Letters from the Field
The recent Sunday Edition broadcast documentary on self-regulation has resulted in many contacts from across the country and across time and careers. Here are some thoughts from a retired principal colleague. I heard the CBC program on Sunday-last and thought: How wonderful: Thanks to the likes of Stuart Shanker, Mike McKay, and others; there is a growing cadre of educators whose first order of business is the frames-of-mind and emotional states of the children and youth they face each morning! I know you know, it’s not about the grades we teach, the subjects we teach, or the “stuff” (content) within the subjects that ...
CSRI Webinar 13: Brenda Whittam-Neary
<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/79241623" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/79241623">CSRI Webinar 13: Nanaimo Celebrations In Self-Regulated Learning - Brenda-Whittam-Neary</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/surreyschools">Surreyschools</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
YSRI Information Bulletins
Our colleagues in Yukon Education are deeply engaged in the self-regulation journey and in building system and community capacity to support learners, educators, parents and others. These information bulletins (Parent Guide, Impact of Trauma and Science Backgrounder) are being used as part of the Yukon Self-Regulation Initiative to increase awareness, engagement and responsibility for what we know and what we do. See other PDF documents under Resources
Letters from the Field: “Health and Wellness Mondays”
It is such a privilege to receive and read the stories about the transformation in school environments and in personal well-being as educators engage in the self-regulation learning journey. Here is an edited note from one of those places edited to remove any of the identifying features. The school is in a community with very high needs. The good news is that this kind of experience is transferrable; it is occurring in many, many places. Hi Stuart, I just had a conversation with a teacher colleague who started the year off being uncomfortable with the time we were spending as a school on ...
Social/Emotional Learning: One of the New Basics
A few weeks ago, a teacher leader shared: “I never dreamed that the day would come when social emotional learning (SEL) would take its rightful place on the educational landscape and be treated with the importance it deserves.” Recently, another educator said that the national focus on child/teen mental health is both “long overdue and just in time.” It is clear from conversations like these and the work represented in schools and districts across our country that we are now attuned to the reality that the brain can’t learn, the mind can’t engage and the person can’t reach her full potential without conditions ...
CBC News: Self-regulation technique helps students focus in class.
At Cindrich elementary school in Surrey, B.C., 10-year-old boys are putting themselves to bed earlier, an enthusiastic girl in Grade 6 takes herself for a run when she’s feeling hyper, and a diminutive boy who is still learning English tells his teacher he will do better work if he sits on a special cushion. It is all part of self-regulation, a philosophy of education that is moving into public schools... [Read more...]
CBC News Documentary: How does your engine run?
Documentary: How does your engine run? When Stuart Shanker, distinguished professor of philosophy and psychology at York University, got home from a long trip recently, he was excited to see his five-year-old daughter. They started roughhousing. Shanker was, by his own admission, a little rambunctious. At one point, she turned to him and said solemnly, ”Daddy, you need to take three deep breaths.... [Read more...]
Your Tone of Voice: A Question for Stuart
Stuart, I have recently tuned into the matter of tone in spoken language and its impact on the listener/learner. Whether it is the teacher in the class, the coach of a team of young athletes, or one peer talking to another, there is something at our core that influences our response to tone. Two people can use exactly the same words, with the same rhythm and at the same volume. For those hearing... [Read more...]
Jennifer Pardee, West Vancouver School District
One of the First Wave school districts in the self-regulation journey is West Vancouver. Their engagement in the shared work is a great example of the “awareness…engagement…responsibility” continuum. Here is an overview of one school’s work and the difference it is making. Thanks to Jennifer Pardee for sharing. http://go45.sd45.bc.ca/blogs/schoolblogs/biblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=60 var... [Read more...]
The Birth of a Self-Regulated Book Club “Baby”
In September 2013, Paula Jurczak convened an on-line book club for BC educators using Stuart Shanker’s book Calm, Alert and Learning as the organizer and focus for the group’s engagement. That book club is well underway now and is being replicated in other jurisdiction. Here is Paula’s reflection on the birth of this distributed learning community. The Birth of a Self-Regulated... [Read more...]
Protecting Children from Toxic Stress
The complex and engaging work in the field of self-regulation is our effort – neuroscientists, educators and others – to pay attention to the issue of stress and its impact on the ability of individuals to function. We all have stress; we all feel stress; in fact, without some level of stress, we wouldn’t exist. But what happens when stress overwhelms the resources an individual has to deal... [Read more...]
Social/Emotional Learning: One of the New Basics
A few weeks ago, a teacher leader shared: “I never dreamed that the day would come when social emotional learning (SEL) would take its rightful place on the educational landscape and be treated with the importance it deserves.” Recently, another educator said that the national focus on child/teen mental health is both “long overdue and just in time.” It is clear from conversations like... [Read more...]
Letters from the Field – John Bird
As we continue our self-regulation journey, it is essential that we work toward greater parent understanding of and engagement with the self-reg framework. The following reflection is from John Bird, President of the Greater Victoria School District Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils and a member of the district’s Self-Regulation First Wave Team. His observations speak to the importance... [Read more...]
Letters from the Field – Chris Robinson
This note from Chris Robinson, one of Stuart Shanker’s team of clinicians from TMC, is such a rich resource and serves as clear and positive guidance to a school-based initiative that is being developed to support the implementation of a self-regulation framework in a school with a high percentage of vulnerable learners. The specific reference points to the school and the personnel have been taken... [Read more...]
Sports and Self-Regulation
How do sports and self-reg connect? Extensively! Here is an interesting post from coach and elite athletic performance practitioner Enzo Augimeri regarding the role of self-regulation in sports and of sports in self-regulation. by Enzo Augimeri enzo@mindnsports.com The Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative (see www.self-regulation.ca) has placed a great deal of emphasis on the benefit of sport and... [Read more...]
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Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative
For some time now it has been apparent that behavioral management techniques that rely heavily on punishment and reward are relatively ineffective in reducing children’s problematic behaviors, and in many cases can actually exacerbate the problem.
Over the past decade it has also become increasingly clear that the cause of many of these behaviors lies in poor self-regulation.
The Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative has been established ...
BC First Wave Districts
- School District 36 (Surrey)
- School District 37 (Delta)
- School District 41 (Burnaby)
- School District 43 (Coquitlam)
- School District 45 (West Vancouver)
- School District 54 (Bulkley Valley)
- School District 68 (Nanaimo Ladysmith)
- School District 61 (Greater Victoria)
- Government of Yukon
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