Trauma-Engaged Practice & Co-Regulation
Co-regulation is when one person helps another manage their emotions through warm and responsive interactions. By learning and practicing co-regulation, educators can build healthier communities for our students and families.
Family Engagement Resources for Trauma-Engaged Practice & Co-Regulation
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Building Block 6: Co-Regulation
Emotional self-regulation, or managing our emotions and behaviors, is a critical factor in success at school and beyond. Co-regulation is when one person helps another manage their emotions through warm and responsive interactions. Helping caregivers learn and practice co-regulation can help build healthier communities for our students and families.
Family Inclusive Lesson Plan Template (For Social Emotional Learning Lesson)
This lesson planning template allows educators to think through the components needed for an SEL lesson to be family inclusive.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Lesson Inventory
This resource will guide you through the process of conducting an inventory of your SEL Lessons to ensure they contain components including family language and understanding, stories and teaching practices, and family relevant materials
Lesson Planning Best Practices for Teachers
Teachers play an important role in supporting their students as they connect their individual, familial and community experiences to new knowledge and classroom learning opportunities. Creating units and lessons that collaborate with families, community resources and Elders will foster learning at all academic levels. This resource provides a list of best practices, examples of how educators can encourage learning at home, and a tool to gather more information about families
Communication Tools Around Social Emotional Learning
These conversation starters and sample letters are tools that educators can use to start the conversation with families around social emotional learning.
Stronger Together Framework
The Power of School and Family Partnership in Alaska - This is a guide for school staff to integrate family partnership practices. This offers core building blocks, school-wide family partnership planning tools, and additional ideas on how to support family partnerships at a distance.
Transforming Schools: A Framework for Trauma-Engaged Practice in Alaska
This framework brings together lessons learned by school staff and community members within Alaska while integrating school-wide, trauma-engaged approach to improve academic outcomes and well-being for all students. Using stories, research, and best practices, this resource is designed for use by school/community teams seeking to make our schools a place of positive transformation and significant learning for each student.
The simplest example of co-regulation is when you have an anxious child sitting in your lap; taking a deep breath soothes them and you at the same time. Your calm engenders their calm.
Did you know?
Children look to the caring adults in their lives to help co-regulate their emotions and behaviors.
