Shift for Wellness

Shift for Wellness

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  • #47 Sussex County Teacher Edition: Lafayette / Barbara McIntyre

    I feel that it’s really important for educators to focus on the whole child, not just the academic piece because children today are dealing with so many emotions. – Barbara McIntyre One of the one things I’ve come to know about facing challenges and tragedies is that kids of all ages sitting in classrooms all throughout Sussex County and the state of New Jersey suffer greatly...

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    20 min
  • #46 Sussex County Teacher Edition: Lafayette / Pat Faris

    The Nutrition Committee evolved into an overall Wellness Committee.  From nutrition, we’d have a Family Activity Night. We emphasized the need to be active as a family.  We also started…Screen Free Time. With a grant we recevied equipment for videos, mats, etc. so the staff could exercise and do yoga after school. – Pat Faris One of the one things I’ve come to know about...

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    23 min
  • #45 Sussex County Teacher Edition: Stanhope / Miss Reilly

    Social and emotional learning is so easy to implement in your everyday teaching. – Maggie Reilly One of the one things I’ve come to know about facing challenges and tragedies is that kids of all ages sitting in classrooms all throughout Sussex County and the state of New Jersey suffer greatly from them. Year after year I witness these levels in children increasing. Students trust themselves...

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    24 min
  • #45 Sussex County Teacher Edition: Stanhope / Miss Reilly

    Social and emotional learning is so easy to implement in your everyday teaching. – Maggie Reilly
    One of the one things I’ve come to know about facing challenges and tragedies is that kids of all ages sitting in classrooms all throughout Sussex County and the state of New Jersey suffer greatly from them. Year after year I witness these levels in children increasing. Students trust themselves less, they lack resiliency, as well as the ability to cope with minor disruptions.
    As the Sussex County Teacher of the Year with a platform for embedding yoga and mindfulness into the daily classroom instruction, it’s become my mission to seek out other teachers in the county who are making tremendous shifts in the learning process for kids.  While I accept this honor very graciously, I also acknowledge the fact that there are many other teachers in the county who deserve to be highlighted for implementing the same practices.
    I feel overwhelmed as an educator…so this was nice to be able to go to this training and learn about social and emotional learning and just be able to implement it in small ways, daily. – Maggie Reilly 
    With the help of our Executive County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Rosalie Lamonte, and all the Chief Administrators in the county, I‘ve been able to make some great connections, hear some inspirational stories, and learn about the healthy goodness that’s happening with our kiddos in the classroom to help them build strong social and emotional character, which creates a solid foundation to confront the personal and academic challenges they are facing.
    Think about the social and emotional standards that you want your kids to really excel at … and do not try to get through every single thing in one year…focus on empathy for a whole school year with your students.
    – Maggie Rielly
     
    Above: Maggie’s students doing a mindfulness activity with ClassDojo.
    Matt de la Pena’s book above links to his website.  Maggie and I share a LOVE for his book, which is about finding light in dark places.

    @KiraWilley
    Click the book to connect to Kira’s website!
    Maggie can be reached by email at [email protected] 
    on Facebook @Maggie Reilly and Twitter @MissReills
    Mindfulness is Not a Class Period, It’s a Lifestyle
    24 min
  • #44 Sussex County Teacher Edition: Stanhope / Miss DiIonno

    A lot of kids have this mindset where feeling happy is a good thing, feeling sad is bad, feeling angry is bad, and feeling exciting is good…I want them to start being aware that actually all feelings are good! – Stephanie DiIonno, 3rd-grade teacher One of the one things I’ve come to know about facing challenges and tragedies is that kids of all ages sitting in...

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    26 min
  • #43 Mindful Human Series: Part IV – The Role of the Mindful Human

    In Part III of the Mindful Human series, we practiced getting in touch with sound as we played around with Mindful Listening.  If you didn’t get the chance to practice or listen to part three, you can check out episode #40 “Part III Mindful Human Series: Your Brain and Mindfulness”. You’ll want to go to shiftforwellness.com/40.  If you’d like to listen to the series in...

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    53 min
  • #42 Sussex County Teacher Edition: The Align Wellness Center / Sparta

    “To be able to offer therapy, counseling, and wellness activites to our students and staff members has been just a dream come true.” School Psychologist and Coordinator for the Align Wellness Center, Dr. Jane Esposito from Sparta High School in Sparta, New Jersey, tells us all about the creation of The Align Wellness Center at the high school.  The center is committed to providing students...

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    29 min
  • #41 Sussex County Teacher Edition: Andover

    Students were disregulated and in need of coping strategies and I think a lot of times we’re so focused on the academics and the rote instruction…we really don’t have the same framework for social emotional learning. – Dr. Melissa VanBlarcom, School Psychologist School Psychologist, Dr. Melissa VanBlarcom from Long Pond School in Andover, New Jersey shares her story about how she works with the school...

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    18 min
  • #40 Mindful Human Series: Part III – Your Brain & Mindfulness

    In Part II of the Mindful Human series we practiced getting in touch with our Anchor Breath.  If you didn’t get the chance to practice or listen to part two, you can check out episode #38 “Part II Mindful Human series: Why Practicing Mindfulness is Necessary”. Visit shiftforwellness.com/#38. There you can read the blog post or listen to the podcast and you can also download...

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    28 min
  • #39 Sussex County Teacher Edition: Franklin

      Mindfulness and social emotional learning to me are not necesarily a program, but it’s more of just a practice, and we embed it as much as we can into every day activities and routines…” – Jess Garris, 5th & 6th Grade Language Arts/Social Studies Special Education Teacher   Listen in as two teachers, Jess Garris and Courtney Savino, from Franklin Elementary School in Franklin,...

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    21 min

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