WELLNESS ☮

Life can be stressful, especially at a busy middle school. Short brain breaks during work time have been shown to have real benefits. They reduce stress and frustration and increase attention and productivity.

If you feel like you are needing to take a moment please try out one of the recommended reads or resource links below to help you get back to a more relaxed and productive place.

Yoga At Your Desk

How to Deal with Stress

What’s Going On in This Picture?Intriguing Times images stripped of their captions -- and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

storycorps.org/stories/

Listened to a true story by the people of StoryCorps’.

There mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

This is done through recorded story telling, most of which are animated.

StoryCrops does this to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build the connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone’s story matters. At the same time, we are creating an invaluable archive for future generations.