Here is where you will find a recording of this webinar once we have finished editing and uploading it

Here is a link to the slideshow used during the Envisioning Well-being as a Practice in the English Classroom webinar to refer back to.

If you watch our Igniting and Assessing Students Oral Production in English Class webinar after the live presentation, please let us know you joined-in with our learning and share some feedback so we can stay connected. 

An Edutopia article with ideas and resources to create emotionally safe spaces in the classrooms while also recognizing when students need mental health help from outside sources.

A toolkit for secondary school stuff, sharing practical steps to promote and support mental health through everyday interactions with students. 

A website from George Mason University with practices and resources for teachers to use them at their own pace.

An article from Psychology Today on different types of wellbeing and benefits of wellbeing

The School Family Classroom Behavior Chart encourages lasting behavioral change by helping children choose acceptable behaviors instead of relying on a progression of prescriptive consequences. This download includes a full-color behavior chart and brief instructions for using it.

This is an adaptation of the “feelings wheel” that many therapists and educators use to help people learn to better recognize and name their emotions. This wheel is adapted to include common body-based expressions of emotions. 

A set of feelings and needs cards which consists of 4 different painting styles we offer the tool which may reach a much wider public, each painting style is a different language of communication.

Practices, Author’s blogs, and Resources to learn about feelings with children.

It allows students to create a customized avatar (students can choose from different cultural and ethnic representations, gender nonbinary options, and different mobility assistive and assistive technology devices). Pixton provides templates for SEL lesson ideas, such as “Coping with Anxiety” and “Asking for Help,” where students can role-play with their avatars.

A collection of open-ended drawing or drawing from prompts to explore imagination and creativity in the mind of students.

An automatic, fast, and easy way to create picture collages in less than a minute with just a few mouse clicks. Photos are automatically and intelligently placed using a very fast patent pending method. Use photos on your computer or from the web to make collages.

A free online puzzle game that allows you to build and play puzzles out of any image.

Definitions of the concepts of "calling out" or "calling in" and ways to implement them and respond to these ways to call people or groups in or out.

In this blog you’ll find the definitions of feelings and needs, a list of feelings for met and unmet needs, and links to other articles.

A service from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Education, provides resources for educators coping with mental health challenges in their classrooms.

A TED Talk by  Gemma Spadea, an 8th-grade student from Clinton Central School in the USA sharing some ideas on what schools can do to support students’ wellbeing.

The 5-4-3-2-1 method is a grounding exercise that can be done almost anywhere and it doesn't require any equipment or materials- just your brain! Take a few minutes to learn how to complete the exercise and then try it for yourself.  

The Five Ways to Wellbeing - researched and developed by the New Economics Foundation for the Department of Health and Social Care - are five simple things we can implement in our daily lives to improve our mental and physical wellbeing.

The Greater Good in Action website has a plethora of activities that can be done in the classroom. research suggests that gratitude journaling can help students become more satisfied with their school experience—which, in turn, helps them see school as more enjoyable, interesting, and educational, an attitude that sets them up for success inside and outside the classroom.