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Jin Shin Jyutsu for Classroom Teachers serves as one more tool in a teacher’s toolbox that can be used to help students be successful not only in the classroom, but in life. Incorporating the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu into daily classroom practices will change the way your students function on a daily basis. The practices outlined here are effective in any school setting, from a home school to the most traditional school environment.  Additionally students will not only benefit in the short term in

Positive words can have an enormous impact on students, and can actually lower stress and have actually create physiological changes in the brain. These affirmations are a quick way to provide students with a fresh, positive start for each day. There is benefit even if students don't fully believe the words they are saying. I have used this all the way through Middle School and the students might show resistance at first (probably because there is so much negativity that they hear every day) but

I've promised it for a while, and now it's here! Another set of affirmations. Please let me know what you think of these!

When your students think of the beginnings of America, they often think about the Pilgrims. You know, the God-fearing Christians who escaped the restrictive laws of the Church of England and set off for the New World to settle a land filled with heathens. The pilgrims, in a lot of people's minds, were the group of people who founded our country, who helped to establish our Christian nation. Well, is that really what happened? What settlement really holds the truth to the beginnings of "America?"

This writing prompt asks students to imagine they are working as a newspaper editor at the time of the Revolutionary War. Includes detailed directions. It is specific to North Carolina, but the state can be edited.

Do you have students struggling with grades or behavior? Is parent communication a challenge? This is one tool I use to help students, parents and teachers all stay on the same page. It requires teacher signatures for each class every day as well as a parent signature to acknowledge receipt of the checklist. As we all know, documentation is an important part of teaching, and hopefully this will help you.

This writing prompt asks students to consider the question of whether or not violence is justified if the end is a noble cause. It requires students to draw from examples in history. Research may be required to complete this writing prompt.

This poster will be created by students after studying the Revolutionary War. One of the sections is specific to North Carolina. Teachers may change or edit that block to meet their specific needs. Ideas include African Americans in the War, Women in the War and Indians in the War.