Health and Wellness

Positive work year practices promote wellness and rejuvenation

Encouraging and promoting not working is an important step a district can take to support the social, emotional and mental health of its administrative leadership.

Understanding and Relieving Stress for Women in Educational Leadership

Dr. Monica Peterson will be presenting her recent research on the topic of stress management specific to women in leadership roles.

District uses Prop. 56 funds to combat student vaping

In an effort to address this new epidemic, the Las Virgenes USD has been aggressive in its efforts to educate students, parents and staff, while enforcing rules and regulations on vaping.

Retaining & Supporting Employees Through Financial Wellness

This webinar will explain how districts can help employees overcome financial concerns, including how to get out of debt, plan for retirement, start saving and avoid living paycheck to paycheck.

Suicide on campus: How schools are dealing with the crisis

The newest student suicide cluster is no doubt sending administrators statewide into a thoughtful review process of their mental health student services and crisis intervention teams.

How to improve emotional intelligence in the classroom

Assessing the emotional elements in any situation, whether positive or negative, will help keep the students engaged and enable the teacher to better understand their behavior and current mindset.

Reading suggestions for educators this summer

Catch up on some professional development and reading (in between visits to the beach and not thinking about school).

Why you need to talk, talk, talk to young children

Experts, including faculty members from the Brandman University Early Childhood Education (ECE) and Psychology programs, share advice for parents with young children and discuss how we learn language.

Why is it important to understand and develop a student's emotional intelligence?

MeTEOR Education discusses emotional intelligence and its effects in the classroom and in the long run for students.

AB 1719: CPR training resources for high schools with a health course requirement

Keenan provides a news brief on AB 1719.

How we learn and how information is stored in memory

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The Be Seen and Heard Program

Motivating readers: Goals, choice, and reading growth

Renaissance discusses research on motivation increasing reading frequency, and more.

The social-emotional skill of perspective taking

The capacity to make sense of another person’s thoughts and feelings underlies a host of social-emotional learning outcomes.

For too many students, school is the only place they receive love

Flippen Group asks: How can we hope to develop children’s minds when their most basic emotional needs are going unmet every day?

How does positive thinking affect neuroplasticity?

What is going on in the brain when one produces positive or negative thoughts? From Meteor Education.

How teachers can help students cope with stress

Meteor Education: Students should understand stress while teachers need to allow for social connectivity within the classroom, and more.

The neurological impact of stress on learning

Meteor Education offers a resource explaining stress, emotion, memory, and the hippocampus.