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Cost: $44
Modules: 5
CPE Credit Hours: 12

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  • TCEA certificate

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Cultivating Calm
This course helps educators expand their knowledge of stress management tools and strategies while seeing them in action. The first three modules focus on understanding how stress affects well-being and practical techniques for managing it in your own life, both in and out of the classroom. The final two modules guide you in applying these strategies with your students to foster a more balanced, peaceful, and mindful learning environment across any subject and grade level.

 

What You Will Learn:

  • Identify stress triggers and strategies to alleviate tension
  • Use focused breathing techniques to calm or energize yourself
  • Connect breathing practices to manage stress in various situations
  • Implement stretches and activities in the classroom to reduce sedentary habits and promote calm
  • Foster a peaceful classroom environment to help students regulate mood and restore balance
  • Equip yourself and your students with practical tools to integrate throughout the day

 

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  • Our courses are streamlined for efficient and lasting learning.
  • We share ideas and resources that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.
  • We also offer ideas and techniques based on years of experience in professional development, integrating educator feedback to always meet the needs of course participants.

Self-Paced Online Course

Cultivating Calm is a self-paced, online program. Participants can begin anytime and go at their own speed throughout the program.

Upon enrollment, you will receive a program invitation email from TCEA’s learning management system that will give you access to the self-paced course. Within the course, you will find modules that must be moved through in sequential order.

 

Course Modules

Fill Your Own Cup First: Examine how cultivating calm can mitigate stress effects on the body and overall well-being, recognizing that to serve others, you must care for yourself first.

Focusing on the Breath: Learn various breathing techniques to calm or invigorate, providing tools to help students when they feel overwhelmed.

Let’s Get Moving: Connect breath to movement with proper alignment and stretches that can be done anywhere, including at your desk and in the classroom.

Regulate and Restore in the Classroom: Learn specific activities to help students regulate their mood and restore calm in just five minutes per day.

A Balanced Life Beyond the Classroom: Develop tools to recognize and prevent daily stressors, extending a balanced approach to a healthy mind, body, and spirit.