Relaxation Skills for High School Students: How to Cope with Stress & Anxiety | Child Mind Institute
High schoolers manage a lot. They juggle schoolwork, extracurricular activities, jobs and relationships with friends and family. Parents can help students as they grapple with larger issues like forming their identity, gaining independence, and preparing for the future.
How can I help my teen build positive, healthy friendships? | Child Mind Institute
Experts and parents provide tips on how parents can help their child build healthy friendships.
How to Help Your Child Do Well In School | Child Mind Institute; Parent Learning Guide
Family Engagement to Support Student Engagement and Attendance
This brief summarizes a series of conversations designed to Raise the Bar for family engagement practices between school and home.
Understanding Thoughts: High School || Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids
Parents will be able to help their students learn about connections between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and how they can change thinking patterns to make them more helpful.
Tune Up: Evaluating Evidence: Skills on Demand
ELA/Literacy Support
The above resource is shares ways to review and determine whether the evidence that backs up a claim in a reading is sufficient, relevant, and credible and practice evaluating example passages.
Effective Paragraphs | Skills on Demand
ELA/Literacy Support
In this lesson, parents can help students learn how to write a paragraph that has both a topic sentence that “labels” its main idea and specific details to support and develop that idea, using real-world examples, short skill check activities, and a practice writing assignment.
Managing Intense Emotions: High School | Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids
Click the above link to watch a brief video on ways students and parents can learn to recognize and manage intense emotions without giving in to the urge to act in impulsive ways that can make problems bigger.
Mindfulness: High School || Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids
This video is part of the Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids Project, a series of video and print resources that caregivers and educators can use to teach their kids critical mental health and coping skills.
Claims and Support | Skills on Demand
ELA/Literacy Support
In this lesson, parents can assist students with exploring persuasive passages to determine how an author builds an argument. Students will identify evidence and evaluate whether it is relevant, and evaluate arguments to determine whether they are effective, using short readings, skill check activities and real-world examples.