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Download this free activity ofr your students to reflect on all their accomplishments! 🍬 Blog Topics, Free Activities, Do You Feel, Social Work, Recognition, Reflection, Encouragement, Parenting, Names
2022 AccomplishMINT Activity!
Download this free activity ofr your students to reflect on all their accomplishments! 🍬
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Download this Free gratitude activity Gratitude Activities, Expressing Gratitude, Teaching Kids, Farm, Power, Download, Kids Learning
Farm To Table: A Gratitude Activity
Download this Free gratitude activity
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Struggling with big behaviors in the classroom? Check out our step-by-step guide to responding Name Calling, Step Guide, Behavior, Classroom, Teacher, Big
Respond to Big Behaviors in the Classroom
Struggling with big behaviors in the classroom? Check out our step-by-step guide to responding
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Momentous Institute
Click to take a closer look at the neurobiology of stress. Take Care Of Yourself, Finding Yourself, Make A Plan, What Happened To You, Take That, Let It Be, Lists To Make, Stress Management
Tips for Managing Stress
Click to take a closer look at the neurobiology of stress.
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Momentous Institute
Tired children have a harder time focusing at school, regulating their emotions and interacting with their peers. We have three tips to help your children get healthy sleep. Healthy Nights, Healthy Sleep, Get Healthy, Waking Up Tired, Have A Good Night, Sleep Apnea, Kids Sleep, Calm Down
3 tips for healthy sleep
Tired children have a harder time focusing at school, regulating their emotions and interacting with their peers. We have three tips to help your children get healthy sleep.
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Momentous Institute
3 easy steps to remember when working towards safe relationships (chances are you might be doing them without realizing!). Relationship Building, Pressure, Relationships, Language, Success, Positivity
Safe Relationships in the Classroom
3 easy steps to remember when working towards safe relationships (chances are you might be doing them without realizing!).
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Momentous Institute
Parents have the opportunity to help teens explore these racial differences. It may sound intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Conversations can start by exploring the idea of friendship in general, with questions such as: Exploring, Opportunity, Parents, Friendship, Sound, Teachers, Racing, Teen
Talking to Teens about Race
Parents have the opportunity to help teens explore these racial differences. It may sound intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Conversations can start by exploring the idea of friendship in general, with questions such as:
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Momentous Institute
Strategies to help children feel they belong
Strategies to help children feel they belong
Strategies to help children feel they belong
Strategies to help children feel they belong
Strategies to help children feel they belong
Given its importance, how can we create environments where all children gain a sense of belonging? Here are three strategies that can help.
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Momentous Institute
What is social emotional health and why does it matter? Learn more about why social emotional health is the heartbeat of Momentous Institute! What Is Social, School Counseling, Empathy, Heartbeat, Optimism, Settle, Psychology
What is social emotional health?
What is social emotional health and why does it matter? Learn more about why social emotional health is the heartbeat of Momentous Institute!
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Momentous Institute
When we can think about a teenager in the context of a brain under construction, we can be much more thoughtful about how we approach them, and how we make sense of the work. Teenage Brain Development, Social Emotional Development, Development Quotes, Childhood Development, Social Emotional Learning, Parenting Tools, Positive Parenting, Brain Structure
Brain Under Construction
When we can think about a teenager in the context of a brain under construction, we can be much more thoughtful about how we approach them, and how we make sense of the work.
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Momentous Institute
We've adapted Dr. Gottman's Four Horsemen metaphor for working with teenagers. Take a look! Gottman Four Horsemen, The Four, Psychotherapy, Horseman, Metaphor, Teenagers, Adaptations, Counseling
Beware the Four Horsemen
We've adapted Dr. Gottman's Four Horsemen metaphor for working with teenagers. Take a look!
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Momentous Institute
Emotions - Rollercoaster
Life can be full of ups and downs, just like riding a roller-coaster.
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Momentous Institute
How our adult relationships are impacted by our childhood attachment style. Childhood Trauma, Childhood Education, Early Childhood, Early Education, Trauma Therapy, Child Therapy, Play Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Attachment Theory
Childhood Attachment Styles
How our adult relationships are impacted by our childhood attachment style.
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Momentous Institute
Slacking off isn’t such a bad idea. Here are the benefits of slacking off and five ways to achieve more while working less. Slack Off, Entrepreneur Magazine, Break Time, Task List, Bedtime Routine, Sleep Deprivation, Athletic Performance, Go To Sleep
How to achieve more while working less
Slacking off isn’t such a bad idea. Here are the benefits of slacking off and five ways to achieve more while working less.
