Caring for students: belonging, mental health, co-regulation, grief, coping, transitions, and bullying.
Students who feel they belong, known, valued, and safe, engage more, behave better, and learn more.
Open workshop →WorkshopBullying harms learning, safety, and wellbeing, and it rarely stops on its own.
Open workshop →WorkshopTeachers are often the first to notice when a student is struggling.
Open workshop →WorkshopAt some point you will teach a student who has lost someone, and how you respond matters.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents, especially younger ones and those who have experienced stress, learn to regulate their emotions partly by borrowing a calm adult's regulation, co-regulation.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents often help each other in ways adults cannot, and structured peer support, buddies, mentors, peer helpers, builds belonging, develops the helpers, and extends support beyond what teachers alone can provide.
Open workshop →WorkshopSupporting student wellbeing is not only about addressing problems, it is also about actively building the positive: strengths, gratitude, positive relationships, meaning, and moments of joy.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents face real stress, and many have never been taught healthy ways to handle it.
Open workshop →WorkshopChange is hard, and students face a lot of it, new schools, new grades, new teachers, family changes, moving.
Open workshop →WorkshopResilience, the ability to cope with adversity and bounce back from setbacks, is not a fixed trait, it is built through relationships, skills, and experiences.
Open workshop →WorkshopDecades of research point to one of the most powerful protective factors in a child's life: at least one caring, consistent adult who knows and believes in them.
Open workshop →WorkshopConflict between students is inevitable, but how it is handled is not.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents who have a genuine voice in their learning and classroom, and real agency over meaningful choices, are more engaged, motivated, and invested.
Open workshop →WorkshopLearning and joy are not opposites, in fact, positive emotion fuels engagement, memory, and connection.
Open workshop →WorkshopHope is not just a feeling, it is a way of thinking, having goals, seeing pathways to reach them, and believing you can act on them.
Open workshop →WorkshopGratitude, genuinely noticing and appreciating the good in our lives, is one of the most well-researched contributors to wellbeing, and it can be cultivated.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents who see purpose in what they do, a reason that matters beyond the grade, are more motivated, resilient, and engaged.
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