67 E-Pulse Emotional Wellness Newsletter

Information for District 67 families and community members, in conjunction with the District 67 Emotional Wellness Committee and APT Student Parent Awareness.

January 2018

Happy New Year!

Did You Know...

The D67 E-Pulse back issues are available on the Emotional Wellness page on the district website

District 67 is implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in the 2018-2019 school year! What exactly is SEL? Click here for 25 Things to Know About SEL

Upcoming Events

Seeing Through the Vapor

Monday, January 29, 2018 10:00 am & 7:00 pm at Gorton Community Center. LEAD and LFHS are teaming up to tackle the myths, facts, and questions you have about e-cigarettes, JUULs, and vaping. Please join them for a constructive discussion around the topic. This event is open to parents and students.

Can't make it? Check out this video created by LEAD

Pay it Forward Night
Pay it Forward Night, formerly known as Family Game Night will be held Friday, February 9, 5-7:30 pm at DPM. The organization selected for this year's event is: Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH). NPH, Spanish for "Our Little Brothers and Sisters", is raising more than 3,200 orphaned, abandoned, and disadvantaged boys and girls in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. An additional 2,300 children who live outside the homes receive scholarships, meals and healthcare. For more information check out the website: https://www.nphusa.org

Parents and School... a Partnership

For Parents...

The Surprising Thing Google Learned About its Employees - and What it Means for Today's Students The top seven characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one's colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas.
Start the new year out right with Berkeley's Greater Good January 2018 Happiness Calendar! This calendar offers 31 research-tested tools and tips that are sure to jump start 2018.

For Staff...

Calm... Free Mindful Meditation site for Teachers! AMAZING! Give it try!
What do Kids Really Need to be Happy and Successful? Empathy Dr. Michele Borba writes in her new book Unselfie, "While we may be producing a smart, self-assured generation of young people, today's kids are also the most self-centered, saddest and stressed on record." What can teachers do about it?
Today's Students Might be Emotionally Unprepared Regardless of all the honors classes and A.P. courses they took in high school, or the science, technology and engineering classes they cram into their college curriculum, students today will not be fully prepared to compete in an increasingly global business environment. The problem - and the solution - is not intellectual. It's emotional.

A Dose of Emotional Wellness

For the Kids...

13 Children's Books That Encourage Kindness Toward Others
14 Books to Inspire Kids to Follow Their Dreams
17 Books to Inspire Kids to Change the World
50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know (books listed by age appropriateness)

January, 2018 Stall Street Journal

Technically Speaking

What is Your Phone Doing to your Relationships? New research is exploring how phubbing/ignoring someone in favor of our mobile phone-hurts our relationships, and what we can do about it.

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