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EdRev Expo Workshop: Mindful Games & Activities: Developing a Mindfulness Practice for Students with Learning Differences [presentation]

“Mindfulness is a form of attention or awareness training that can be applied in any activity throughout the day- seeing, hearing, walking, eating, playing and homework. Its purpose is to increase self awareness, emotional balance, impulse control and overall focus.” Read more >>

EdRev Expo 2018 Workshop: Get Your Calm On—Move Free & Express Your Stress [presentation]

Pam Lozoff, MSW, RYT, Spirit of Youth Yoga Project Director discusses how yoga, breathing, and self-calming techniques can help children reduce their stress levels, learn to self-soothe, and be better equipped to regulate their emotions and behavior. Read more >>

EdRev Expo 2018 Workshop: Dyslexia Rules! [presentation]

Makayla Halbower, a student herself, and author of a book called Dyslexia Rules!, shares her journey in navigating life with learning differences beginning in first grade to the present (6th grade), including her ups and downs along the way. Read more >>

EdRev Expo 2018 Workshop: ADHD & Technology—How Do They Mix? [presentation]

It’s no secret that kids are spending more and more time with technology. Many kids have complex digital lives. If your child has ADHD, you may wonder what impact that might have on their use of social media. Read more >>

Helping Students Face Their Fears

National data indicates that about one-third of teenagers will experience an anxiety disorder, with 8 percent seriously impaired. Research and anecdotal evidence suggest that these numbers, higher than in decades past, reflect a real increase, not just a rise in Read more >>

Positive Things You Should Be Saying to Your Child

There are days (okay, maybe a lot of days) where we feel like we’re constantly saying “don’t” and “no.” It’s our job as parents to set and enforce boundaries and to keep our children safe. Our children also need to Read more >>

3 Mindful Breathing Activities for Classroom Transition

Mindful Schools began in a classroom at Emerson Elementary School in Oakland, CA in 2007 when a small team assembled their collective experience in education, social justice, and mindfulness. The program is founded on the belief that mindfulness provides young Read more >>

Modeling Assertiveness with Students

Assertive communication is a hard skill to learn. Our culture tends to reward aggression. Putdowns are framed as humor in cartoons and sitcoms, and the internet can be a platform for bullying. It’s hard to find examples of assertiveness in Read more >>

Research: Learning to Self-Manage

The ability to exercise self-control — even with a specific, self-imposed goal in mind — is tough, even as it develops with age. New research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education illustrates just how precarious willpower can be for Read more >>

How to Teach Frustration Tolerance to Kids

Many young children struggle with frustration tolerance. Anger and frustration are powerful emotions, and children’s reactions can be intense in the moment. As adults, we know when our anger buttons are pushed. We know what we need to do to Read more >>

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