Barefoot/Socks

Allowing the freedom of barefoot/socks (shoe's off)...

- creates a sense of comfort
- Provides pyschological safety
- Promotes calmness

Implementation

Overview

Allow students to take off shoes at their desk or at the door for the class period.
Expectations of where to put shoes, the optional aspect, and how to act during this timeframe must be addressed prior to starting.

Proactive Implementation

- Creating and establishing expectations that allow students the freedom to remove their shoes and clearly defining the guidelines for this practice is the proactive solution. Students may self regulate.

Responsive Implementation

- Responsively implementing no shoes may look like telling a particular student, group, or class to remove their shoes if they wish and allow them to reflect on how it feels or wait to process until a later time.

Connection

If the need is connection then the students may be prompted to take off their shoes/have the option to when they are working in groups.

Skills Training

If the need is skill building then they may teach other students about the benefits of taking their shoes off.

Awareness

If the need is awareness then students may complete a reflection to review how they feel when they use this intervention.

Emotional Regulation

If the need is regulation then students may be cued or self choosing when to implement this strategy as a regulation tool.

Consider Factors Prior to Start

Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships

Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology

Intensifying or Fading During

REMINDER

- Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
- After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.

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