Cooling Down Your Classroom Wellness Program

A 7-Step interactive training initiative uniquely designed to:

• Improve student behavior
• Prioritize academic achievement
• Promote teacher self-reflection

Ideal for Professional Development or Teacher Institute Workshops! Learn more about the Cooling Down Your Classroom Wellness Management Program!

Professional Development

Designed to equip teachers with tools necessary to promote positive behavior and mind/body wellness in the classroom by offering:
    

• Strategies to elicit positive behavior shifts in only 8-10 minutes a day
• Fulfillment of Movement Education and Federal Wellness requirements
• Approaches tailored to address the specific needs of different communities

Whole School Approach

For teachers, staff, students and families to cohesively redesign school culture, cultivating a sustainable commitment to wellness

Specific Population Approach

For teachers and staff, targeting a given student or community population, including Special Education learners or “at-risk” students and families, including those struggling with health concerns or environmental discord

Individual Approach

For individual students, teachers or staff to address self-care and stress-management; effective for preventing burn-out as well as evaluating and modifying student IEPs

Hip-HopYoga

A brilliant blend of two seemingly disparate cultures, Hip Hop Yoga offers students the mind-body centering and relaxation elements of yoga, combined with Hip Hop’s high-energy, athletic choreography.

Focusing on breath, balance, athleticism, creativity, teamwork and problem-solving, Hip Hop Yoga invites students of any age to merge the fun, fast pace of Hip Hop with the calm focus and meditation of yoga, expanding student awareness of their own creative potential, encouraging them to take ownership of their choices, and cultivating social skills. Working together, students use elements of dance and yoga to create an ensemble performance that reflects their unique choices and style.

All of our Hip Hop Yoga students are invited to perform at the Taste of Chicago! 

Yoga Wellness

Designed to teach students to use yoga as an effective tool to monitor their physical and mental states through the discovery of poses that ENERGIZE, FOCUS, and RELAX. Students take on the roles of leader and supporter, instruct their peers, give and receive compliments and constructive criticism. Students strengthen the physical body, their spatial and bodily awareness as well as bonds with their peers. Students also explore breath and relaxation techniques that turn their attention inward, revealing inner stillness and calm.

Special Needs

A program specially designed to address the needs of participants with non-traditional physical and/or mental capacities by using yoga elements of breath, focus, balance and mediation to promote increased bodily awareness and facility and positive behavioral choices.

RTI (Response to Intervention) Strategies

A guide to helping teachers facilitate intervention in conflict situations, teachers will be able to utilize elements of yoga, such as breath, focus and balance, and other wellness activities to bring student awareness to their individual feelings, actions and reactions. In addition, teachers are prepared with the tools necessary to promote positive student response and dissolve stress and conflict.

Fitness Wellness

Participants explore physical and mental wellness through tennis, golf and team sports activities.

Anger Management

Accessible for both students and teachers, the program is designed to cultivate alternate means of self-expression, with the sole purpose of diffusing aggressive behavior and presenting multiple non-violent solutions to conflict. Strategies focus on unveiling root emotions and discouraging the escalation of one’s tone, volume, language and body actions by implementing breath techniques and establishing trust among students through yoga-inspired activities.

Mindfulness

Designed to bring awareness to one’s thoughts and actions as they relate to holistic health, the program encourages the practice of a healthy lifestyle for the mind and body, including increased mindfulness of nutrition, movement, relationships and feelings.