Classroom Strategies

Universal Classroom Strategies for Mental Health Awareness and Bullying Prevention

April 1, 2026

Children’s Wisconsin’s free health e-learning content provides a fun and engaging way to engage students is health education. Lessons, games and activities are organized by grade level, and some is available in Spanish. All content is brought to you by the health education experts at Children’s Wisconsin, one of the leading pediatric health systems in the country. Children’s E-Learning Center content brings important health and wellness concepts to life for students in five topic areas, including mental and emotional health, and bullying prevention. Mental and emotional health content is divided into grade level and includes interactive lessons, activities and games focus on education about mental and emotional health and raising awareness of common mental health issues.

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Center for Racial Justice in Education

April 1, 2026

CRJE’s partnerships with districts, schools, organizations, and community members result in empowered educators and leaders who are better equipped to shift classroom dynamics, re-write curriculum, and redesign institutional policies and practices in support of all students. Sign up on their website for free access to resources for your classroom.

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Toolkit for Making Space: Guide for School Affinity Groups

April 1, 2026

This toolkit describes how affinity groups help marginalized students to be seen and heard and provides step-by-step recommendations on how to launch an affinity group—or revamp one that already exists—at your school.

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Supporting the Mental Health and Well-being of Youth with Developmental Disabilities

April 1, 2026

Resources on this site’s webpage are designed to promote best practices for supporting people with developmental disabilities and includes best practices for promoting mental health and well-being in the DD community.

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School Avoidance and Student Anxiety: Strategies for Educators – Document Library

April 1, 2026

This content is geared toward mental health professionals who work with children and adolescents. Even if you’re not a mental health professional, you can gain knowledge and insight on how this type of anxiety effects students.

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Making Connections: ADHD and Accommodations – Document Library

April 1, 2026

This course includes a recorded learning session with Child Psychiatrists from Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. This course is designed to equip educators with the tools and knowledge to effectively support students with ADHD. Identify key ADHD symptoms in the classroom, tailor accommodations to meet specific needs, and navigate the differences between 504 Plans and IEPs for providing structured support, and foster a supportive learning environment that empowers students with ADHD to thrive academically and socially.

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The Conscious Kid Children’s Book List

July 15, 2025

Children’s book list for educators to reference in their efforts to by culturally-affirming and responsive in the classroom all year long.

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Social & Emotional Learning: Classroom Strategies

July 15, 2025

These short courses, tools and resources make up key components of a school that has a healthy culture and climate, which supports students’ academic and emotional well-being. Learn about creating safety, promoting emotion regulation, and reasons for providing calm spaces for students, and get an overview of adult social and emotional learning.

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Making Culturally Responsive Teaching More Manageable

July 15, 2025

Zaretta Hammond explains why one of the biggest challenges teachers struggle with when first embracing this approach is trying to operationalize it in their classrooms. They worry that they have to learn 19 different cultures – their customs, holidays, foods, and language. This simply isn’t true. The other instinct is to reduce it to a set of checklists for each culture as a way to make it manageable. Cultural responsiveness is more of a process than a strategy. The process begins when a teacher recognizes the cultural capital and tools students of color bring to the classroom. She then responds positively by noticing, naming and affirming when students use them in the service of learning. The teacher is “responsive” when she is able to mirror these cultural ways of learning in her instruction, using similar strategies and tools to scaffold learning. The author offers three easy starting points to help make the process more manageable.

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Calm Down Corner

June 30, 2025

One way to help children learn how to self-regulate is by providing them with calm down corners. A calm down corner is a designated space in a home or classroom with the sole intent of being a safe space for a child to go to when they feel their emotions are running too high and they need to regain their emotional and physical control. Gain some tips for creating a calm down corner in this short article.

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