Take Care of You: Apps and Tools to Support Self-Care

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Thursday, December 3, 2:00–2:45 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
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Just Breathe: Why Mindfulness Matters

Dr. Lynne Herr
You know you need to take better care of yourself, but how? Explore a great collection of tools, apps and tips to support self-care for busy, active educators. From mindfulness apps to sleep improving tools, this session will help you become a more effective educator and happy human.

Audience:	Teachers, Principals/head teachers, Professional developers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Smartphone: Windows, Android, iOS Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	Stop, Breathe Think Calm
Topic:	Social emotional learning
Grade level:	PK-12
Subject area:	Special education, Health and physical education
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Citizen Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build relationships and community. Learner Stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences.
Additional detail:	Session recorded for video-on-demand

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Participants will learn about apps, tips and tools to support all areas of personal well-being through exercise, healthy eating, stress management, time management, identifying and reducing anxiety, improving mindfulness and promoting sleep. Focus will be on tools that are free to educators. A Google form will empower participants to share their favorite personal self-care tools and all participants will have access to the shared spreadsheet of resources that sort by category.

Outline

The session will highlight these apps, tips and tools:

Mindfulness apps - Stop, Breathe, Think and Calm for classrooms
Experience a 90 second "Calming Anger" meditation together
Listen to a Sleep Story snippet from Calm
Do a 3-minute energizer from Calm Body
Experience 3 grounding routines for educators and students
Explore meal planning apps

Supporting research

According to the book Take Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators by Tina Boogeran, The key to thriving, as both a human and an educator, rests in mindfulness, reflection, and daily self-care activities.

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