I'm a Good Kid!™ Wellness Program

The I’m a Good Kid!™ training is ideal for Professional Development Days or Teacher Institute Workshops! The interactive session will provide teachers and administrators with innovative and cutting edge techniques to promote teacher reflection while improving student behavior and prioritizing academic achievement. Presenter Carla Tantillo gives an in depth look at her 7 strategies to promote positive student behavior through whole child, wellness centered education. Learn more about the I'm a Good Kid!™ Wellness Program!

Professional Development

Educators receive professional development training in utilizing wellness activities to promote positive student behavior in only 8-10 minutes each day! Implementation of this program helps teachers meet the Movement Education and Federal Wellness requirements.

In line with our mission to put wellness in the hands of students and teachers from all walks of life, we offer the following three approaches to our professional development services:

Whole School Approach

Targeting teachers, school staff, students and their families in an approach to positively redesign school culture. This approach helps administrators and teachers create an authentic, cohesive and sustainable school wellness model.

Specific Population Approach

Focusing on teachers and school staff to promote the positive behavior and wellness of specific student and community populations. This approach is specifically effective for special education learners or students with health risks such as obesity or diabetes.

Individual Approach

Identifying individual students, teachers or school staff and providing self-care and stress-management tools. This approach works well to prevent teacher burn-out or to create effective modifications for student IEPs.

Hip-HopYoga

Hip-Hop Yoga fuses urban dance moves with yoga poses, yogic breath-work, and relaxation techniques. Students spend equal time learning mind-body exercises to center and relax them and hip-hop choreography to prepare them for an ensemble performance.

The familiar hip-hop rhythms and choreography hook the students with high-energy opportunities for invention. The incorporation of yoga poses into the choreography, focusing breath-work, and final relaxation activities expose students to an inner quiet that leaves them feeling composed, connected to their peers, and at ease. A brilliant blending of two seemingly disparate cultures, Hip-Hop Yoga has found a following in students as young as first-grade and as mature as high-school.

Yoga Wellness

Yoga wellness teaches students a full array of yoga poses that energize, focus, and relax them. Students take leadership roles in class, learning how to instruct their peers in poses and how to effectively sequence poses to create a yoga routine. Yoga wellness challenges students to strengthen and open their bodies, to connect with their peers through yoga games and discussion, and to discover the joy and fun of this ancient practice. In addition, students practice focusing breath-work and relaxation exercises that turn their attention inward and expose them to inner stillness and calm.

Students with Special Needs

Participants with either or both physical and mental challenges explore the use of yoga to promote positive behavioral choices.

RTI (Response to Intervention) Strategies

Teachers will utilize yoga and wellness activities as intervention strategies to positively change inappropriate student behavior.

Fitness Wellness

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

Anger Management

Students learn to cultivate alternative methods for expressing themselves and diffusing aggressive behavior.

Mindfulness

Participants raise awareness of their thoughts and actions in relation to holistic health.