Hello Staff We are encouraging teachers

and staff-a-like to play with activities and

strategies that support your life-work
integration, as well as our students
engagement and productivity.
Why?
Life-work integration strategies and focused-attention practices positively impact our
emotional states, productivity, engagement and learning. They refocus our neural
circuitry with either stimulating or quieting practices that generate increased activity in
the prefrontal cortex, where problem solving and emotional regulation occur.

INCENTIVES
Raffle tickets found in the Mail Room
Fill out a raffle ticket for each time you participate.
(Can enter multiple times daily).
Fill out a raffle ticket for students that are active
participants or leaders.
Weekly random drawings for prizes such as fitbits,
smoothies, massages, etc..

EXAMPLES to get you going:

Wellness activities outside of teaching and
classroom setting:
1. Take 10 deep breathes in and out of nose.
Concentrate on filling your belly up with air and
exhaling to make your belly concave. See how
slowly you can do so.
2. Take a 10 minute walking or stretch break.
3. Spend 10 minutes standing and talking with a
colleague about something positive and totally
unrelated to work.
4. Write about the things you are thankful for in your
gratitude journal.
Teaching/classroom activities fall in three
categories:
1.classroom transition activities
2.re-focusing breaks and

3.content review opportunities

Examples of Content Review Opportunities that
support life-work integration:
o Stand up meetings with small groups or partners
to review content.
o Take a walk around the classroom to think and
review X - when you return to your seat, be
ready to share X.
o Gallery Walks
o Relay race brainstorm student teams relay to
board to write answers
o Students move to and stand in different parts of
the room to indicate where they stand on an
issue discuss and share their opinions (think
Likert)
Examples of classroom transition activities:
o Everyone takes turns in getting up to get
supplies
o Students stand and stretch when teacher is
setting up, having technical difficulties or .
o Take a few moments of quiet and centering time
when students enter your classroom after
passing period and lunch
Examples of re-focusing break activities only
takes a moment and increases student
engagement prepares student brains for learning

o Take a moment to center students and listen to

ones breath, reflect on how ones space has
changed
o Lunges with each leg moving back heel on and
off ground (calf muscle acts as pump like the
heart to get blood flowing)
o Any yoga position or other stretch you are willing
to try including arm circles, side stretches,
triangle pose, forward bends reaching arm to
opposite leg, shoulder rolls and neck stretches,
brushing arms and legs like your removing
cobwebs or tapping fist on arm and leg muscles,
arm swings, eagle pose
o Massage face and ears and open face muscles
by opening up mouth and eyebrows