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Contents:
 Explore Behavior Bytes for targeted strategies and evidence-based training on social-emotional behavior (SEB) multi-tiered supports.
The Behavior Bytes newsletter is a “byte” (concentrated) size educational tool, packed with interactive virtual training and FREE tools. You can download, print, and reuse to increase skills and strategies for helping students and adults with social-emotional behavioral tiered supports.
Hope and Resilience
Are developed through the context of supportive relationships.
Essential strategies for building positive social-emotional behaviors that increase empowerment in a person’s voice and choice in their story, resulting in a school system that actively reduces and resists re-traumatization for ALL!
Economically feasible and proven to improve the whole school, child, and adult wellbeing.
All people come to the school environment with both risk and protective factors. School-wide (Tier I) practices are about setting up protective (positive/safe/consistent) factors in the physical, academic, social, and emotional learning environment.
 FIVE ways to help students practice and develop hope:
- Teach students how to identify and prioritize goals.
- Break down the goals into achievable steps.
- Teach problem-solving skills, so students understand how to overcome obstacles.
- Share stories of success with students.
- Emphasize staying positive and enjoying the process.
How to Help Students Develop Hope, Zakrzewski (2012).
Hope Research Center, University of Oklahoma.
VIDEO: What is your hope?
Download the RESILIENCE infographic on your digital device or in print to access as a resilience reminder tool.
Resilience can be taught and strengthened at any age. Use these strategies and the ACT Resilience Activities to help students and families increase social-emotional wellbeing.
To help develop hope and build resilience, practicing self-care is vital for this growth to happen.
COMPASSION- Self-compassion is the ability to treat yourself with care and kindness. Actively practicing self-compassion helps you to feel happier, less stressed, and move beyond your mistakes to try again.
AWARE - Being mindful is one way to practice compassion and self-care. Incorporate these 8 Mindful Practices into daily work and personal space. These are easy to use with students.
RESPECT yourself - Use this OSDE Self-Care infographic to create a holistic My Self Care Plan.
EMPATHY for self and others - Empathy heals us, and sympathy diminishes us; Empathy is the ability to stay present with another person's feelings. Sympathy is feeling pity or sorrow for someone's suffering. Empathy connects us, and sympathy drives separation. (Brene' Brown, 2013).
Make it a priority to “BE A HUMAN BEING rather than A HUMAN DOING.”
 VIDEO on Self-Compassion
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