Resources

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Stay grounded, listen with empathy, and respond with flexibility. Use this 5-step approach to keep interactions calm, supportive, and focused on relationship-building.

These cards promote conversations about being mindful throughout life.

For use with the breathing board resources

Para usar con los recursos del tablero de respiración

This icon-focused plan encourages students of all abilities to identify emotions and the tools to return to a regulated state. This plan provides a template for adults to engage students in discussions about different feelings and ways to regulate unwanted or uncomfortable emotions.

This resource can help facilitate morning meeting conversations, enhance social-emotional learning, or practice peer social skills.

This worksheet packet is designed to help preschoolers identify and express their emotions by circling images that match how certain things make them feel. Each page focuses on different emotions, such as happy, sad, or excited, allowing children to connect visuals with their own experiences.

This two-piece puzzle helps preschoolers explore and identify different feelings through matching either an expression and a word or matching two identical expressions. There are various support levels, depending on student needs.

'Getting it Together!' is a student-focused tool to guide thoughts following a problem with staff or a peer that may require a restorative conversation to resolve the issue and repair the school community.

Identify Feelings is an interactive resource that helps early learners recognize and name emotions by pairing relatable images with simple feelings words. It fosters emotional awareness, vocabulary development, and empathy, supporting children in understanding their own feelings and those of others.

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.

This tool allows students to review what will happen in their restorative circle before it begins. Providing advanced notice of what to expect and coaching socially appropriate responses helps reduce anxiety for some students.

My Circle Rules offers three different versions, allowing staff to choose a tool that fits the needs of their students for learning restorative circle rules.

To understand the few instances when intensive behavioral interventions may be warranted, here are five specific definitions that outline the legal statutes and minimum standards that must be applied before engaging in Restraint and Time-Out (RTO)

This icon-focused plan encourages students of all abilities to identify emotions and tools to return to a regulated state.

Este plan de iconos anima a los
estudiantes de todas las habilidades a identificar emociones y medios para volver a un estado calmado.

This resource is a strategy to help students practice positive self-talk.

The Sensation poster is a visual for helping students grow their sensation vocabulary list.

This handout will give staff a snapshot of what students may be experiencing and feeling based on observed behaviors.

This document has six apps that teens can download that will help with coping and emotional regulation.

Regulation skills like working towards a goal, coping with change, or recognizing your feelings, help you manage your emotions, reactions, and behaviors in a healthy way, even in difficult situations. Developing these skills is especially important as you navigate new challenges as you continue to grow and mature.

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.

La Hoja De Reflexión ofrece varias actividades diseñadas para que los estudiantes se centren en las
emociones corporales que fueron alteradas durante un período
agitado. Estas actividades ayudan a los estudiantes a identificar las sensaciones y sentimientos que pueden haber experimentado, y también, ayudan a identificar estrategias para autorregularse por si experimentan sensaciones similares
en el futuro.

Visual Pacing Strips are flexible tools that allow adults to control the visual progression of time-based on student response or age and vary accordingly. They are effective for class-wide application and as a layer of additional support for individual students.

The When I Feel... I Can Try... strategy offers images for students to focus on to help re-frame negative thoughts into positive feelings.