For K-12 Schools
Building Personal Resilience to
Reduce Stress in the Schools
HeartMath is a science-based practice that focuses on creating coherence between your heart and mind, thus allowing you to learn how to build resilience and better regulate your emotions and how you react to stress. Tuning into your heart’s wisdom creates a profound shift within that helps you approach situations with more emotional balance, compassion, clarity and personal confidence. HeartMath is an incredible tool for teachers and students to learn personal resilience and self-regulation of emotions and to reduce stress.​​​
Teachers and students learn some easy-to-master techniques that strengthen their heart-mind connection and improve coherence, building resilience to stress and finding themselves better able to manage life and school daily stressors.
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HeartMath is taught in small groups by a trained facilitator who has been certified by the HeartMath Institute. Teacher training is delivered through Professional Development Seminars and we work with students either through in-school student health fairs or in-school curriculum developed by the HeartMath Institute.
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How much does it cost?
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, HeartMath (TM) Training is free to schools, teacher unions, PTAs and student clubs and groups in Lorain and Cuyahoga Counties, Ohio.
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Student Curriculum
Smart Brain Wise Heart™ (Ages 9-16)
Smart Brain Wise Heart™ (SBWH) was developed specifically for the challenging middle and high school years when students grapple with the onset of puberty and adjustment to new schools, multiple teachers, and changing peer relations.
SBWH is both an online and classroom-facilitated social and emotional learning program. Students learn at their own pace while instructors reinforce key self-regulation skills in the classroom. It draws on the best of young people’s brains and hearts to help empower them to make smarter decisions, gain greater self-control, and navigate the academic and social dimensions of life with greater success.At the heart of SBWH are short and engaging whiteboard animation videos that present key ideas and practices in important social and emotional learning competencies. With abundant support from a variety of enrichment activities, instructors can choose the type of course lessons that best address the diverse needs of the students in the classroom.
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SBWH is a blended learning program for students, ages 9-16, that combines a printed Leader’s Kit for teacher-led instruction along with a fully developed online learning program. Different strands of instruction deepen the learning experience, including review and discussion, activity worksheets, illustrated articles, practice opportunities, project-based action assignments, learning-based scenario videos and assessments. With the online 24-question pre- and post-Student Opinion Survey to gauge student progress, educators can statistically evaluate the program’s effectiveness.
"As a 30-year veteran employee in a large school district, I believe Smart Brain Wise Heart is one of the best classroom offerings I have ever given. My upper elementary and middle school students are loving this program. They are engaged and enthusiastic about what they are learning."
– Maria I. Arisso, school social worker,
Miami Dade Public Schools​
Teacher Professional Development
Teachers have a great responsiblity to teach our kids and help them prepare students for a successful life as an adult. The effects of a tumultuous political environment and "culture wars" affecting our schools, teacher stress is increasing and "burn-out" is becoming an increasingly of issue. According to Cleveland.com, a state report found 10.5% of teachers in Northeast Ohio urban districts left the profession in 2021, an increase of 2.4% over the five-year average attrition. In suburban districts, teacher attrition was 7%, up 1.7% from the five-year average.
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That's why we want to help. Our 3-hour Professional Development Seminar for teachers uses HeartMath techniques to strengthen teacher resilience and help them better cope with the stress of their responsibilities. As a result, teachers are better able to help students cope with the stress of school and growing up in a changing world.
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HeartMath techniques are taught in small break-out groups by a Certified HeartMath Coach and former public school teacher during the seminar so that teachers receive personal attention and instruction in a personalized way. Thanks to our generous donors, Teacher Professional Development Seminars are free to schools.
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Mental Health Literacy Training
for Educators
Mental Health Literacy is about having the knowledge and understanding the science and beliefs about mental disorders which facilitate recognition, management and prevention. Mental health literacy illustrates the connections between these 3 basic components.
Mental Health Literacy training includes:
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Overview of the current Youth Mental Health Crisis
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The ability to recognize specific disorders;
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Where to go for mental health information;
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Knowledge of risk factors and causes;
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Information regarding professional help and treatments, and
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Knowledge of effective coping skills,
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Examination of attitudes that promote recognition
