Brain breaks that include movement allow learners to refresh their thinking and focus on learning new information.

Teaching students how to label, identify, and manage emotions helps them learn self-regulation skills.

Building positive and trusting relationships with learners allows them to feel safe; a sense of belonging; and that their academic, cognitive, and social and emotional needs are supported.

Research shows physical activity improves focus and creativity.

Maintaining consistent classroom routines and schedules ensures that students are able to trust and predict what will happen next.

Cards with strategies for managing emotions help students remember how to act when faced with strong feelings.

Teaching students how to label, identify, and manage emotions helps them learn Inhibition & Self-Regulation skills.

Writing freely about one's emotions about a specific activity, such as taking a test, can help students cope with negative Emotion, such as math anxiety.

Attributing results to controllable aspects (strategy and effort) fosters students' beliefs in self.

Having spaces where students can go supports self-regulation and individual deliberate practice.

Short breaks that include mindfulness quiet the brain to allow for improved thinking and emotional regulation.

Brain breaks that include movement allow learners to refresh their thinking and focus on learning new information.

When adolescents can connect and communicate with authentic audiences about their interests and values, reading and writing become more personally meaningful and relevant.

Students practice making and finding meaning in texts through book discussions moderated by teachers to varying degrees.

Journaling allows students to reflect on their thinking and feelings, process their learning, and connect new information to what they know, supporting their identity development and Sense of Belonging.

Through short but regular mindfulness activities, students develop their awareness and ability to focus.

When students reframe negative thoughts and tell themselves kind self-statements, they practice positive self-talk.

Using texts to discuss complex emotions and perspectives with students can help them see how they influence behavior and draw their own personal connections.