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

Incorporating multiple senses with strategies like chewing gum, using a fidget, and sitting on a ball chair supports focus and Attention.

Using earplugs or headphones can increase focus and comfort.

When students monitor their comprehension, performance, and use of strategies when reading and writing, they build their Metacognition.

Research shows physical activity improves focus and creativity.

Checklists and rubrics help students understand expectations as they navigate more complex tasks and assignments.

Teachers can help students understand that learning involves effort, mistakes, and reflection by teaching them about their malleable brain and modeling their own learning process.

Family engagement happens when educators and schools collaborate with families to collectively support their child's learning in meaningful ways, both at school and at home.

Actively and authentically encouraging all students to seek support, ask questions, and advocate for what they believe in creates a safe space for risk-taking and skill development and supports a Sense of Belonging.

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

During guided inquiry, teachers foster student autonomy by designing lessons centered on meaningful questions in which students locate, analyze, and present relevant information on their own or in small groups.

In guided inquiry, teachers help students use their own language for constructing knowledge by active listening and questioning.

Thinking of and about patterns encourages learners to look for and understand the rules and relationships that are critical components of mathematical reasoning.

Sentence frames or stems provide language support for students' writing and participation in academic discussions.

Providing guiding prompts and questions for students to use when reading or participating in discussions deepens their understanding of texts and gives them space to question and grapple with issues of power, justice, and equity.

Instruction in multiple formats allows students to activate different cognitive skills and Background Knowledge that are necessary to remember procedural and content information.

Instruction in multiple formats allows students to activate different cognitive skills to understand and remember the steps they are to take in their math work.