Resources
A variety of resources compiled by the Student Services Team and various individuals in CESD.
Central Alberta Regional Collaborative Service Delivery Toolbox
Central Alberta Regional Collaborative Service Delivery (CARCSD) is a resource that helps supports teachers in creating calming environments and help support students with sensory needs. CARSD offers a SLP and OT toolbox. To find a strategy, find the area of need and...
CASEL
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. Our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of education from preschool through high school. CASEL and our broad network of collaborators are working...
Big Impact Academy – Responsible Leadership and Right Use of Power
Responsive Leadership operates within the scope of strengths and value based principles, providing a moral and ethical leadership foundation. The Right Use of Power is an ethical framework that helps leaders and practitioners identify and work with the inherent power...
ASCD: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Interested in learning more about a topic in education? Gain insight, enhance your skills, and build your capacity with ASCD resources that keep the needs of the whole child in mind and connect the specific challenges of today's schools and classrooms with proven...
Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
ARACY provides Australia’s first evidence-based framework for national child and youth wellbeing (0-24), The Nest Action Agenda. Developed through extensive consultation with over 3,700 children, young people and adults and 150 consultation partners with research and...
Anxiety Clinic of Central Alberta
Description of Services: Anxiety counselling services offered. Specializing in the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and anxiety-related concerns. Dr. Bonnie Moshenko-Mitchell and Dr. Kim Stevenson, Registered psychologists T:...
Anxiety BC
Anxiety BC promotes awareness of anxiety disorders and increase access to proven resources.
Berenstein Bears – Friendship
Locally developed by the Youth Empowerment and Support team, the program is designed to help teach grade one students about sharing, manners, healthy eating, helping others and the importance of outside play.
BOKS Program
Free American program schools can use to enhance SEL Focuses on boosting physical activity Helps students feel included Builds a community of respect BOKS Mission Statement To empower school communities to improve our children physically, mentally, and socially by...
Brain Gym
Brain Gym is a series of quick, fun, and energizing activities. We utilize the Brain Gym® educational model to: promote play and the joy of learning draw out and honor innate intelligence build awareness regarding the value of movement in daily life emphasize the...
Restorative Justice
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...
GoZen Breathing
Videos and programs to manage stress and build resilience for kids
Hot Stuff to Help Kids
Written directly to kids in grades 4 to 12, of special interest to readers are the ways anger messes up their lives. Child psychologist Jerry Wilde discusses the causes of anger in relation to Rational Emotive Theory. Exercises in the books will help kids think...
Comprehensive School Health
Comprehensive school health is an internationally recognized approach to supporting improvements in students’ educational outcomes while addressing school health in a planned, integrated and holistic way. This whole-school model builds capacity to incorporate...
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
Resources for Filling Buckets 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...
21 simple ways you can support social-emotional learning for your students every day.
From We Are Teachers A fantastic set of ideas for integrating social-emotional learning and modeling each day in the classroom.
We Thinkers
The We Thinkers! series (formerly named The Incredible Flexible You) is a Social Thinking educational series that combines a social learning framework with music and dramatic play activities for early learners (ages 4-7). We Thinkers! Play GPS is a book that...
Zones of Regulation
The Zones of Regulation is a systematic, cognitive behavioral approach used to teach self-regulation by categorizing all the different ways we feel, and states of alertness we experience into four concrete colored zones. The Zones framework provides strategies to...