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At the November 2019 Northern California Safe and Healthy Schools Conference at UC Berkeley, Niroga Program Managers Sam Weiss and Fatima Ahmed facilitated a session incorporating the theory and practice of Dynamic Mindfulness (DMind) to a standing room only crowd.

Janai Mestrovich (BS/MS, Family & Child Development), teacher and developer of 'Superkid Power' (Ashland, OR) passed this along to me regarding how she uses finger activated mood card to measure temperature and kid stress levels: 40 Pre-K children learned how to measure their stress level this morning by measuring hand temp. with mood cards. Blue, happy-peaceful-very calm; Green, calm; Red, tight muscles/upset; Black Tense/grit teeth. We chanted and drummed appropriately - tense drumming...

Picture this. Its 10:00 am and you have had to evacuate students from your class. There are posters on the floor, several of them ripped up. Pens and markers thrown across the room. You have one student, Carly, standing in front of you, with a chair raised over her head, threatening to throw it at you. Carly’s eyes are glazed over, she keeps calling you “mum” and you’re worried she is going to step onto a shard of your favourite coffee mug she broke a few minutes back. What are you going to...

A young man told clinical therapist Marissa Snoddy recently that when she calls him a leader, she got it all wrong. “He said, ‘I just came from Juvenile Hall,’ I’m not a leader.” But, she said, “We just kept giving him love. And we said, ‘You’re courageous for showing up and being here,’” The very fact that he was there, she explained, showed he was a leader. Snoddy related the anecdote recently for 80 people attending the Trauma and Learning Series launch led by Rising Youth for Social...

Hi does anyone already have a behaviour management policy that they use within their organisation or when they deliver partnership work (between youth services and schools)? Many thanks

We are starting a charter school that will be trauma informed. Kaleidoschool - Reaching the Multi-Faceted Brain. There are 5 members now on our development team, and we have been advised to hire a project manager to help us with our timeline. The problem is that we are all educators, and do not have enough money to do so at this point. Anyone know of a retired professional that might be willing to volunteer some time to help us? Could be an educational professional, business, or non-profit.

Thanks for sharing this article! I've heard different stories about inclusive education. For me, the main thing is that children receive high-quality knowledge and can feel free in society. Although, I think that it's never too late to study, and now I'm preparing for advanced training. I need to write personal statement and prepare other required documents. I hope to get a positive answer and again plunge into the world of knowledge.

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