Key 1:
Strategy: Promote an Attitude of Positivity.
Reasoning: Your attitude determines the state of the world you live in.
Reasoning: "Success Thoughts" are short statements that have inspired generations of people.
Action: Include a "Success Thought" every day during the morning announcements.
Action: Encourage your students to download the whole collection of "Success Thoughts."
Key 2:
Strategy: Create an Environment of Positivity.
Reasoning: Your brain responds to your environment based on emotional memories.
Reasoning: When you disrupt the norm, it trains your brain to respond to new triggers effectively.
Action: Display motivational posters in highly-trafficked areas throughout your school.
Action: Change or rotate messages to disrupt the norm and provide new positive emotional triggers.
Key 3:
Strategy: Prioritize Literacy.
Reasoning: Reading is a key area of development for children and is vital to cognitive thought processes of logic and reasoning.
Reasoning: Books unleash the imagination, foster creativity, and teach critical thinking.
Action: Make reading a central focus of the school day.
Action: Reward reading accomplishments with certificates and awards. (CLICK Here to access fillable PDFs.)
Key 4:
Strategy: Manage Stress Effectively.
Reasoning: Childhood stress has profound implications for students.
Reasoning: Extensive biological research that shows that chronic and severe stress can become toxic to developing brains.
Action: Promote a positive learning environment to help reduce stress.
Action: Utilize simple, quick stress management techniques during the school day in the normal course of classroom instruction.