Based upon your observations and experience in your classroom and school what are your ideas for improving mental wellness for your students? For your fellow educators? For yourself?
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Teacher
Get back to basics!High expectations, discipline, attendance policies, and cell phone policies make for a good learning environment. Let teachers teach! We have too many students and too many responsibilities other than teaching. Support teachers with difficult parents and
expect parents to do their part.
Kids need boundaries! That’s what makes them feel secure. Structure and discipline is SEL!
When you have a calm and supportive classroom, kids learn and teachers are happy.
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Teacher
The job should not be TOO hard. With added stress and unreasonable, unsustainable workloads, teachers get burnt out. If a teacher is not in the best mental state, it trickles down to the students. It’s extremely important to suppport our classrooms with necessary staff. Cotaught classrooms need to be supported and we need more of them.
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Peter B.
Moderator Pick
More movement
My latest challenge is not with the little people, but from the adults in my district. The Administration of Longmeadow Public Schools recently imparted a directive for all PE teachers to be certified in Health/Family and Consumer Sciences in order to now teach PE/Health and SEL. We were presented a Notice of transfer and change in certification. Not only was this a shocker to everyone, but it was all supposed to happen by the end of 23/24.
K-5 S's have PE 2X/wk for a total of 90 min., well short of the recommended 150 min/wk in…
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Priority
Everyone talks about mental health and recognizes the need to address it We need action, not just more lip service- across all age spans
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Peter F.
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The Intersection of SEL, Mental Health, and Mindfulness
I began incorporating Mindfulness practices into my high school classroom nearly 10 years ago. In that time the practice has become a daily occurrence for all classes, and how we begin class each day. In the past two years, the focus has broadened to embrace SEL and Mental Health concepts, particularly incorporating Zones of Regulation into our discussions. This intersection is important, as all three concepts (SEL/MH/Mindfulness) work hand in hand. As a certified Mindfulness Instructor, I have also been working with district faculty in incorporating these concepts into classrooms/buildings, as well as developing faculty-focused PD.
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