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Snowline outreach team presents connection and self‑regulation strategies for parents and students
Summary
An outreach member assigned to the Snowline Joint Unified district outlined four elements of connection, naming emotions, breathing and fidget strategies, visual supports and homework routines, and listed free local resources including IHG workshops and an online Boys & Girls Club.
An outreach team member assigned to the Snowline Joint Unified district presented strategies for helping children move from emotional or survival states into a calm, “executive” state so they can learn and self‑regulate.
The presenter said the “four elements of connection” are eye contact, presence, touch (with permission) and playfulness, and described steps parents and caregivers can use to name emotions, teach breathing techniques and create routines that support concentration at school and at home.
The outreach team member said many children enter the school day in an emotional or survival state and will not readily use self‑regulation tools unless caregivers model calm behavior. “In order to get them over to the executive state, we, as parents,…
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