RISE for Educators

This episode offers a powerful tool for your inner voice, an "I" tool in our RISE system. Empower your thinking with this backward design model for your thoughts which is adapted from Brook Castillo's The Life Coach School.  Put a stop to the blame game, take control of your thoughts and your life. Not getting the results you want? Follow the flow; your thoughts create feelings that lead to behaviors that give you results. Change your thoughts, change your results. Give it a try! Find this and other tools on Instagram @riseforeducators and Twitter @RISEforeducator.  Reach out to us at [email protected], we would love to hear from you! 

~Julie and Holly, SIL's

In this episode, we discuss the R in our RISE system, specifically a way to Reset your Body by using our Five Senses Touch Tool. We reference the article 5 senses and Depression by Deborah Serani, Psy.D. This episode offers food for thought on resensitizing your senses as a mindfulness tool to deepen your connection to the present moment.  Our Five Senses Touch Tool is teacher and student-friendly and can be found on our Instagram page @RISEforeducators and on Twitter @RISEforeducator.

We hope you find connection and presence through your senses this week. Let us know how it worked for you! Reach out to us at [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

~Julie and Holly (SIL's )

In this episode, we discuss the E in our RISE system which relates this week to our classroom environments.  We discuss three must-have conversations to lay the groundwork for our class environments in the fall. The validating conversation, so that students and staff feel seen, heard and safe. We introduce the CLR - Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning Movement and offer the tool of Rings of Culture created by Dr. Sharroky Hollie.  The emotional conversation supports the belief that labeling and talking about feelings helps to relieve stress.  We use "The Ladder" analogy of the Polyvagal theory as a way to measure and label our emotions.  We conclude with the hopeful conversation that supports the concept of not feeling ok can be ok if you have the tools to help yourself.  The body, inner voice, social, and environment tools in our RISE system can support this.  Find our tools on Instagram @riseforeducators and Twitter @RISEforeducator.

Reach out to us at RISEforeducators@gmail with feedback on the show. We would love to hear from you. 

~Julie and Holly, SIL's

In this episode, our focus is the S in our RISE system, social connections. We discuss how to navigate a disagreement with compassion. We again refer to the work of Byron Katie, her website thework.com provides resources for a deeper understanding of her questioning process.  We offer a tool we call "the 3 C's" as a guide for having difficult conversations while keeping relationships intact. The first C is to be curious by loosening your thought patterns using the questioning and turnaround techniques. The second C is for connection, seek to find common ground and state it intentionally in your conversation. The final C is for countering. This involves finding your voice by creating space in the conversation through using a permission question such as, "Can I tell you something I am thinking?", or "Can I tell you something I notice?" and following with an I statement such as, "I worry about... or I fear...or I believe...". 

Our 3 C's for Compassionate Disagreements Tool can be found on Instagram @RISEforeducators and Twitter @RISEforeducator

Reach out to us @RISEforeducators@gmail, we would love to hear from you!

Peace,  Julie and Holly 

In this episode, we discuss the I in our RISE self-care system, our inner voice. We refer to the work of Byron Katie and her book Loving What Is. We highlight the work of Kristin Neff, an expert in self-compassion who has a test to check your self-compassion. We talk about the things we say to ourselves and how they can support us or bring us down the emotional ladder of our nervous systems. We also mention Danette May and the significance of the phrase "I am enough".  We introduce our circle of loving-kindness meditation as an antidote to negativity and your critical inner voice. Create your circle of loving-kindness with our tool that can be found on Instagram @RISEforeducators and Twitter @RISEforeducator.

Reach out to us at RISEforeducators@gmail We would love to hear from you!

May you be safe, happy, healthy, and well. 

In this episode, we introduce a simple drumming technique to relax your brain.  This falls into the R (reset your body) category of our RISE system. The tool we share is called the Stopwatch Drumming Technique and is adapted from the work of Jim Donovan. We reference the work of Emiliya Zhivotowskaya and The Good Life Project. We discuss using drumming with students to create community as referenced in the article Hearts that drum together beat together. We discuss brain research from Psychology today- Neuroscience and Music- Insights from drummers' brains and the potential therapeutic effects of rhythm, tapping and drumming. We would love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] and find our tools on Twitter: @riseforeducator and Instagram @riseforeducators.  If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and tell your friends!