Wellness and Balance
It is essential that schools acknowledge, face, and work to address the many sources of unhealthy and even dangerous stress and anxiety that disrupt and unbalance students', and teachers',  lives.

​Webinars

A Values-Based Learning Culture 

​Blogs

• Difficult Questions About Student Stress and Anxiety, January 7, 2019
• Our New Child Labor System and the Harm it's Doing- Let's End This, November 27, 2017
• Revisiting Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, July 13, 2017
• What's Dangerous About the Grit Narrative and How to Fix it, March 3, 2014*

​*Resources written, produced, and released by Peter Gow

​Professional Development

Cohort Courses

• Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls: Join Dr. Lisa Damour on a journey through her brand new book, Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls. As readers move through the layers of girls’ lives, they’ll learn about critical strategies that will help girls alleviate or prevent anxiety attacks, alongside tips on how to shield them from perfectionism and the toxic pressures to which our culture— including we, as educators—subjects girls.​

​On-Demand Programs

• Engaging Girls in STEM: Tinkering: This program is focused on exposing educators to the world of tinkering and how to develop the proper environment for students to explore tinkering. This includes learning about the gender differences in the field, the importance of making mistakes, and learning about the life skills that come along with tinkering. 
• Girls and Self-Care: Body Image: Body image is a topic all educators need to feel comfortable to approach when trying to achieve wellness and balance in the classroom. This program is centered around identifying the causes and consequences of dissatisfaction with ones' body and how to approach this topic through an educators lens. 
• Purpose and Resilience: A teacher can be one of the biggest supporters in a students' life. Purpose and resilience is a program all about understanding the teachers' role in helping a student find their purpose and how to motivate students throughout the process. 
• Relationships: Girls and Their Peers: This program goes through and analyzes the different aspects of the friendships in a girls' life including stress, popularity, and conflict. 
• Romantic Relationships, Self-Advocacy and Consent: Not all schools have or are able to have comprehensive sex education, but still need to be able to teach students how to maintain healthy relationships. With this program, educators will go through the limitations of non-comprehensive sex education and how that can affect student relationships, while also being provided school-based approaches to discussing consent and preventing relationship violence.
• Shielding Students from Stereotype Threat: Guided by Ann Klotz, Head of School at Laurel School and Dr. Lisa Damour, Director of Laurel's Center for Research on Girls, this course will allow educators to gain a conceptual understanding of stereotype threat, learn the conditions necessary to create stereotype threat, understand how stereotype threat interferes with test performance, and learn what educators can do to minimize stereotype threat

​E-Books & Research Papers

• A Teacher's Guide to Life and Work​ (*ICG)​ by Peter Gow, a sample of what a balanced classroom looks like. 

*Resources written, produced, and released by the Independent Curriculum Group

Podcasts

Currently none, but stay tuned for some coming soon! Refer to the other resources at the time being.