 Did you know that 22% of children and adolescents struggle with disordered eating?* Unfortunately, this a real issue that educators and parents need to address even at a young age. But it can be tricky to tackle such serious topics with kids. Thankfully, books are a great tool to help us do just that.
Through Bluebird, his Food Voice, and the differences between a diet and a "live it," Julia Cook has written an age-appropriate book to start discussing disordered eating and healthy self-image. It's titled "How to Be Comfortable in Your Own Feathers," and it's a must have for your home or classroom!
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With "I Got This!" children can learn resilience and how to bounce back with their own superpowers, too!
"It's Hard to be a Verb" by Julia Cook gives students practical strategies to channel their energy in productive ways.
"Failure Friday" is just the story to help students learn that failure is chance to learn.
 In part one, we shared a great book for introducing career exploration to young elementary students. However, there's another great resource to share with you as well! If you're looking to dive a little deeper into career exploration with elementary students, look no further than
What Shoes Will You Wear? By Julia Cook, illustrated by Anita Dufalla  Where I live, teachers as young as kindergarten are required to start teaching about career skills. It can seem a bit daunting, adding that kind of pressure to a classroom of five-year-olds! I'm glad to have recently found two books that make career building and talking about the future approachable for kids, and today, we'll explore about the first one:
"There's No Dream Too Tall" By Amie Dean and illustrated by Sian James.
On your journey to teach students to be kind, "Will You Be the I in Kind?" written by Julia Cook and illustrated by Jomike Tejido is a phenomenal resource. Here's why and how to use it.
 One of the challenges of coping with anxiety is regulating the body's responses. This can be hard for kids, but it's important to teach children how to work with, rather than against, these natural responses.
Alex's story does just that and gives hope to students who may be struggling with anxiety, through kid-friendly strategies and models of reframing in the book Beat Beat Thump by Allison Edwards and Steliyana Doneva.  When I experienced my brain injury in 2022, I learned the hard way that your brain really impacts everything!
That's why I was so glad to see a book come out that teaches children just how our brains work and interact with the world to form our thoughts, feelings, and actions - really, our behavior. That book is "Your Amazing Brain" by Jessica Sinarski.  As a professional bridging the gap between behavior science and SEL, I am all about making emotional skills observable, measurable, and explicit. It can be really hard to take coping skills - a skill that comes naturally to some and often takes place internally - and break it down into concrete steps for instruction.
Recently though, I came across a diamond of a book that does just that, and I want to share it with you. It's called "Felix and the Feelings Formula" by Kate Bartlein. |
Meet JennyI'm a special education teacher turned BSEL coach. If I'm not geeking out on the research, I'm probably snuggling up on the couch with my husband and our two cats, Gibson and Binks. Categories
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