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.

Wait time, or think time, of three or more seconds after posing a question increases how many students volunteer and the length and accuracy of their responses.

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

Giving students voice and choice in their learning is critical for making learning meaningful and relevant to them, an important aspect of promoting Sense of Belonging.

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.

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.

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.

Think-pair-share encourages meaningful student discussion by allowing for extra processing time and multiple shares.

As students work with and process information by discussing, organizing, and sharing it together, they deepen their understanding.

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.

Maintaining consistent routines, structures, and supports ensures that students are able to trust and predict what will happen next.

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

Students activate more cognitive processes by exploring and representing their understandings in visual form.

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

Providing a story map ahead of time or having students create a map during or after reading helps learners understand and expand their Genre Knowledge.

Visuals help students recognize relationships within words and sentences to develop literacy skills.

Interpreting and composing discipline-specific texts requires tailoring literacy strategies, like annotating or asking questions, to the disciplinary goals and practices.

For adolescent learners, the Composition process can become more robust, as learners begin to express ideas through multiple media, which includes visual, audio, and digital production.

When students create their own number and word problems, they connect math concepts to their background knowledge and lived experiences.

By talking through their thinking at each step of a process, teachers can model what learning looks like.

Visual representations help students understand what a number represents as well as recognize relationships between numbers.

Having students teach their knowledge, skills, and understanding to their classmates strengthens learning.