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Implementing Mindfulness Practices in Schools

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Improved Concentration Mindfulness exercises, such as meditation and deep breathing, can enhance students’ ability to focus. Mindful Breathing Teaching students simple breathing exercises can be an effective way to introduce mindfulness. Inhaling and exhaling mindfully helps calm the nervous system and enhances focus.

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12 Online Resources About Puzzles

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Whether it’s a solo endeavor or a group activity, National Puzzle Day encourages people to exercise their minds and have fun with the challenges that puzzles present. Puzzle enthusiasts often use this day to engage in their favorite puzzle-solving activities and share their passion with others.

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How Faculty Database Systems Are Streamlining Your Schools — And Your Educator’s Lives

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With the pandemic creating shifts in the systems, we’ve relied on for decades, technologies aim to facilitate better systems for those who guide us. While many of these systems aim to make our lives easier, some only seem to complicate and frustrate. Luckily, the novel Faculty Database System hopes to do just that.

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Keyboarding Pedagogy

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I teach finger exercises to remind students they have 8 fingers and a thumb. I teach key placement first, using programs like Big Brown Bear Typing for kindergarten-first grade and using a blank keyboard exercise for olders I teach touch typing, starting in third grade but not sooner. “The It takes the pressure off of keyboarding.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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Students can engage in various counting exercises related to the number 100. PE Physical activities during winter often become calisthenics or personal fitness, exercises that can be done indoors or in the gym. Have students do ten sets of ten different exercises (i.e.,

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Hope, Happiness And Social Connection: Hidden Benefits Of Regular Exercise

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In her new book, The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage, the Stanford University lecturer offer new motivation to get moving that has less to do with how we look, or feeling duty-bound to exercise, and everything to do with how movement makes us feel. 1) Activate pleasure.

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Improve Student Learning With Organization Systems and Checklists

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As a teacher and autism consultant, I have found that additional visual supports beyond schedules, including organization systems and visual checklists, are among the most effective ways to help students succeed. Visual schedules, organization systems and checklists—what’s the difference? What system should I use?

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