The R-Factor at NAHS

This time of year it is extremely important that we recognize the challenges as educators and our students face on a daily basis. The R-Factor Squad put together this email blast as a collaborative effort with a focus on resilience. We encourage you to use the R-Factor language to help our students Step Up and Get Your Mind Right on a daily basis. Below you will find some tips and resources to use as needed. We would love your input on integration of the R-Factor and how you are using it in the classroom or simple everyday interactions. If you have ideas or resources to share, please see a member of the R-Factor squad.

• Nutrition

• Hydrate - Water, water, water!

• Sleep!

• Move!

• Try to walk the halls and stairways a few minutes each day during lunch or plan - bring a friend!

• Resilience can help us manage the daily stresses we will encounter

• “Resilience is not a genetic trait. It is derived from the ways that children learn to think and act when faced with obstacles, large and small. The road to resilience comes first and foremost from children's supportive relationships with parents, teachers, and other caring adults. These relationships become sources of strength when children work through stressful situations and painful emotions. When we help young people cultivate an approach to life that views obstacles as a critical part of success, we help them develop resilience.”

• 5 Ways to Cultivate Resilience - from Edutopia

• Build supportive relationships with students

• Encourage reflection through personal stories.

• Help students (and their parents) learn from student failures.

• Bring discussions about human resilience into the classroom.

• Promote self-reflection through literary essays or small-group discussions.
  
  

• View your goals as a journey and not a destination. This time of the year, many of us have set some resolutions or goals for ourselves. It is helpful to think of reaching those goals as a journey. A journey is on-going process. You can better appreciate the distance you have traveled and the challenges you have faced along the way. Seeing your goals as a destination results in us seeing them as an endpoint or conclusion and we are less likely to continue those habits. In short, seeing goals as a journey will help you “build the skill” of resiliency.
  
  

• Bounce (or Trampoline) - 10 tips on how teens and adults can build resiliency. It is important to focus that being resilient is a skill that can be developed by everyone!

• Keep a gratitude journal. Becoming/Remaining grateful changes the brain. Start and end your day with three things for which you are grateful! :)

“Learning isn’t a way of reaching one’s potential but rather a way of developing it.”
~ Anders Ericsson

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
~ Maya Angelou

Preparation (growth) + Attitude + Opportunity + Action (doing something about it) = Luck

“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~Jim Rohn

Be Patient

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
~Saadi

• Armless Archer Video (from CBS news)

• Slideshow Presentation

Remember to nominate students and staff for our R Factor monthly drawings!

R-Factor Squad:

Michael Carr

Pat Samanich

Jacqui Loughry

Tim Mathews

Chad Schuler

Brian Finn

Paige Farwick

Brooke Holcomb

Chelsey Shidaker

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