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.
The Culture of Care series will help you build knowledge to integrate self-care and social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in your classes. Topics explored in Part 2 include: The Neuroscience of Stress and Neuroplasticity.
Join Dr. Jennings for this three-day series, as she takes us through her new book Teacher Burnout Turnaround Strategies for Empowered Educators. All sessions will be closed-captioned.
January 12 – Part I – Addressing Teacher Stress and Burnout
January 19 – Part II – Preparing for Transformative Change
January 26 – Part III – Empowering Teachers
The Culture of Care series will help you build knowledge to integrate self-care and social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in your classes. Topics explored in Part 1 include: SEL & Self-Care, Respond vs. React: Superpowers, and Stress & Allostatic Load.
Please join us Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for a 12-session series. We know that balancing the needs of online instruction and planning for a return in the fall is challenging. This series will help you build knowledge to integrate self-care and social-emotional learning skills into your online and in-person classes. Every session is free and live.
7/27 Session 1: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) & Self-Care
7/29 Session 2: Respond vs. React: Superpowers
7/31 Session 3: Stress & Allostatic Load
8/3 Session 4: The Neuroscience of Stress, Part 1
8/5 Session 5: The Neuroscience of Stress, Part 2
8/7 Session 6: Neuroplasticity
8/10 Session 7: Creating Healthy Habits
8/12 Session 8: Taking in the Good
8/14 Session 9: Six Critical Healing Factors
8/17 Session 10: Building Belonging – Emotion & Cognition
8/19 Session 11: Brain Breaks Implementation
8/21 Session 12: Culture of Care Implementation
Part 1: The Neuroscience of Stress & Educator Self-Care
This one-hour, 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.
Part 2: Self-Care & SEL
This one-hour, interactive session integrates self-care and the social-emotional learning competencies of self-awareness and self-management for adults. We will continue to focus on developing resilience through the practice of simple strategies.
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!
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.
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.