When faced with a challenging and threatening situation (stressful events), your brain’s alarm system (the amygdala) kicks into gear, which is great when you need quick reactions but not so helpful when you need to think clearly and respond professionally. The good news? Your brain’s “wise leader” (the prefrontal cortex) can learn to step in and help you stay calm and focused.
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Being a Resilient Educator Working as a teacher, mental health practitioner, or administrator can be incredibly rewarding, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges. Whether it’s a tough day in the classroom, navigating tricky situations with colleagues or parents, having too much work to do, or even managing personal issues at home,
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Academic procrastination is a major obstacle to student success at school and really prevents young people from achieving their personal best.
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Social-emotional learning (SEL) can come across as insincere to students if their teachers are not practicing what they are teaching.
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In a fun-filled way, You Can Do It! Education’s Program Achieve Early Childhood program helps you prepare young children with the behaviours and ways to think that strengthen the social-emotional learning skills (SELs) that are essential for their wellbeing and to learn successfully. The 32 lessons in the program – your main teaching tool –
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Set the stage for social-emotional learning. For secondary students to be motivated to engage in social and emotional learning (SEL), the stage must be set before teaching and learning begins. From your side of the coin Four preconditions should be in place: The principal articulates to teachers, parents, and students how the school’s mission is
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Prepare students for social and emotional learning. For students to be motivated to learn about the social and emotional learning skills such as those taught in You Can Do It! Education and Program Achieve, you need to set the stage. You want students to appreciate the importance and benefit of learning about and applying the
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Since the brain is central to all learning, it makes sense to know how students’ brains learn best. In You Can Do It! Education, we support students’ mental development through brain-based, social-emotional learning activities. This leads to better engagement, effective learning, improved memory and application. Helping students, calm their amygdala and develop various prefrontal cortex
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Does everyone at your school need to contribute, or can critical mass be built by a few SELophiles? The evidence here is clear.
Every day, everyone needs to play a part.
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Social-emotional learning increases the likelihood of students’ sense of belonging and social and academic engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. These we teach in our Program Achieve curricula.
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Accepting Myself is an engaging self-acceptance student intervention program for students to learn a psychological superpower to feel worthwhile no matter what!
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