The Balanced Educator Podcast: Education | Mindfulness | Growth Mindset

Are you looking for strategies to improve classroom management?

A great place to start is by teaching emotional regulation skills to your students. This will help them better self-regulate and better manage their behaviours. But how do you teach self-regulation skills to kids?

Yoga and mindfulness is a great way to teach emotional regulation to students in a fun and engaging way!

In this episode of The Balanced Educator Podcast, we interview Giselle Shardlow from Kids Yoga Stories. We ask what is kids yoga and how is it different from adult yoga? Giselle shares how to teach yoga to kids and teens and how to bring yoga and mindfulness into the classroom. We also talk about how to make yoga and mindfulness fun for kids so they’ll enjoy it and want to participate. Finally, we discuss how to prepare for bringing mindfulness and yoga into your classroom or school. Learn easy ways to get started!

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• Check out Kids Yoga Stories: https://www.kidsyogastories.com/ (where you will also find the School Yoga Program)

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Are you a new teacher feeling overwhelmed by all there is to figure out in the classroom? Do you want practical strategies for how to avoid teacher burnout?

In this episode of The Balanced Educator Podcast we’re interviewing Alisha, a seasoned educator and co-host of the teacher podcast, Rainbow Skies for New Teachers. We discuss the challenges that new teachers face. Plus, Alisha gives advice for new teachers that will help to prevent teacher burnout.

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• Check out Rainbow Sky Creation’s website: http://www.rainbowskycreations.com/

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Is there a way to live your best life without constantly feeling overwhelmed and burnt out?

Learn how to improve your work-life balance and avoid teacher burnout with these time management tips from Shawna Lapointe of Too Busy Livin’.

In this episode of The Balanced Educator Podcast, we’re interviewing Shawna Lapointe, teacher, entrepreneur, and mom of 4. Shawna shares concrete strategies that will help you leave work at work and enjoy your time at home to the fullest.

Shawna will teach you:

• an important question you need to ask yourself in order to maintain work-life balance.

By the end of this episode, you’ll have simple and powerful strategies that you can start using right away to prevent teacher burnout and improve work-life balance!

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• Follow Shawna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toobusylivin204/

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Today, we’re tackling a fun topic on The Balanced Educator Podcast… who doesn’t love a good seasonal topic!

We share concrete ways to incorporate social emotional learning and mindfulness on the theme of winter!

With the winter season upon us, it’s an opportune time to explore mindfulness in winter and dive into some calming breathing exercises that will help with self-regulation and classroom management!

Today, we’ll be sharing 10 activities you can do with your students of all grades, though some will work better with some grades than others.

You will leave this episode with ready to use, no prep winter activities you can use right away for a calm classroom environment.

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• The Balanced Educator Mindful Coloring Episode: https://www.educalme.com/tbe168/

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There are so many great ideas for classroom mindfulness activities!

In this super practical episode of The Balanced Educator Podcast, we talk about one of our favorites: mindful coloring (and hint: we share a link to some free coloring pages for kids for your use in the classroom!).

We share the what, why and how to use kids coloring pages in your classroom to help with self-regulation and classroom management.

We give concrete, no prep ideas you can start using right away!

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• Get your mindful colouring pages for kids in English here

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Today on The Balanced Educator Podcast, we are chatting with Grace Stevens all about feeling less stressed as teachers and more empowered. A perfect episode to listen to in the first few months of the school year to set yourself up for success!

A former corporate girl, Grace quit VP life to pursue her dream job as a public school teacher. After 20 years in the classroom, she focuses full-time on helping educators have a more positive teaching experience. Grace combines her signature mantra, “Your energy teaches more than your lesson plans,” with two decades of study in behavioral therapy and positive psychology to create science-based habits for overwhelmed educators. She has authored three books on teaching, including the best-selling Positive Mindset Habits for Teachers and the One New Habit book series.

We are excited to dive into the 5 habits of the least stressed most empowered educators with you!

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• Learn more about Grade Stevens here: gracestevens.com

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Tired of managing off-task students? Or having a hard time in the classroom distracted students that lack focus?

In this episode of The Balanced Educator Podcast, we walk you through a simple and easy lesson plan for K-12 classrooms that will show you how to explicitly teach your students focus strategies in a systematic and efficient way (and make classroom management easier for you!).

Just like we can’t expect students to learn how to read on their own, we also can’t expect them to learn to focus on their own.

Listen to this episode if you want some concrete teaching strategies to help your students be able to focus on their academic learning, increase their problem solving skills and apply self-regulation strategies on their own!

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• Get the Focus Lesson Plan in English: www.educalme.com/welcome
• Get the Focus Lesson Plan in French – en français: www.educalme.com/bienvenue
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Join Lindsay Miller, a distinguished kids mindfulness coach, mindfulness educator, and host of The Stress Nanny Podcast, as we embark on a captivating exploration of child stress. Lindsay’s expertise, backed by 20+ years of child development study and mindfulness certification, equips us with invaluable insights to support children’s emotional well-being.

Discover how to recognize stress symptoms in kids. Explore effective strategies for emotion regulation and social-emotional learning, and unlock the power of mindfulness in promoting kids’ mental health. Tune in to this enlightening episode and discover the secrets to nurturing resilience and fostering a mindful, balanced life for children.

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• Listen to The Stress Nanny Podcast.

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Have you noticed that when you arrive to the classroom stressed, your students’ behavior problems increase?

In this episode of The Balanced Educator Podcast, Kailey explains the neurobiology of why emotions seem to be contagious. She talks about how emotions have the function of communication internally and interpersonally. Then, Kailey explains how we can work with this system of interpersonal neurobiology instead of fighting against it.

You’ll learn how to create a social and emotional teaching plan in your classroom that allows everyone to prepare their brains and bodies for effective teaching and learning. Furthermore, you’ll learn why this whole brain teaching routine will lead to greater academic success.

Use the information learned in this episode for your teacher toolbox to simplify your classroom management plan, to improve your behavior management strategies and to help your students develop their emotional intelligence!

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• Book: The Developing Mind by Dr. Daniel Siegel

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Are you looking for simple, yet highly effective classroom ideas to get your students ready for learning?

In this to-the-point episode of The Balanced Educator Podcast, we share an excellent easy-to-teach self-regulation strategy that will help to create a calm, respectful and focused classroom environment.

This teaching strategy won’t take more than 5 minutes of your precious class time… We know how busy every single school day can be! However, we also know how important it is to get students into a state where they are ready for academics if we want them to learn! And this strategy is a tried-and-true winner with students!

You will leave this short and practical episode with everything you need to implement this calm classroom activity right away, and we even share some extra free resources you can download for free to make this activity even more seamless with your K-12 students!

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• Get your free no-prep breathing exercises & mindfulness activities ebook by following this link: https://www.educalme.com/welcome/

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