience of Stress, Part 1
Session 5: The Neuroscience of Stress, Part 2
Session 6: Neuroplasticity ]
Session 7: Creating Healthy Habits
Session 8: Taking in the Good
Session 9: Six Critical Healing Factors
Session 10: Building Belonging – Emotion & Cognition
Session 11: Brain Breaks Implementation
Session 12: Culture of Care Implementation
Discover how to more accurately assess situations, tackle complex problems, empathize, and self-regulate.
This special Mental Health Awareness Month self-care series for mental health providers will offer experiential sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based MHPs as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day.
This series will focus on implementation of Brain Breaks for learners grades 6-12 and their teachers. This 30-minute session focuses on Rest.
Building on the work of CASEL, Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens (Markowitz and Bouffard, 2020) provides a roadmap for K-12 classroom teachers and university teacher educators to address issues of equity by integrating social-emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching in support of academic achievement and the well-being of students and educators.
This series will focus on implementation of Brain Breaks for learners grades 6-12 and their teachers. This 30-minute session focuses on Standing.
(ASL Interpreter / Side by Side screen available for all participants) * Join a panel of Student Support Services experts: Chandrai Jackson-Saunders, NASP School Psychologist of the Year 2020; Joseph Batiano, RI School Counselor of the Year 2018; & Rachel Webb, School Social Worker Sacramento City USD; facilitated by Chi Kim. These incredible educators will engage in an important discussion regarding student support services and providing equitable access via tele-service. Learn some of their thoughtful techniques used to provide student support services during this time of physical distancing. They will also share some of the roses and thorns that virtual school has posed as well as share what they foresee as critical needs as schools plan to re-open in the fall.
This 4-week series designed for the Delaware Department of Education will involve 45 minutes of online instruction and a 15-minute weekly homework assignment using the Headspace app. The sessions are designed to move your personal practice to the next level. Participants will apply focused awareness to building safe and supportive relationships, strengthening co-regulation with others, and building interaction skills that support social competence and academic success.
This session will explore how the brain forms habits, along with constructive ways to deal with anger.