My Life Rulz builds a healthy mind and can be grasped by children of all ages, cultures and aptitudes. Using a variety of media presentations this is encapsulated common sense at its best; simple, comprehensive and profound and can be grasped in just minutes.
Brain Gym is a series of quick, fun, and energizing activities.
We utilize the Brain Gym® educational model to:
Restorative Justice in schools is a philosophy, set of principles and practices that help adults and young people in schools to both understand and respond to conflict.
A Restorative Circle is a community process for supporting those in conflict. It brings together the three parties to a conflict – those who have acted, those directly impacted and the wider community – within an intentional systemic context, to dialogue as equals.
http://safeandcaring.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Restorative-Justice-booklet-Web-version.pdf
http://martinbrokenleg.com/presentation-slides
For more information, refer to Martin Brokenleg’s book Reclaiming Youth at Risk
The concept of filling another’s bucket is a social-emotional metaphor. Our Student Services team have identified the following resources as being valuable for classrooms employing this concept.
This heartwarming book encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love by “filling buckets.”
A fantastic set of ideas for integrating social-emotional learning and modeling each day in the classroom.