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Resource Suggestions5 Things
5 Things is a Mindfulness strategy that can connect students to their senses, centering the body and mind.
View PDFAnger Iceberg
The Iceberg worksheet helps give students a visual on what may be happening under the surface when they feel angry.
View PDFBehavior & the Brain
Behavior & the Brain highlights parts of the brain and their respective function.
View PDFBelly Breathing
Belly Breathing allows students to feel how their body is engaged when using relaxing breathing strategies.
View PDFBody Scan
A Body Scan is a perfect way for students to begin to pay attention to the sensations within their bodies. This document has a visual for students and a script for teachers.
View PDFBreathing Board
The Breathing Board handout provides an activity for youth to de-escalate. Print each board or all of the boards to support the student.
View PDFCandle Breathing
Candle Breathing is a strategy that gives students a visual to focus on while attempting to regulate through deep breaths.
View PDFCloud Watching
This poster can be used as a regulation strategy to teach students to reduce stress and reminds them to slow down and use their imagination to calm their bodies when anxious or dysregulated.
View PDFClues for Dysregulation
This resource provides adults with observable signs of dysregulation and strategies to regain student focus.
View PDFColor Breathing
Color Breathing is a visual strategy that can be quickly learned. This poster can help remind students to use their breathing as a simple, stress-reducing activity.
VIew PDFConversation Starters
This resource can help facilitate morning meeting conversations, enhance social-emotional learning, or practice peer social skills.
View PDFCreative Coloring
Coloring can help engage the brain without a lot of effort. When a student cannot focus,
coloring is a re-connection strategy.
Cup of Calm
The Cup of Calm helps students engage different senses to promote self-regulation.
View PDFDe-escalating Dangerous Behavior
These are strategies to help when attempting to de-escalate dangerous behaviors.
View PDFDistract Your Mind
Distract Your Mind Trace A Line is a strategy to actively refocus student attention from current stressors toward a busy activity requiring active motor skill coordination.
View PDFFigure 8
Figure 8 is a breathing strategy that can help students relax when they feel anxious or dysregulated.
View PDFGrowing Your Goals
The Growing Your…provides tips on what to say or do to facilitate growth in these areas.
View PDFGrowing Your Heart
The Growing Your…provides tips on what to say or do to facilitate growth in these areas.
View PDFGrowing Your Mind
The Growing Your…provides tips on what to say or do to facilitate growth in these areas.
View PDFGrowing Your Relationships
The Growing Your…provides tips on what to say or do to facilitate growth in these areas.
View PDFHow I Like to Regulate
Students may not be able to identify what they need to regulate when upset. This resource provides students with ideas of ways to regulate before becoming dysregulated. Staff then keep this resource available as a future reference for intervention.
View PDFHow To Help Me Regulate
This regulation visual is a reminder that children often need help with regulation before they will ever be able to reason.
View PDFI am Thankful for
Helping students recognize what they are thankful for will assist them in slowing down and focusing on the positive aspects of their life.
View PDFI feel...I will
This visual will help students learn the structure of I Statements, assisting them with how to phrase and share what they are feeling.
View PDFI get scared...
This worksheet helps students express what fears they may have. Allowing students to name what is scary opens the door to healing.
View PDFInterventions to Support Struggling Students
This visual will give educators a quick set of intervention tips for supporting a struggling student.
View PDFMindful Moments
Mindfulness is being fully aware of the moment-by-moment thoughts/feelings/actions in oneself. Teaching students mindfulness, a relaxation technique, enables them to have a positive mindset.
View PDFMy Journal
This packet is a social-emotional learning journal. Journal prompts are based on the Social Emotional Learning Standards for the State of Illinois.
View PDFMy Window
My Window is a poster to give students a visual to focus on while working on regulating their body.
View PDFMy Worry Is The Size Of...
Helping students identify the size of their worry can aid in expressing to others what is happening in their world.
View PDFOut of My Control
Students struggling with anxiety are often anxious about events in life that are out of their control. This activity allows students to articulate what's within their power and what's not so they understand their locus of control.
View PDFPhysical Sensations
This tool will assist a student in identifying sensations within their memories, emotions, and body. As a
student begins to recognize what is happening within their body, they can act on regulating those sensations or emotions. It gives students the visual opportunity to write in a sensation and connect it to experiences.
Postcard
This activity has been created for students to write a note to someone who makes them feel safe.
View PDFSay Something Positive
This resource is a strategy to help students practice positive self-talk.
View PDFSensations
The Sensation poster is a visual for helping students grow their sensation vocabulary list.
View PDFSensations Drive Behavior
This handout will give staff a snapshot of what students may be experiencing and feeling based on observed behaviors.
View PDFSigns of Distress
The Signs of Distress handout provides school staff with examples of physical signs that may indicate a student is in distress.
View PDFSupporting your Family
Supporting Your Family is specifically written to help know what to do when a family has a child
experiencing trauma and grief.
Teen Coping Apps
This document has six apps that teens can download that will help with coping and emotional regulation.
View PDFThink Sheet
Thinks Sheets are reflective activities designed to help students focus on their body sensations that occurred during a time of dysregulation. The activity helps a student to identify sensations and feelings they may have experienced and helps to identify strategies for self-regulation when experiencing similar sensations in the future.
View PDFTrauma is a Body Experience
This resource outlines strategies to support a child who has experienced trauma.
View PDfWhen I feel...
The When I Feel... I Can Try... strategy offers images for students to focus on to help re-frame negative thoughts into positive feelings.
View PDFWindow of Tolerance
The Window of Tolerance visual will remind educators how a student that has experienced trauma may have less tolerance than a student who has not experienced trauma.
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