December 2020 Newsletter
 
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Promoting Resilience
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Life is full of change and challenges, goodness and growth for all of us. It is our ability to adjust to or recover from whatever comes our way – our resilience - that determines how we navigate, weather the storms, and rise. Our resilience expands with time and intention. As the article, video and strategy below suggest, resilience growth is encouraged with intentionally nurtured connections, finding and focusing purposefully, and embracing healthy practices. Recognize ways you nurture your own resilience, and the ways you elevate our colleagues and our kids to nurture theirs.
Spiral Journal
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The Spiral Journal is a flexible strategy promoting grounding and learning, honouring our diversity, building social-emotional skills and resilience, purposeful deep thinking and quick writing, and propelling forward into visioned next steps. Included here are instructions, quadrant prompts, and examples.

Building Your Resilience
Adversity and stressors are commonly faced in life. A team of resilience experts offer a roadmap for adapting to life-changing situations, and emerging even stronger than before.

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Learning Brain vs Survival Brain
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Understanding and recognizing when we are in Learning Brain versus Survival Brain, while helping our kids to do the same, builds collective resilience. This 5-minute video offers a helpful explanation around the importance of intentionally and respectfully wrapping around our kids, increasing their resilience, and supporting their ability to maintain or return to “Learning Brain." Connecting to brain development, relatable visuals demonstrate the rationale for authentically connecting with students to have a significant positive impact on their present and future development. This video potentially lends itself as a resource to use with students to spark discussions specific to looking for "your people" (visual) as a reminder of safety to prompt them to return to Learning Brain.

 

 

 

SD61 LST Meetings
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The gift of time...

We wanted to give you the gift of time, so we are cancelling the regular monthly LST meeting, but …we invite you to join us for an optional ’December Drop-In‘ on Dec 10 from 8:30-9am on Zoom. Bring a smile, a mug of your morning beverage of choice, and pop in to connect. 

 

 

 

NEXT MEETING - Thursday, February 11, 2:00-3:00pm

Upcoming Thursday LST Meeting Dates: 
February 11 
April 8
May 13 
June 10 

Optional LST Workshop:
Wednesday, December 9 - Person-centered Planning 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
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Pathways   Partnerships

Work/Volunteer Experience and Field Trip Forms - UPDATED

District VP of Partnerships & Pathways, Lindsay Johnson, and DLST Debra Caso-Rohland are offering an optional Zoom meeting on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 3:30-4pm to review the release of updated New Field Trip Forms and New Work Experience Volunteer forms. These can be found on our Support for Learning website under the COVID-19 resources tab). Follow our Zoom Link to join this session.

 

 

 

CAPP Webpage
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Come check out what‘s new! 

New assessments, interventions and resources have been added to the CAPP webpage, come have a look at the Motor Section in the Processing Blocks, Foundational Blocks, and Diverse Learners section!

 

 

 

Provincial Outreach Programs
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POPARD

The Provincial Outreach Program for Autism and Related Disorders provides consultation, training and support services to schools with a primary focus on increasing the capacity of school district staff to support students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

School teams can access the POPARD team through the POPARD District Partner:
Tresa Marshall
tmarshall@sd61.bc.ca

 

 

 

Colleague Collaboration

We are grateful to our colleagues who shared how they nurture their resilience. How do you nurture yours?

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Professional Development Opportunities
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The 7 Steps to Earning Instructional Control: An Introduction for BCBAs and Behavior Professionals (BA1)

Dr. Robert Schramm, the author of The 7 Steps to Earning Instructional Control, is giving a discount on his pilot webinar course on his website on building instructional control.

This is a great opportunity for you and the team to learn more about instructional control and how to develop cooperation with your learners. The discount code is DO-BETTER and when you input it during checkout it will give you a $230-USD discount. This code is only good until the end of December.

 

 

 

Free Live 60 minute Second Step Webinars 

Topics include: 
- Elementary and Bullying Prevention: Power to Create a Positive School Climate
- Early Learning: Improved Behavior, Improved Learning
- Middle School: Empowered with Skills for Life
- Elementary: Improve Academics, Support Students, and Create a Positive School Climate
- Child Protection Unit: Working Together to Keep Kids Safe
- Out-of-School Time: A Time to Thrive Together
- Making Educator Wellness a Priority
- Getting Back to Basics: Community Building with SEL

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Making Educator Wellness a Priority (Second Step)

Teaching is one of the most stressful professions. That stress can affect your health, your job satisfaction, and even the quality of your teaching. However, decades of research show that when teachers feel better, they perform better. In this webinar you’ll learn some simple strategies you can use immediately to reduce stress and improve your wellness.
Next Session:  Wednesday, December 9 @ 2:00 PM Eastern time

 

 

 

Getting Back to Basics: Community Building with SEL (Second Step)

Education during the COVID-19 pandemic is overwhelming for staff and students. Social-emotional learning (SEL) can be a powerful support tool, but it can also be part of the problem. If your SEL programming isn’t going as well as you’d hoped this year, then it’s time to get back to basics and focus on community building. In this webinar, explore simple community-building tools from the Second Step® family of SEL programs that you can use to support students’ and staff’s social-emotional well-being.  
Next session:  Wednesday, December 16  @ 5:00 p.m. Eastern time

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