State Department of Education

Videos to Teach Students 5 Foundational Mental Health Skills

The California Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids project has produced an evidence-based video series with accompanying study guides. There are introductory videos for caregivers and educators, and videos to teach young people five clinically proven mental health skills. Our youth has never needed these foundational mental health skills more than they do right now.

Five topics are treated, each with multiple videos and supporting materials. Those topics are: Understanding Feelings, Understanding Thoughts, Relaxation Skills, Managing Intense Emotions, and Mindfulness. All videos and supporting materials are available in English and Spanish.

Want to know more, and how to access each of the video sets in either language? Come here and read all about it!

Engaging with Families

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction provides this excellent resource for engaging families: dpi.wi.gov/engaging-families. The web page includes a video on what effective family engagement could look like, as well as a useful handout and a video about a success story.

Video | Effective Family Engagement Could Look Like This

(2018) | Useful to Parent Centers and school systems interested in building strong family engagement practices in their children’s education and learning. This 5-1/2 minute video is a product of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). It discusses the need to shift the way schools partner with families to help students learn, moving from […]

Video in Spanish | Explaining the college and career readiness standards.

This 3-minute video in Spanish explains how the college and career ready state standards will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond. From the Arizona Department of Education. View the video: http://www.azed.gov/azccrs/2013/10/07/spanishversionvideo/

Serving on Groups

This website includes a set of useful tools for anyone who is currently serving, or wants to serve, on a decision-making group. This can include parents, students, educators, administrators, and community members. It was researched, developed, and written collaboratively by a broad stakeholder group of statewide agencies, school representatives and family members across Wisconsin. These […]