Tools

Stress, Trauma and the Brain

• Balanced Brain
• The Body and Stress (with blank body template) - Adapted from S. Schuster, Classroom Connections, Innerchoice Publishing, 1992
• Importance of Sleep - Sally Daniels
• Responding to Trauma - Post Earthquake Haiti - Alice Nelson
• Right Brain or Left Brain? - Alice Nelson
• Right Brain/Left Brain Questions - Alice Nelson
• Sleep Statistics and Tips - Sally Daniels

Stress Reduction in the Adult Basic Education Classroom

• Assessing Levels of Stress - Alice Nelson
• Breathing and Balancing: Yoga in the Classroom - Sarah Bayer
• Benefits of Laughter in Stress Reduction - Lenore Balliro
• Checking In and Letting Go Daily Ritual - Jeymi Arroyo
• Circle of Control/No Control Lesson Plan - Ronda Alley
• Class Guidelines - Project Hope
• Classroom in a Bag
• ESOL Students' Writing from Visit to Mystic River - Jeri Bayer
• Gallery of Scents Lesson - Jeri Bayer
• GED Testing Style Survey
• Getting Started With Managing Stress: Teacher Story - Alice Nelson
• Guided Meditation Lesson Plan - Lisa Gimbel
• I Love Lucy Laughter as Stress Release Lesson - Jeri Bayer
• Ideas for Humor in the ESOL Classroom - Lenore Balliro
• Impossible Dream Lesson - Alice Nelson
• Letting Go Bowl Lesson Plan - Jeri Bayer
• Mountain, Sun, Moon, Star, Tree: A Quick Classroom Stretch - Alice Nelson
• PACE Routine
• Poems About Math - Phillip Howard
• Preparation for Museum of Fine Arts Trip - Alice Nelson
• Reducing Stress and Promoting Mental Health in the ABE/ESOL Classroom - Lenore Balliro
• Reflections on Stress and GED Math - Phillip Howard
• Samples from Stress Tree Projects - Sumner Adult Education
• Self-Care Lesson Plan - Lenore Balliro
• Self-Care Techniques Lesson - Sally Daniels
• Setting Ground Rules in Class Lesson Plan - Lisa Gimbel
• Simple Stress Reduction Ideas - Ronda Alley
• Stress and Ways to Relieve It - Jeri Bayer
• Stress Tree Lesson Plan - Jeymi Arroyo
• Stress Tree Template - Amy Cameron
• Talking About Feelings - Lisa Gimbel
• Teacher's Story Stress Reduction Routines - Lisa Gimbel
• Using Fidgets Lesson Plan - Ronda Alley
• Where Does Time Go? - Sally Daniels

Expressive Arts and Well Being

• 3-D Mandala Project: Mandala of Hope - Project Hope
• Affirming Our Strengths (Preparation for Affirmation Box Activity) - Lenore Balliro
• Altered Shoes Lesson: Tracing a Journey - Lenore Balliro
• Altered Shoes Preparation Grid - Project Hope
• A Mile In My Shoes - Linda Snow
• Bio Poems - Vermont Adult Learning Students
• "Blue Is" poem
• Collaborative Poem: Blue Is - Lenore Balliro
• Creating Affirmation Boxes - Sarah Bayer
• Invitation to Mandala - Lenore Balliro
• Guidelines for Community Mandala
• Life Journey Through Altered Shoes - Sarah Bayer
• Picture Story Lesson - Kate Singleton
• Picture Story - Kate Singleton
• Poems about Math - Haitian Multi-Service Center
• Prewriting lesson for Where I'm From poems
• Seven Habits Puzzle Pieces Expressive Project - Ronda Alley
• Songbook For Singing, Spreading Joy and Laughter and Learning English - Haitian Multi-Service Center
• The Story of an Altered Shoe Project - Lisa Gimbel and Jeri Bayer
• Stir a Memory Project
• Stress-Buster Bags for Children - Jeri Bayer
• Stress Tree Lesson Plan - Jeymi Arroyo
• Stress Tree Samples
• Stress Tree Template - Amy Cameron
• Student Writing About Altered Shoes
• Templates for Bio Poems - Abromitis
• The Value of Bio Poems - Linda Snow
• Transforming Your Self-Image Through Body Art - Lenore Balliro
• We Are Change Playback Theater Leads to Community Activism - Lisa Gimbel
• We Are Change - Accompanying picture story - Lisa Gimbel
• Where I'm From Poems - Project Hope
• Where I'm From Poems - Exeter

Linking to Community Services

• Community Agency Research Template
• Community Resources: Making Them Real to Students - Lisa Gimbel
• Community Resources Goal
• Getting Connected to Community Resources - Alice Nelson
• Letter to Mayor - Lisa Gimbel
• Making Connections with Community Service Providers - Lenore Balliro
• Mental Health and Community Resources Lesson - Jeri Bayer
• Mental Health First Aid: Community Training
  
• Research Community Resources for Mental Health
• We Are Change Playback Theater Leads to Community Activism - Lisa Gimbel
• We Are Change - Accompanying picture story - Lisa Gimbel