For the Teachers

The EAP is a no-cost benefit available to you and your immediate family members. The program is completely confidential. Through the EAP you have access to qualified and experienced mental health professionals who can assist you in dealing with a range of personal and work-related issues. The EAP is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

To get more information and resources visit Employee Assistance Program online or by phone: 866-486-4334

Username: douglas county sd

Password: eap

You may also want to check out the DCSD Employee Resource Page.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

At Arrowwood Elementry, we used Second Step as our evidence based SEL curriculum.

School-wide PBIS is a multi-tiered framework to make schools more effective places. It establishes a social culture and the behavior supports needed to improve social, emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes for all students.

Visit PBIS World for a variety of comprehensive and easy to use tier 1 through tier 3 PBIS (positive interventions and supports) tool and resource.

Mindfulness means paying full attention to something. It means slowing down to really notice what you're doing. Being mindful is the opposite of rushing or multitasking. When you're mindful, you're taking your time. You're focusing in a relaxed, easy way.

Check out the following resources for you and your students:

• DCSD employee is that you get free access to the premium versions of three award-winning meditation and mindfulness apps. Check them out!

• mindful.org

• Cosmic Kids

These are some of my favorite online learning communities and resources. Enjoy!

• Edutopia: Evidence and practitioner-based learning strategies that empower you to improve K-12 education.

• ASCD: Professional Learning and Community for Educators. Great Trainings!

• Teaching Tolerance: Free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. These resources include classroom lessons, webinars, grants, podcasts, policy guides and much more.