If you need any additional or specific resources please feel free to contact me! The links for support resources are on the name of the sources.
ASCD Express: 5 Strategies for Teacher Self-Care
Mental Health First Aid: How to Care for Yourself While Practicing Physical Distancing
Stop, Breathe & Think: Stop, Breathe & Think for Educators
Corwin: The Distance Learning Playbook -Module 1: Take Care of Yourself
Employee Assistance Services for Education (EASE): Free confidential professional help for district employees and family members
Resilience During Crisis Module by Second Step® SEL for Adults: This module is designed to guide school communities in responding to events that cause extreme stress. It is available free of charge until December.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: Bandwidth Is the Key to Energy, Effectiveness, and Engagement
Mental Health First Aid: Four Tips to Help Manage Burnout
Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE): Relax, Recharge & Reflect
Employee Assistance Services for Education (EASE): Daily Activity Assessment
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work: Wellness Tips
Ready4K: SEL & Self-Care for Kids, Grown-Ups, and YOU
PsyCom: Self-Care 101
Mental Health First Aid: Tackle the Winter Blues with Mental Health First Aid
DMH + UCLA Wellbeing fo LA Learning Center: Resources & opportunities for support to frontline workers, county employees, school staff, and care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Share My Lesson: Health and wellness community resources
Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE): Being-Well Daily Positive Messages with LACOE
Google Arts & Culture: Art Coloring Book
Self-Care For Educators: This book reviews the importance of self-care, strategies, and resources
Winter Well-Being: Tips and research-based advice to help protect and nurture your well-being
TeachersConnect: A place to share your thoughts, ideas and experience with other teachers. The community thrives on the engagement and contributions of people like you
School Wellbeing Toolkit: Provides actionable steps educators can take in the classroom to address many of the most pressing concerns in our schools
Second Step: Free Live Webinars: Interested in putting Second Step to work for your students? Attend one of the Second Step sessions to hear directly from experts
Committee for Children: Social-Emotional Learning in Education Speakers Series. Includes recorded videos on various topics
Collaborative Classroom: Institutes, Virtual Workshops, Observation Days, and Webinars
Coursera: Coursera is teaming up with Disney and Pixar to celebrate the inspiring new movie Soul, and encourage everyone, everywhere to learn new skills, achieve new goals, and fulfill your dreams and ambitions!
Teachers College Columbia University: Free webinars on practical tools for Educators in uncertain times
** Additional resources throughout the website
Really Good Stuff: Social and emotional learning activities and products that help teach resilience, empathy, and positivity
Conga Kids: Dance Break!!: Promotes social-and-emotional wellness through social dance. Includes ten 10-minute, PE & VAPA standard-aligned lessons. Sign up to receive free access through 12/31/2020.
CASEL CARES: SEL Resources During COVID-19
Stop, Breathe & Think: Stop, Breathe & Think for Educators
Social Thinking: Includes deep executive functioning, self-regulation, and social emotional learning strategies
Amazing Educational Resources: Share educational resources and support each other as a community of educators. Includes a Social Emotional Learning category
Kahoot!: Explore Kahoot!’s collection of social and emotional learning (SEL) quizzes to strengthen kids’ self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, decision-making, and relationship skills.
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: Kindness in the Classroom® curriculum is a Tier 1 evidenced-based social emotional learning curriculum designed to help schools create a culture of kindness
Second Step Elementary Remote Class Meeting Guide: Contains general best-practices and class meeting activities that are easily adaptable to your specific remote learning needs
Start with Heart: Includes elementary classroom videos on social emotional learning and more
Collaborative Classroom: Reconnecting and Rebuilding Toolkit (K–6) focuses on helping classrooms, building relationships, supporting students, and reviving learning communities
Create CA: The Arts Education and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Framework
Second Step Community Rebuilding Unit: designed to support schools as they reopen after extended school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It aligns with the Second Step program but can also be used by any educator looking to foster a positive school or classroom community
Grab & Grow Courses: Free and paid courses for teachers. It's fast, high-impact, and easy to implement. Includes guidance on the biggest instructional challenges of the moment
Tumble Book Library: Web-based digital library that include books, videos, and games
PBIS Apps: Teach by Design
QuaverEd: Seriously fun education where music, technology, and creativity converge.
Mental Health First Aid: Five Ways You Can Help Youth Take Care of Their Mental Health When Going Back to School
Second Step: Anti-Racism and Anti-Bias Resources. A Focus on Transformative Social-Emotional Learning
Scholastic: How to Encourage a Growth Mindset in Students With Books
Solution Tree: How to respond when students disengage
California PBIS Coalition: Resources
Ready 4K: Includes everyday learning moments and insights for families and staff.
WETA: Coronavirus Multilingual Resources for Schools
Teaching Tolerance: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus
Second Step: COVID-19 Response Resources for Educators and Families
KQED: Four Core Priorities for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning
Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources for School Communities
World Health Organization: Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak
Resilience During Crisis Module by Second Step® SEL for Adults: This module is designed to guide school communities in responding to events that cause extreme stress. It is available free of charge until December
Frontline Education: Back to School Resource Center
EducationWeek: ‘Give Yourself Grace’ as You Teach Concurrently
TRAILS: Helpful Resources for COVID-19