From Stressed Out to Stress Wise

<p><strong>Tight deadlines high expectations friction with peers family drama: With all these stressors on middle and high school students and few healthy outlets for releasing them it's no wonder they have trouble concentrating on schoolwork.</strong> But what if you could teach students long-standing field-proven ways to successfully navigate stress?</p><p>In this practical step-by-step guide authors Abby Wills Anjali Deva and Niki Saccareccia show you how to do just that by following their stress-wise framework--a model that all secondary-level educators can use to help both themselves and their students build their stress IQ or become better able to accept stress as an aspect of well-being and modulate their reaction to it.</p><p>Informed by the science of stress and resilience the practices of yoga and Ayurveda and the authors' own decades of work with students and teachers this book offers</p><p>* Scripts strategies and activities for developing students' vitality in the face of stress and encouraging them to make choices that serve the class's collective well-being rather than relying on short-term coping solutions.<br />* A flexible easy-to-implement system of learning cycles and phases to follow over weeks and months for optimal effectiveness.<br />* Comprehensive background information on the physiology and psychology of stress.<br />* Real-life examples of the stress-wise framework in action.</p><p>Learning in school is challenging enough without the exhaustion anxiety and distraction of stress added to it. <em>From Stressed Out to Stress Wise</em> includes everything you need to ensure that your students have the necessary skills resources and mindset to calmly and confidently thrive in the classroom and beyond.</p>