Start with the Heart: 6-8
Start with the Heart: 3-5
Start with the Heart: K-2
Start with the Heart: PreK
Five-Day Leadership Institute: Integrating Culturally Responsive & Affirming Social-Emotional Leadership
Description: Join award-winning NYC school principal Dawn Brooks DeCosta, Ed.D. as she leads you through Culturally Responsible & Affirming Social-Emotional Leadership (CRASEL). This institute is appropriate for all leaders who are seeking to go beyond the definitional work of “trauma-informed” and “cultural-relevance”. In this 12-hour course over 5 days, participants will engage in the following units of study:
Day 1: Self Awareness, Self-Care and a Racial Reflection
Day 2: Using Research-Based Practices in CRSE and SEL
Day 3: Cultivating a CRASEL Team & Creating a Vision for Racial Equity
Day 4: Social Justice and a Mindful School Culture
Day 5: Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric & The Standards for Leadership Practice Crosswalk
Start with the Heart: 9-12
Start with the Heart: 6-8
Start with the Heart: 3-5
Integrating Social, Emotional and Academic Success: A Comprehensive Approach Led by Dr. Victor Carrion, Stanford University
Are you planning for the full return to school and looking for ways to integrate a comprehensive approach to your SST (Student Success Team) process? Join the expert team from Stanford University who will share research, case study, and practical strategies for a plan that fits your school systems from Tier I, II, & III. Participants will learn how mindfulness, stress reduction, Cue Centered Therapy, and B2L aligns with school-based MTSS models.
Start with the Heart: K-2
Start with the Heart: PreK
Culture of Care, 4-Day Series July
Delaware Department of Education, in collaboration with Pure Edge, Inc., will host a four-part Culture of Care institute for educators and leaders. The Culture of Care training prepares educators to deliver breathing, mindful movement, and relaxation exercises in the classroom and to train colleagues to do the same. Participants in the training will learn and be able to communicate how this approach promotes social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom. In this virtual setting, each session includes a self-care practice for participants and time for Q&A and practical implementation strategies. The sessions are highly interactive and participants will practice teaching the exercises with colleagues. Participants will become familiar with the Pure Edge online resource library to support establishing a Culture of Care at their school site.
Building a Mindful Meditation Practice, 4-Day Series
Establishing a daily meditation practice does not have to be a struggle. We will start a little at a time in order to help build a sustainable practice. The most important thing to do is to just show up and start. Taking this attitude can help motivate you and provide the inspiration needed to carry your seated meditation practice forward. Practice can be done seated in a chair or on a cushion or on a pile of folded blankets, on the floor.
Well-Being Wednesdays in June
This Well-Being Wednesday series will offer experiential mindfulness-based sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based personnel as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day.
Mindful Mondays in June
This Mindful Monday series will offer experiential mindfulness-based sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based personnel as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day.
Incorporating Wall Space into a Mindful Practice
From opening the body to stabilizing a pose, there are many ways the wall can be a great support for Mindful Movement. It allows for exploration and deepening of poses and the best part, everyone has a wall at home! Join us for a 3-part series to learn how to reset your body at the wall.
5-Day Midday Reset
Join Gill for this series, which explains why a reset in the middle of your day improves concentration, mood, and focus. This session also offers simple strategies designed to offer a “pick-me-up” from your afternoon slump.
Well-Being Wednesdays in May
This Well-Being Wednesday series will offer experiential mindfulness-based sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based personnel as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day. Each session is 30 minutes. Please wear clothing suitable for light exercise. Closed captioning provided.
Mindful Mondays in May
Mindful Monday is a 30-minute, experiential mindfulness-based session designed to support the well-being of school-based personnel as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day. Closed captioning provided.
Exploring Movement for All Bodies
Movement and mental health are inextricably connected. For Mental Health Awareness Month, join certified personal trainer and trauma-informed fitness professional Aleksei Weaver for a series of 45-minute sessions that invite participants to move in support of body awareness, connection, and their unique needs. This movement-based series incorporates breathing strategies and is divided into standing (5/7), seated (5/14), and floor-based (5/21) sessions for accessibility. Closed captioning provided. Please wear clothing suitable for light exercise.
Rest and Reset (All Staff)
In this experiential session, we’ll guide you through breathing, movement, and rest strategies to help you reset and build resilience.
Purpose: A Series with Project Wayfinder
Brandy Arnold will present 3 lessons from Project Wayfinder‘s Purpose curriculum, which guides students to explore who they are and what matters to them so they can purposefully navigate their life ahead. The toolkits are designed for grades 10-12 and spread out over three years, focusing on Self, Others, and Action.
Using Our Online Resources to Implement with Students
How do I access the online resources? Where do I need to go to get the Brain Breaks that we just learned? How can I bring what I just learned into the schedule of the school day with my students, whether virtually or when we return to in-person classes? Let’s answer these questions and more to help the ongoing transitions happening at your school, district, and community-at-large. There will be 20-25 minutes of short user-friendly content and a 10-15 minute Q&A.
Culture of Care, Part 4 (Teachers & Administrators)
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 4 include: Building Belonging – Emotion & Cognition, Brain Breaks Implementation, and Culture of Care Implementation. This is a 3-hour session.
Well-Being Wednesdays in March
This Well-Being Wednesday series will offer experiential mindfulness-based sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based personnel as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day. Each session is 30 minutes. Please wear clothing suitable for light exercise. All live sessions will have ASL interpretation.
Fireside Chat with Tim Shriver
Chi Kim welcomes Tim Shriver for a Fireside Chat to discuss his new book, The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening.
Building Bonds & Reimagining Community for Asian Americans & African Americans
Join us for an SEL Day discussion with David Adams, Rachel Lei, and Chi Kim.
5-Day Reset: Revitalize with Rest
Often overlooked, rest is a key element of our well-being. Find a comfy seat and join Erin for experiential sessions that will provide pure rest and relaxation. You will leave the sessions feeling refreshed and ready to re-engage with your day.
5-Day Reset: Build Resilience by Taking a Breath
Did you know we can use our breath to impact how we feel? Join Gill for some interactive and informative sessions that show us why the way we breathe matters.
Building Belonging: A Series with Project Wayfinder
Feeling that we belong is foundational to living with purpose. Brandy Arnold will present 3 lessons from Project Wayfinder’s year-long Belonging curricula, which guide students to build meaningful, compassionate relationships with themselves, other people, and the wider world. The Belonging curriculum is suitable for 7th-10th graders.
Lessons are designed to support quick and easy implementation:
-Suitable to be taught as one-off lessons or as a yearlong program
-Each lesson is backed by evidence-based research and social science
-Extensive classroom tools to build a positive and safe classroom culture