Helping Your Student Be Successful
MindsetDeveloping a healthy mindset and positive self-talk is a critical part of being a successful learner.
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Self-RegulationStudents with better self-regulation skills have higher academic achievement and are more likely to get along with others and have strong relationships.
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MindfulnessMind Yeti is based on mindfulness, which is proven by science to strengthen our ability to focus, regulate our emotions and even feel gratitude. Listen to Mind Yeti in the classroom or at home.
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Resources
The Power of Belief -- Mindset and Success When students or adults see their abilities as fixed, whether they think they're naturals or just not built for a certain domain, they avoid challenge and lose interest when things get hard. Conversely, when they understand that abilities are developed, they more readily adopt learning-oriented behaviors such as deliberate practice and grit that enable them to achieve their goals.
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How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a LifetimePediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
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Why Aren't We Teaching You Mindfulness?In this powerful talk, an instructor bringing mindfulness to schools shares her research into how mindfulness can set us up for success and break cycles of transgenerational trauma. "Mindfulness can give us space between our thoughts, emotions and actions. We can practice self-control, which is one the single most important factors of success."
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American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement
The American Academy of Pediatrics released a groundbreaking position statement that highlights effective discipline strategies to raise healthy children. This policy statement looks at over 20 years of research on child development. "Aversive disciplinary strategies, including all forms of corporal punishment and yelling at or shaming children, are minimally effective in the short-term and not effective in the long-term. With new evidence, researchers link corporal punishment to an increased risk of negative behavioral, cognitive, psychosocial, and emotional outcomes for children."
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