Best Practices
Self-care is doing what makes us feel most like ourselves, and practicing regular, routine self-care helps us to thrive. Here are some resources that can serve as inspiration for fitting self-care into your life.
- When we embrace a Passion First Mindset, we focus our time and energy on the activities that invigorate us. Reflect on these questions to create your own self-care plan this summer:
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- I thrive the most when _____. What can you do to put yourself in this situation/ environment more often?
- How do you make time to pursue your current interests, as well as explore new ones?
- What is one interest that you want to commit to exploring?
- The Building a Self-Care Plan Toolkit offers a four-step process for building a self-care plan that fits your needs and strengths.
- Watch this video to see how other teachers practice self-care:
Product & Curriculum Updates
The new school year is the perfect time for a renewed focus on student well-being and achievement, educator happiness and retention, and healthy school cultures. Our enhanced program offerings and platform updates are designed to do just that. Below is a brief summary of these enhancements, more details to be available later this month!
A Stronger, More Impactful Empowering Educators!
Developed to support the well-being of adults in your school or district, the Empowering Educators Adult SEL platform offers a comprehensive menu of self-paced and facilitated courses, tools, and resources.
Comprehensive Scope and Sequence to Support Instructional Planning
7 Mindsets’ Scope and Sequence was thoughtfully developed to provide a comprehensive portrait of content and lesson experiences and can help support instructional planning as students move through the 7 Mindsets curriculum.
New Complete Spanish Curriculum for All Grades
Our 7 Mindsets Spanish curriculum now includes all PreK-12 courses. The complete Spanish curriculum is a high-quality, fully customized translation offered within a socio-cultural context.
A New and Improved 7 Mindsets Platform Experience
Based on important feedback from educators like you, we are offering an improved platform experience this coming school year, including a simplified 7 Mindsets platform, customized course view, and streamlined Resource Hub that houses all tools and resources currently located in the platform’s Educator Zone.
Single Sign On (SSO) Integration – launching fall 2023!
SSO is currently available to our customers now separately with both 7M and BASE Education. Launching in the fall will be an integrated SSO experience where platform users will be able to sign into one/both 7M and BASE on one login page.
Direct Assessments and Climate Surveys
xSEL Labs’ high-quality, proven assessment tools – including direct competence assessments and climate surveys – can help guide students’ social-emotional development and measure progress over time. Reach out to your Partner Engagement team member for more information!
School Spotlight
Below are highlights of the 2022-23 school year in our 7 Mindsets schools.
Heritage Elementary School
“When we began to discuss the We are Connected mindset this year, one of our amazing teacher teams … came up with a mural idea and put it into action at our recent Fall Festival … our families all painted a piece of the mural. Families LOVED how the mural connected them to our school and that they would have the lasting legacy of having painted a piece of our mural.”
Wauseon High School
To kickoff year three as a 7 Mindsets school, teachers identified student leaders who participated in a training with a 7 Mindsets coach, and the students now lead and facilitate the weekly lessons in the classroom. One staff member shared that equipping students to help lead the lessons “is the best thing we could have done.”
Hempstead Union Free School District
The learning community at Hempstead Union Free School District embraced the Live to Give mindset and made a difference by organizing a Share the Warmth project in fall 2022. Members of the school community collected hats, gloves, and winter gear. The district gave back first within their school community and then extended its generosity and served outside communities.
Sheehy Elementary School
Students paraded through their school, proudly carrying their Growth Posters to showcase the growth they have made since the fall. The school made connections to the mindset of the month, 100% Accountable, and focused on the week’s learning objective, “Grow Through Life,” to remember that everyone learns from all of their experiences in life – good and bad.
Webinar & Resources
Unpacking the Backpack; A Student Panel Discussion About Mental Health
Presented by Robin Glenn
In this authentic and powerful webinar, you will hear directly from students, as BASE Education founder Robin Glenn talks with high schoolers about their mental health challenges and the support they received from their schools to help overcome them.
RECORDED WEBINARS
- Resilient Leadership in Challenging Time: Cultivating School Cultures of Learning and Joy presented by Dr. Salome Thomas-El
- Supporting Effective 7 Mindsets Implementation with High-Quality Assessment presented by Clark McKown – exclusively for 7 Mindsets educators
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
- Five Ways for Educators to Reset and Renew This Summer | Greater Good Magazine
- Restoring the Joy in Teaching | Edutopia
- How Mindfulness can Help Create Calmer Classrooms | Greater Good Magazine