Social Emotional Learning
Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line - Every texter is connected with a Crisis Counselor, a real-life human being trained to bring texters from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening and collaborative problem solving. All of Crisis Text Line's Crisis Counselors are volunteers, donating their time to helping people in crisis. Please feel free to provide this resource: Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime, about any type of crisis.
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See these important tips to support your teen during this time.
Use these tips from the Center for Disease Control to talk to your child about their fears and concerns about the CoronaVirus. Here are more resources to explore:
Develop a schedule for each day with your student. Set goals for what you hope they will accomplish during the day. Check off the tasks as they are completed. Ask your child at the end of the day to reflect on what they have accomplished. Celebrate the accomplishments and set goals for the coming day. In this way, you are modeling for your child self-management and self-awareness, important social emotional learning skills.
Mindfulness for Middle Schoolers
Try these mindfulness activities with your middle schooler. Mindfulness is the state of being present, slowing down, and being self-aware.
Gratitude Curriculum for Middle & High Schoolers-Has MULTIPLE Activities!
Mindfulness for Middles Instructional Article: Getting Buy-In and Activities
“Release” – A Whirlwind of Daily Pressures: How Students Cope by Mindful Schools: Beginning discussion about anxiety followed by mindfulness explanation. Involves interviews with students discussing their anxiety, this could potentially be triggering to highly anxious kiddos.
Mindfulness for High Schoolers
Try these mindfulness activities with your high schooler. Mindfulness is the state of being present, slowing down, and being self-aware.
10 Minute Mindfulness Meditation: The Power of Community by Calm
Gratitude Curriculum for Middle & High Schoolers-Has MULTIPLE Activities!
An Experiment in Gratitude Use this as an intro to doing a gratitude practice with your teen!