Hope Rising (405-676-4140) has updated its social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum to help reduce stress and impart life skills to middle school children.
Norman,United States - October 30, 2022 /PressCable/ —
The non-profit education organization has updated its ‘My Best Me’ SEL curriculum with lesson plans that help middle school children who often feel overwhelmed by everyday responsibilities, schoolwork, and increasing levels of peer pressure. While a little bit of stress can help students concentrate and absorb new material, excessive stress can interfere with brain growth and result in a variety of physical and mental health issues.
Additional information is available at https://hoperisingsel.com
Hope Rising’s updated lesson plans help students to recognize and learn strategies for managing stress effectively. Above all, teachers are encouraged to listen attentively to their students. Some students don’t have a trusted adult at home they can turn to in an emergency. Moreover, many students were isolated from their normal environments, peer groups, and relatives during the pandemic.
Disruptive behavior as well as suspected suicide attempts spiked during the height of the health crisis. In addition to social isolation and family instability, well over 150,000 children in the United States lost a primary and/or secondary caregiver. In October 2021 the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association issued a joint statement asserting that the pandemic-related deterioration in child and adolescent mental health had become a national emergency.
Hope Rising’s SEL lesson plans address stress management in the overall context of developing psycho-social skills that help build adaptive and positive behavior. A critical component of the organization’s lesson plans involves the science and practice of hope, as written about by board member and education pioneer Dr. Chan Hellman. Hope, which is learnable, has been shown to lessen the deleterious effects of toxic stress and increase resistance to traumatic childhood events.
A sample lesson plan can be viewed at https://info.hoperisingsel.com/social-emotional-learning-sample
Additionally, these lesson plans cultivate a growth mindset in schoolchildren, teaching them to focus on the positive and view obstacles as chances for progress – rather than sources of frustration. When students believe that persistence will yield results, they are more willing to put in extra time and effort, and that leads to higher achievement. Moreover, recent developments in neuroscience bear this strategy out – research into ‘brain plasticity’ has shown that the brain is much more adaptable than previously thought.
For younger adolescents getting ready for high school, effective stress management is one of the most important SEL skills to master. Not only can it help shield students from external pressures, but students will also benefit academically as well – and these skill sets will help them live healthier and happier lives.
Interested parties can learn more at https://hoperisingsel.com/the-case-for-sel
Contact Info:
Name: Carl Mckenzie
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Organization: Hope Rising
Address: 3750 West Main Street Suite AA, Norman, Oklahoma 73072, United States
Phone: +1-405-676-4140
Website: https://hoperisingsel.com/
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