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You’ve started your learning journey and begun reading and reframing misbehaviour as stress behaviour. You can recognize examples of stressors across the 5 domains of stress; biological, emotion, cognitive, social & prosocial. Your awareness of stress states and personalized ways to find your calm and restore energy is growing. Now the question is…
How can you bring Self-Reg to others?
Self-Reg can be the foundational framework for schools, early education and care, or parenting. Or interwoven with many areas of your work such as social-emotional learning, mental health and well-being, curriculum and pedagogy, safe schools, and inclusion. Shared learning helps develop common language and understandings while building capacity and cohesion.
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Self-Reg, Social Justice & Democracy
The Future Lies in the Hands of Self-Reg Parents, Schools, and Communities. I first started thinking about social justice and democracy when I was 16 years old. I had just attended a political rally where Pierre Elliot Trudeau talked about…
The Self-Reg View: Calm Begets Calm
The reality is that one cannot will oneself to stay calm. One cannot simply choose, let alone force oneself, to be calm. This is precisely where the first step of Self-Reg—that of “reframing” —comes in.
How Do You Change A Trajectory? Duty Woes Through A Self-Reg Lens.
A story for you about a trajectory needing to be changed. A few weeks ago, I was on duty outside when a student came to me with a problem. She was really upset about how another student…
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MOST RECENT APPLY SELF-REG BLOGS
Reframing My Experience of ‘Reframing’
By Trisha Mendoza MSW, RSW Many people enrol in our Foundations program looking for Self-Reg strategies that can positively address challenging child behaviour. But the first big “aha moment” often has to do with the importance of personal Self-Reg. That insight is...
When Withdrawal Doesn’t Work: A Self-Reg Alternative
My role is not all about intervention, but there is a component of that. I work with lots of groups of students each day, from Kindergarten to Grade 3. Thanks to the flexibility of our wonderful primary Learning Resource Teacher, I'm able to support most of my groups...
Self-Reg in Early Childhood Development Reflections
By Jennifer Abannat, alumni of our Self-Reg in Early Childhood Development program This is Jennifer's third blog for TMC. You can read her first two blogs here: Navigating the Uncharted Seas of Parenting and Caregiving: A Journey of Self-Regulation and Discovery Hope...
Swan Valley School Division Implements Therapeutic Schools Project, based on the work of Stuart Shanker
As seen in The Swan Valley Star and Times Swan Valley School Division (SVSD) has pioneered a groundbreaking approach to student well-being, inspired by the work of experts like Dr. Stuart Shanker. In response to diverse student needs highlighted during the pandemic,...
From Under The Stairs To In The Classroom: Contemplating Biological Stressors In Shared Learning Environments
I've been thinking a lot about learning environments lately, and the impact of biological stressors on learning. As a Reading Specialist, I don't have my own classroom. I do have a shared classroom space, but I tend to use it just as a workspace in the morning, as...
Why is Shanker Self-Reg® Important in the Classroom?
In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the concept of Shanker Self-Reg®, as introduced by Stuart Shanker, has been a game-changer. It has revolutionized how we understand the well-being of both students and educators, and fundamentally transforms approaches to...