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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
ng
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
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 [email protected]
Cathy Seifert-Kelba Career & Technology [email protected]
Mary Ann Fullerton CBE [email protected]
Monti Tanner CBe-learn [email protected]
Angela Takla Learning Leader [email protected]
Contact Information
Meetings take place from 6:30 - 7:30pm. December 11, 2015February 4, 2016March 10, 2016April 14, 2016May 12, 2016
Town Hall Meeting Dates
