Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life Soft skills are a combination of social skills, work habits, communication skills, character traits, and …
Taking a Break: Comprehension Guide
This comprehension guide is intended to improve student comprehension of restorative breaks (https://kevinplummerphd.com/restorative-breaks/). See Improving …
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Video: Supporting Trauma-impacted Students in the Classroom
This is presentation providing an excellent overview of how to support trauma-impacted students in the classroom. Please also refer to our Trauma-impacted students: …
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Fostering Resilience in Children
Welcome to this series on fostering resilience in children—the role of the family. In this series, you will have a chance to understand how a compassionate family …
Pandemic Trauma in Students Returning to School Buildings
Some students will enter the school year more impacted by trauma. Some of these students were trauma-impacted before the pandemic and the circumstances created by the …
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Prepare Yourself for Your Return to School
Dealing With the Emotional Impact of the Pandemic on Educators and Returning Students We must give serious thought to the stress and the emotional impact that working …
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Supporting Trauma-impacted Students in School
This set of guidelines is organized into two major sections. The first section is a listing of dozens of supportive approaches. Following this list is a more thorough …
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Compassion Fatigue: Educator and Clinician Resilience Guide
Working in education (especially in therapeutic programs) will wear you down and wear you out unless you do something about it to ensure that, instead; working in …
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Teacher Attention Program
This is a "coupon program" designed to increase greater self-control in young students (ages 6-12) who are in the habit of seeking too much teacher attention, may be …
Teachers of the Pandemic
Teaching during this pandemic has been an arduous challenge for so many reasons that could not have been fully anticipated, but teachers have refused to back down or …
Paths to Leadership
There are many "unofficial" leaders in a school building and sometimes there are "official" leaders who lack leadership legitimacy. All teachers must be leaders in …
Compassion Fatigue and Resilience With Staff in Therapeutic Program
Almost anyone can learn the methods associated with the Brain Based Therapeutic Intervention Program for Children (BBTIPC), but what people underestimate is how much …
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