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Tight deadlines, high expectations, friction with peers, family drama: With all these stressors on middle and high school students and few healthy outlets for releasing them, it's no wonder they have trouble concentrating on schoolwork. But what if you could teach students long-standing, field-proven ways to successfully navigate stress? In this practical, step-by-step guide, authors Abby Wills, Anjali Deva, and Niki Saccareccia show you how to do just that by following their stress-wise framework-a model that all secondary-level educators can use to help both themselves and their students build their ""stress IQ,"" or become better able to accept stress as an aspect of well-being and modulate their reaction to it. Informed by the science of stress and resilience, the practices of yoga and Ayurveda, and the authors' own decades of work with students and teachers, this book offers * Scripts, strategies, and activities for developing students' vitality in the face of stress and encouraging them to make choices that serve the class's collective well-being rather than relying on short-term coping solutions. * A flexible, easy-to-implement system of learning cycles and phases to follow over weeks and months for optimal effectiveness. * Comprehensive background information on the physiology and psychology of stress. * Real-life examples of the stress-wise framework in action. Learning in school is challenging enough without the exhaustion, anxiety, and distraction of stress added to it. From Stressed Out to Stress Wise includes everything you need to ensure that your students have the necessary skills, resources, and mindset to calmly and confidently thrive in the classroom and beyond.

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Abby Wills has dedicated over 20 years to integrating healing-centered contemplative practices and courses into public, charter, and private schools in Los Angeles and internationally. Her work spans from early childhood education to university teacher education departments, with a focus on high schools serving targeted youth. She holds a master's degree in human development with a specialization in social change from Pacific Oaks College. As co-founder of Shanti Generation and Peace Lab projects, Abby develops curricula focused on mindful life skills for adolescents. As a movement, mindfulness, and social-emotional development specialist, Abby facilitates professional development and training for K–12 educators and higher education faculty as well as support for parents and caregivers. Anjali Deva is an Ayurvedic practitioner and educator. Her private practice, Rooted Rasa, specializes in an integrative and trauma-informed approach to Ayurveda. She is the founder of Mādhya Way, a school for Ayurveda. Her compassion-based, holistic approach alleviates anxiety, depression, PTSD, digestive disorders, and women's health issues. Anjali was introduced to Ayurveda and yoga at a young age by her father and mentor, Arun Deva. Her clinical experience began at Hope Integrative Psychiatry, and she has trained with Kerala Ayurveda Academy, Loyola Marymount's Yoga and the Healing Sciences Program, and various teachers in the United States and India. Her passion for digestion and mental health helps others find their inner harmony and resilience for healing. Niki Saccareccia is the founder of Light Inside Yoga, which offers a therapeutic approach to wellness education. Since 2014, she has held the top credential in her field and serves as a continuing education provider through the Yoga Alliance. Niki has a background in behavioral psychology and spent her early career as a behavioral interventionist and clinical program manager. She sits on the medical team at Goodpath, an integrative, whole-person approach to pain management. She is the author of Roadmap to Mindful Living and the developer of a research-based curriculum for creating sustainable changes in well-being. Her pragmatic approach has been included at University of Southern California's Novus Think Tank and Loyola Marymount's master's degree program in yogic studies.

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