Calm Classroom

Overview

Luster Learning Institute’s Calm Classroom program is a research-based curriculum of 30 second to 2 minute breathing, concentration, relaxation and stretching techniques designed to help students and educators develop self awareness, mental focus, inner calm and cooperative behavior. Calm Classroom is implemented in the classroom on a school wide basis through teacher professional development training, student classroom mentoring, and the development of a long-term support structure for the administration. The Calm Classroom program addresses various issues such as:

Calm Classroom is serving 42,000 students in 70 Chicago and suburban schools. In Chicago Public Schools, where over 80% of students are from low income households, research has shown dramatic decreases in suspensions, classroom misconduct and improved standardized test scores.

Calm Classroom is a social and emotional learning program that integrates with current Response To Intervention (RTI) and Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) behavioral programs.

Individual teachers can also purchase the curriculum and implement the program directly in their classrooms.

Calm Classroom at Two Inner City Chicago High Schools

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Teachers

The Calm Classroom curriculum consists of short, 30 second to 3 minute breathing, concentration, stretching and relaxation techniques. Consistent practice of the techniques has demonstrated significant reduction in behavioral disturbances that prevent teachers from effectively educating students. Students and teachers use the techniques at home and in peer group interactions, and report feeling relief in situations that previously triggered upset.

Students and teachers experience:

• Calm classrooms and peaceful school environments
• Balanced emotions and healthy relaxed bodies
• Focused minds and academic excellence

There are three Calm Classroom manuals that cover the spectrum of teacher and student needs from kindergarten through high school.

 

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Administrators

School administrators are in need of research based programs that will help students and teachers cope with and manage the various social and emotional challenges that are brought to the classroom. Under the stress of family and modern school demands, even the best teachers are challenged to educate and the best students struggle to learn. Calm Classroom is a data driven model that is unique in its emphasis on supporting the development of social and emotional competence and mental focus within students, as well as teachers and administrators.

This proactive curriculum is:

• Cost-effective, simple to learn, and easy to implement
• Successful due to ongoing, long term support and evaluation
• Quick and easy to implement in the classroom
• Rooted in research and results
• Developmentally designed for kindergarten, elementary, middle school and high school

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Social Workers

Social workers are often involved in development and overseeing implementation of school wide social and emotional learning curriculum. Calm Classroom is a universal intervention that can be implemented by itself or to enhance the effectiveness of a more diversified social emotional learning curriculum.

Social workers also work with students and parents in one on one and small group settings. Each technique in the Calm Classroom manual is suited for these situations. The techniques offer various calming strategies that students can engage in on their own or with their parents at home. Social workers can work one on one with the most problematic students, teaching and modeling calming techniques that may not be absorbed in a large classroom setting.

Benefits include:

• Helping students develop skills to deal with stress over the course of their lives
• Improved student focus
• The development of greater student self awareness and inner calm

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