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Light Blue Learning
A Polyvagal-informed Classroom Wellness Program for K-12 Teachers
Program for K-12 Teachers add: Learn how understanding the science of the student-teacher relationships can improve your well-being and classroom management skills.
Learn how understanding the science of the student-teacher relationships can improve your well-being and classroom management skills.
Learn how understanding the science of the student-teacher relationships can improve your well-being and classroom management skills.
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We know managing a classroom is tough. We exist to make it easier for you!
Colleen R. from Buffalo, NY
“I love the array of information given through Light Blue Learning. It is a database that a teacher can use to find a solution to most problems. I can't imagine a teacher not wanting a tool like this.”
“I love the array of information given through Light Blue Learning. It is a database that a teacher can use to find a solution to most problems. I can't imagine a teacher not wanting a tool like this.”
Crystal M. from Jackson, MS
“Light Blue Learning is an outstanding resource for educators who strive to create a learning environment where students feel connected to themselves and the world around them.”
“Light Blue Learning is an outstanding resource for educators who strive to create a learning environment where students feel connected to themselves and the world around them.”
Classroom Wellness
Self-Care
Self-care includes sleep, diet and exercise, spirituality/sense of self in the world, fun with family and friends and hobbies.
Classroom Management
Classroom management includes building safe student-teacher relationships, using healing-based strategies, and thinking about behavior incidents differently.
Adult Emotional Regulation
Adult emotional regulation includes identifying your brain state, regulating your emotions, identifying your triggers, finding glimmers and understanding the conflict cycle.
Support Systems
Support Systems includes support from administration, co-workers, affinity groups, family/friends/significant others, and parents/community.
Take our SNAP Classroom Management Personality Style Quiz.
Optional:
This is our reflection tool for helping you understand your go-to strategies and discovering new strategies to try!
This is our reflection tool for helping you understand your go-to strategies and discovering new strategies to try!
Take our Wellness Survey to discover areas to target during your Classroom Wellness Journey
Optional:
This is great for tracking your growth!
This is great for tracking your growth!
Watch videos and set goals!
Begin My Classroom Wellness Journey. Begin with the videos about Polyvagal Theory to help frame the rest of the content. To learn more about Polyvagal Theory, click here. Link to the section about What it means to be Polyvagal-Informed.
What does it mean to be Polyvagal-Informed?
The Polyvagal Theory was created by Dr. Stephen Porges. It explains the science of how people connect with one another to form social bonds. Dr. Porges explains that it is our autonomic nervous system or our physiology that determines if we feel safe or threatened. It is the detection of this feeling that then determines our thoughts, emotions and behaviors with others.
We have chosen to base Light Blue Learning on The Polyvagal Theory because it helps explain the depth of developing strong and trusting relationships with your students. It helps to explain why your own self-care and use of support systems are so important to teaching and learning. And it explains how to manage your classroom and the emotional dysregulation of students helping them to learn AND heal fostering long term impact.
We have devoted an entire section under our Classroom Wellness Journey that explains this in further detail.
We have chosen to base Light Blue Learning on The Polyvagal Theory because it helps explain the depth of developing strong and trusting relationships with your students. It helps to explain why your own self-care and use of support systems are so important to teaching and learning. And it explains how to manage your classroom and the emotional dysregulation of students helping them to learn AND heal fostering long term impact.
We have devoted an entire section under our Classroom Wellness Journey that explains this in further detail.