Resources for Educators

Tips for Teaching Students with Learning Differences

This reference sheet identifies some of the signs of learning differences and provides strategies you can use to help students reach their full potential.

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Creating a Supportive Learning Environment for Your Students

As an educator, you are in a unique position to positively impact the mental health of your students, especially those with anxiety and anxious tendencies.

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Learners with ADHD: Effective Strategies for Educators

Building a learning environment structured to support learners with ADHD can help boost student confidence and academic achievement.

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Handle With Care: Supporting Young People During Crises

The entire community is responsible for protecting and supporting children, especially in times of crisis. In empathizing with families, educators and community members who must respond to the needs of children as a traumatizing event unfolds, Learning for Justice gathered recommendations and resources to help guide conversations with young people and to manage potential subsequent actions and reactions. Read more ›

Managing Mental Health & Behavior in the K-8 Classroom

Increasingly, educators are being asked to manage not just the academic and social-emotional wellbeing of their students, but also address mental health challenges and learning differences in the classroom. Read more ›

Online Resource Center for Current and Prospective College Students With Disabilities [web resource]

The National Center for College Students with Disabilities (NCCSD) is a federally-funded, national resource for future and current college students and graduate students with any type of disability, chronic health condition, or mental or emotional illness. Read more ›

A Trusted Space: Professional Learning and Curriculum for California Educators [web resource]

A Trusted Space is a 60-minute mini professional development program designed to help teachers and other youth-serving adults work together with students to create trusted atmospheres where healing and learning happen naturally.
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30 Days Of Mental Health Lessons Library [web resource] [downloadable]

These downloadable lessons from the TREP Project are a resource for educators to enhance student mental health literacy. Read more ›

What’s the Role of Teachers in Supporting Student Mental Health?

What’s a healthy balance of teaching and mental health support that will help students thrive while keeping teachers’ jobs manageable?  Edutopia talked to teachers and mental health experts to find answers. Read more ›

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