Key Feature 4 – Resources

Key Feature: Ensure that all students are greeted at least once per day.  

Handouts

This handout (pdf), from PBIS, is a good explainer of personalized greetings, basic steps you can take, as well as variations of greetings you can use.

This handout (pdf) is a lesson fourth grade teachers can use to help students identify their emotions.

Videos

This 4-minute video, above, highlights the research that has been conducted on the use of greetings and discusses how teachers can fit this strategy into their busy schedule.

Websites

This website is useful in breaking down negative emotions, how to understand them, and how to accept them.

This website provides useful ideas for in the classroom and at home when teaching children about emotions.

This website provides information on mentally cultivating kindness towards yourself and others.

This website provides a short practice for mindfully exploring your emotional experience when you help a student