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LST February Newsletter
 
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LST February Timeline 

February…. As always, timelines are suggested approximations intended to be fluid and flexible, recognizing caseloads vary, experience in the role can be a factor, and you may be in the midst of new learning (e.g. CB-IEPs). Being responsive to and compassionate with ourselves, our colleagues and our students is the most important item on our agenda. 

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What we think… affects what we feel… affects how we act

- Dr. Jean Clinton
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Dr. Jean Clinton, child psychiatrist and author of Love Builds Brains, reminded us at the Elementary level Pro-D last week that belonging in relationships nourish brains which mediates risk, promotes well-being and increases social and academic learning. 
Check out her website and one of her many videos, Relationships as the Heart of Well-being (above) in case you missed her at the Professional Development day. Dr. Clinton reminds us that when we develop the competencies of critical thinking, innovation and creativity, self-directed learning, collaboration and communication, we are immunizing them against mental health issues.
 Looking at stress as a resilience-builder and explaining when it becomes unhealthy, reminds us of the fine line and the buffers. When we pause, understand our students’ developing brains through a lens of relationship and act compassionately, we all flourish and grow.
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Executive Function Developmental Resources

 - Dr. Laurie Faith
Dr. Laurie Faith, co-author with Peg Dawson and Carol-Anne Bush of Executive Function Skills in the Classroom: Overcoming Barriers, Building Strengths spoke at both our Elementary and Middle level Pro-D days this past week. She offered excellent strategies on ways to include student voice in understanding by using a Barriers-Strategies T-Chart process as well as a plethora of other strategies, lesson plans, printables and processes with videos and visuals on her website.
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