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Momentous Institute
As we work with children, we need to continually ask ourselves, “Am I engaging the upstairs brain, or am I triggering the downstairs brain?” Social Skills Activities, Brain Activities, Therapy Activities, Articulation Activities, Speech Therapy, Whole Brain Child, The Brain For Kids
Upstairs and Downstairs Brain
As we work with children, we need to continually ask ourselves, “Am I engaging the upstairs brain, or am I triggering the downstairs brain?”
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Momentous Institute
Let's take a look at how our childhood attachment styles can impact our adult relationships. Types Of Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Healthy Coping Skills, Healing Solutions, What Happened To Us, Attachment Styles, Child Psychology, Therapy Ideas
How childhood attachment styles impact adult relationships
Let's take a look at how our childhood attachment styles can impact our adult relationships.
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Momentous Institute
Here's a look at the range of human emotions described through a concept called "the emotional keyboard." Humility, Forgiveness, Homework Videos, Poverty Children, Research Studies, Human Emotions, Working With Children, Hardwired
Emotional Keyboard
Here's a look at the range of human emotions described through a concept called "the emotional keyboard."
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Momentous Institute
Three practices to help us stay grounded, present and loving in uncertain times. Difference Of Opinion, Health Practices, Make Peace, Feeling Stuck, Speak The Truth, Third Way
Making peace with uncertainty
Three practices to help us stay grounded, present and loving in uncertain times.
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Momentous Institute
Do you feel uncomfortable at the idea of talking about race in a classroom of mostly students of color? Here are two things to remember. How Are You Feeling, Dear White, A Classroom, Cute Love Songs, Social Justice, Diversity, Equality
Talking race in the classroom.
Do you feel uncomfortable at the idea of talking about race in a classroom of mostly students of color? Here are two things to remember.
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Momentous Institute
Given its importance, how can we create environments where all children gain a sense of belonging? Here are three strategies that can help. Learning Stories, Preschool Classroom, Classroom Themes, Circle Of Courage, Class Activities
3 strategies to help children feel they belong
Given its importance, how can we create environments where all children gain a sense of belonging? Here are three strategies that can help.
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Momentous Institute
Every child deserves the opportunity to be successful based on his or her unique gifts and talents, but not every child has equitable opportunities.  Here's why it's important to talk to children about equity and how we can help start the conversation. Conscious Discipline, Cultural Differences, Second Child, Equity, Districts, Schools
Equality vs Equity
Every child deserves the opportunity to be successful based on his or her unique gifts and talents, but not every child has equitable opportunities. Here's why it's important to talk to children about equity and how we can help start the conversation.
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Momentous Institute
Every child deserves the opportunity to be successful based on his or her unique gifts and talents, but not every child has equitable opportunities.  Here's why it's important to talk about equity with children and how to start the conversation. Nicholas Kristof, Workplace, Conversation
Having conversations about equity with children
Every child deserves the opportunity to be successful based on his or her unique gifts and talents, but not every child has equitable opportunities. Here's why it's important to talk about equity with children and how to start the conversation.
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Momentous Institute
Here’s an activity you can do with one or more kids to introduce the idea of positive self-talk. 6th Grade Worksheets, Kids Worksheets Printables, Therapy Worksheets, Teacher Worksheets, Group Activities, Social Work Practice, School Social Work, Writing Practice
My Own Best Friend
Here’s an activity you can do with one or more kids to introduce the idea of positive self-talk.
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Momentous Institute
Sensory Processing can be a difficult topic to understand. Let's take a deeper look. Self Regulation Strategies, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Neurological System, Icd 10 Codes, Sensory System, School Services, Dyspraxia, Sensory Integration
Sensory processing
Sensory Processing can be a difficult topic to understand. Let's take a deeper look.
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Momentous Institute
We all have stereotypes. But the reality is, they can be very harmful. Gender Equality Art, Gender Stereotypes, Amuse Journey, Intercultural Communication, Around The World In 80 Days, Educational Infographic, Media Literacy, Feeling Broken Quotes, Decorating Rooms
Why Stereotypes are Harmful
We all have stereotypes. But the reality is, they can be very harmful.
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Momentous Institute
Here's a classroom activity to help your students develop a strong sense of self. Group Therapy Activities, Student Activities, Preschool Activities, All About Me Activities, English Activities, Preschool Classroom Decor, Classroom Activities, Cultural Identity, Identity Art
Prioritizing students' cultural identity
Here's a classroom activity to help your students develop a strong sense of self.
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Momentous Institute
We asked Dr. Jamie Chaves, a pediatric occupational therapist at The Center for Connection in Pasadena, California, to help us make sense of sensory processing. Pasadena California
Making Sense of Sensory Processing
We asked Dr. Jamie Chaves, a pediatric occupational therapist at The Center for Connection in Pasadena, California, to help us make sense of sensory processing.
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Momentous Institute