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How to Help All Students De-Stress Using the Re-Set Process—In Person or Virtually

Presented by Dyane Carrere, M.Ed.

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The Re-Set Process

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The Re-Set Process

A neurologically-based process that reduces stress chemicals in the brain and body resulting in improved focus and cognitive-emotional balance.

Big Picture of the Re-Set Process

• Has many different forms
• Both proactive and reactive
• For individuals and groups of various sizes
• Individually-guided and adult-guided
• For all students and for students with high intense needs
• Nuances for each
• Focus today is on the proactive, adult-guided, whole group form

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic…

• Some of your students had trauma histories
• Other students carried a variety of levels of stress
• The work you did had its own stressors and now….

How Does Stress Impact the Body and Brain?

• Vision increases, hearing decreases
• Emotion increases, thinking decreases
• Body is “on go”*
• Sense of time may be impacted
• Awareness of body in space may be impacted

The Re-Set Process Core Steps

1. Move
2. Modulate Down
3. Activate Thinking
4. Make a Plan

Time Commitment: Whole Class Re-Set

3-5 minute process. It is preferential to have more frequent, short sessions than longer, less frequent sessions.

The Science Behind Each of the Steps

Keys to Success

• Count
• Keep language minimal
• Keep voice warm, just above “calm”

Step 1: Move Your Body Activities

• Chair push-ups
• Wall push-ups
• Lunges
• Marching in place
• Arm circles
• Toe rises
• Weighted object lifts
• Helicopter
• Jumping jacks
• Isometrics
• Toe touches

Special Guidance for Step 1

• Think pattern, deep pressure and rhythm
• Be sure to only include movements that can be properly executed by students

Step 2: Modulate Down Activities

• Fine Motor Fiddle object practice
• Finger drumming
• Slower, smaller movement (arm circles, helicopter)
• Yoga position and hold (tree, warrior)
• Squeeze and release story

Step 3: Activate Thinking Activities

• Choral engagement
• Object focus and share
• Turn to a friend and share a ___________ (one word)
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Respond in chat with one word response to a simple question
• Sing a song, recite a poem

Special Guidance for Step 3

• Keep well within the skill set of all students – do not make challenging
• Allow for passes and repeats
• Can do a “call and response” style interaction with adults leading

Step 4: Make a Plan Activities

• Turn to a neighbor and share something we talked about in _____ yesterday
• Touch the materials you need
• Write down 1 idea related to…
• Plan your fiddle object use

When to Use the Whole Class Re-Set Process

• To start off the school day
• After an extended period of learning
• Transitioning from a higher energy activity (Recess, PE, lunch) to a learning activity

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