Dear Teachers,

Please use the resources below for you and/or your students. Most importantly, always remember that:

• Building Your Resilience

• 33 Strategies for Fostering Strong Teacher-Student Relationships

• Rock Digi  -uses music to teach social emotional learning and life skills for success in an effort to prevent bullying and drug and alcohol abuse

• Let's Build a Digital Global Neighborhood!

• Animated storybooks for your classroom. Teachers can get their first year free!: Vooks

• eSpark Learning

• Mindfulschools.org

• Breathe for Change -Free wellness resources

• CASEL: SEL Implementation Tools and Resources

• Anywhere Math -Math videos that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.

• Smithsonian Open Access

• Audible, an Amazon company. For as long as schools are closed, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. Explore the collection, select a title and start listening!

• TEAMology -Here's a fun activity: Have your students complete the attached "Heart Cutouts for the Community" to write positive messages of hope and happiness for those that need it most! They can write thank-you notes, draw pictures, etc. Then, send them to a friend, family member, community member, or post them on your windows at home:)

• Captain Compassion -bullying prevention resource (affiliated with Second Step).

• edmentum -Free resources to continue learning during New Jersey school closures

• The New Jersey Department of Children and Families has created a mindfulness webpage for staff that includes links to various resources such as webinars and reading materials focused on resilience and healing. Please find below some links that may be helpful:

  • A Psychologist Explains the Power of Affirmations

  • Build Your Resilience in the Face of a Crisis by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Moses Mohan March 19, 2020

  • What Is Resilience? By Kendra Cherry Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW, November 27, 2019

  • Building resilience in ourselves and our children by Parenting Now! For the Register-Guard, Posted Mar 30, 2020

  • 9 Essential Skills That Make You Resilient, Everyday Health, By Amit Sood, MD and Medically Reviewed by Allison Young, MD, Last updated on September 17, 2019

  • Unleashing the Power of Resiliency: The Teacher’s Super Power, By ASCD Guest Blogger, October 6, 2015

• CASEL Resources

• Self-Care for Educators Facebook Group

• Mindfulness:

  • 4 Weeks Free of Mindfulness & Meditation Practices

  • Virtual Calming Room

  • Summer Heat Link to Mindfulness Presentation with Resources

  • Change to Chill

  • Cosmic Kids Yoga

  • Mindful Minute

  • Go Noodle

  • Calm

  • Train Your Mind Lebron James (in Calm App)

  • Puppy Mind (book)

• Free Daily Check-Ins

• Morning Meeting