Teaching is demanding—on your body, mind, and emotions. Light Blue Learning helps you tune into the language of the nervous system so calm, connection, and learning become daily habits.
When you practice these, you naturally weave nervous-system literacy into your day. This improves your well-being. It becomes part of your students’ day, too. The result? Growing students’ self-regulation skills and a classroom that feels safer, calmer, and ready to learn.
“Listening to yourself is a way of listening to the other.” — Licia Sky
Self-care includes sleep, diet and exercise, spirituality/sense of self in the world, fun with family and friends and hobbies.
Self-care also includes learning how to shift back to the calm, safe state after becoming overwhelmed and exhausted.
Classroom Management includes student-teacher relationships, structure of the classroom, emotional regulation of the students, how well students are learning and how respectful students are to the teacher and each other.
Adult emotional regulation includes identifying your body state, regulating your emotions, identifying your triggers, finding glimmers and understanding the conflict cycle.
Support Systems includes support from administration, co-workers, affinity groups, family/friends/significant others, and parents/community.
