CBe-learn Town Hall November 19, 2015. 2 To support the full CBe-learn community of teachers,...

CBe-learn Town Hall

November 19, 2015

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To support the full CBe-learn community of teachers, parents, staff and students to work together to promote the well-being and effectiveness of the entire school community, to enhance student learning and to facilitate cooperation among the concerned participants in all school programs.

Purpose of the Town Hall

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CBe-learn

CBe-learn Online

Sr. High Jr. High

CBEHomeschooli

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Career & Technology

Centre

Our Programs

Mental Health and Wellness at CBe-learn

Mental Health Prevalence in Youth

15-20% Canadian youth

Mental Health commission of Canada 2013

expected to increase to 50%

by 2020 Whitley et al 2013

How does Mental Health Impact Schools?

Emotional distress: anxiety, self harm, depression, suicide

Behaviours: bullying, violence, defiance, disengagement

RelationshipsAttendanceGraduation ratesAcademic Success

Whole-school approach to Wellness Student Support Services – 3 learning leaders Increase knowledge, skills and attitudes toward

mental health and wellness among all staff Increase help-seeking / advocacy skills among

students Wellness community – cross section of staff, looking

at ways to increase student voice and involvement Connection between Mental Health and Academic

Outcomes Data-informed decisions Wellness Grant (University of Alberta)

Wellness at CBe-learn

Our Process

Investigate

Plan

Action

Evaluate and Revise

Goals:1. staff awareness and use of effective strategies to support social-emotional wellness in students

2. student help-seeking skills, self-advocacy

3. students sense of belonging a positive relationships

Employ proactive strategies to support all members of our learning community and keep wellness top-of-mind:

Mental Health Literacy – Dr. Stan Kutcher

Mindfulness – Dr. Allan DonskyCognitive Behavioural ApproachSocial Emotional LearningOngoing, embedded professional

development Safe, Valued, Connected School Culture

Our Strategies

Brain Research has recently revealed that the brain reaches full maturation in one’s mid-twenties.

The frontal lobe of our brain (the chief “boss and commander”) develop at a slower pace than the rest of our brains.

The frontal lobe controls executive functions.

Executive Functions

Executive Functions Cont’d

Basic EF’s

Inhibitory ControlWorking Memory

Cognitive Flexibility

Advanced EF’s

Problem SolvingReasoning Planning

Understanding the teenage brain: The Prefrontal Cortex

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/surviving-the-teenage-brain

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Mental Disorder/Illness

Mental Health Problem

Mental Distress

No Distress, Problem, or Disorder

Mental Wellness Pyramid

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2013/06/06/when-is-stress-good-for-you-video/

What Stress is Good for You?

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Learning is more effective when educators …

provide a secure and positive learning environment that is motivating and engaging

minimize stress and fear at school

are responsive to the emotional needs of students

teach students social-emotional learning skills

What is Social Emotional Learning

www.casel.org

SEL Approaches and Outcomes

www.casel.org

Cognitive Behavioural Approach: Strong connection between thoughts,

feelings feelings and behaviours Identifying negative thinking and

replacing it with realistic and balanced thoughts

Requires support from and practise with adults

Effectively Managing Emotions

Explanatory StyleEvent

Permanent or Temporary

Pervasive or Specific

Personal or Impersonal

Automatic Negative Thoughts: ANTS! I’m such a loser! What’s wrong with me? Everyone hates me. She’s just saying that because she

feels sorry for me. Here I go screwing things up again…

Unhelpful thoughts

Event: Failed math test

Thought: I suck at mathFeeling: Discouraged

and incompetent Action: Don’t work

in classReaction of Others:

Accused of lazinessThought: I’ll never be able to do math

Feeing: Hopelessness

Negative Spiral

Adversity (Event: who, what, when and

where)

Belief (Thoughts – interpreting the

adversity)

Consequence (Feeling / action)

Employee A agrees to meet with Employee B Thursday after school to complete upcoming joint proposal deadline. Employee B is 20 minutes late.

I was feeling a lot of anger. At first I didn’t say a word and silently worked away. I was furious at being in this situation and uncomfortable with the silence. Eventually, I just made an excuse to leave early.

ABC Model

Adversity (Event: who, what, when and

where)

Belief (Thoughts – interpreting the

adversity)

Consequence (Feeling / action)

Teacher A agrees to meet with Teacher B Thursday after school to complete upcoming unit plan and report card comments together. Teacher B is 15 minutes late.

She is always doing this. She is so irresponsible and never keeps her word. She is taking advantage of me and I hate being stuck with her as a partner!

I was feeling a lot of anger. At first I didn’t say a word and silently worked away. I was furious at being in this situation and uncomfortable with the silence. Eventually, I just made an excuse to leave early.

ABC Model

Awareness – slow down and pay attention to what you’re telling yourself!

Track the kind of thoughts you typically have

What am I telling myself right now? What is making me upset?

Think Realistically

Catastrophizing Help students to challenge negative

thoughts Become Detectives:

What is the evidence that this thought is true? Am I confusing a possibility with a probability?

How likely is it to happen?

Thinking Traps

Possibility Response

What’s the worst that could happen? What’s so bad about that?

What is one thing I can do to help stop the worst thing from happening?

What’s the best that could happen?

What is one thing I can do to help the best thing happen?

What’s the most likely thing to happen?

What can I do to handle the most likely thing if it happens?

Consider Possibilities and Response

Think like a Vulcan!The probability of not getting into university based on one failed grade 8 math test is

0.4%

School-based Student Services Team Family Doctor Access Mental Health Kid’s Help Line ConnecTeen website

. . . and many more (see handout)

Pathways to care

Charlotte ArbucklePrincipal, All Programscbarbuckle@cbe.ab.ca

Cathy Seifert-Kelba Career & Technology caseifertkel@cbe.ab.ca

Mary Ann Fullerton CBE Homeschoolingmafullerton@cbe.ab.ca

Monti Tanner CBe-learn Onlinemrtanner@cbe.ab.ca

Angela Takla Learning Leader atakla@cbe.ab.ca

Contact Information

Meetings take place from 6:30 - 7:30pm. December 11, 2015February 4, 2016March 10, 2016April 14, 2016May 12, 2016

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