All Practices
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Making Families Feel Welcome
Simple ways for teachers, principals, and staff members to help families of all backgrounds feel welcome in the school community
Take-Home Skill: Gratitude Questions for Kids
Discussion questions for families to deepen their child’s experience of gratitude
Take-Home Skill: Deliberate Practice for Students
Strategies for parents and caregivers that teach their children how to practice to help them achieve their goals
Listening to Music Mindfully
Students listen to a song or piece of music and observe their responses.
Finger Tracing: Mindful Breathing for Students
Students track their breathing as they trace up and down the fingers of one hand.
Loving-Kindness Buddy Wishes
Students extend kindness to themselves and others.
Flow and Tell
In this circle activity, students practice mindful speaking and mindful listening.
Shake It Off
Students observe their breath while relaxing and tensing their bodies, and then practice shaking and freezing their bodies.
Drawing as a Way to Manage Emotions
Students experience drawing as a strategy that can help shift unpleasant emotions to calmer, more pleasant ones.
Contemplative Writing
Students explore their thoughts, emotions, or ideas by freewriting on a topic of their choosing, an academic-related question, or an ethical dilemma.
Barefoot Walk: A Mindful Movement Practice
Students feel the earth under their feet in this mindful movement practice.
Wishes for the World: A Loving-kindness Activity
Students send kindness and good wishes to others.
Fostering Empathy Through Literature (Elementary Level)
A list of discussion questions to help cultivate students’ empathy.
Reducing Test Anxiety Through Art
Help students calm themselves through a short coloring exercise.
2 x 10: Getting to Know A Student
Build positive relationships with students in 2 minutes a day.
Helping Students to Do Better Next Time
Students brainstorm ways to self-correct after saying or doing the wrong thing.
Dialogue Journals for Elementary Students
Teachers and students converse with each other through letter writing.
Gratitude for Our Food
Students express gratitude towards the many people whose efforts have brought them food.
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