Classroom WISE Video Library

How Teachers Make Students Feel Welcome
One way to create a safe, supportive classroom is to help students feel welcome. In this video, students of various ages describe ways that teachers have made them feel welcome and included.
1min 11sec

How Teachers Can Show Interest
Teachers can help keep students engaged by showing interest. In this video, students of various ages describe ways that teachers have shown interest in them and their lives.
1min 10sec

Welcoming Students
One way to create a safe, supportive classroom is to help students feel welcome. In this video, teachers describe the strategies they use to individually welcome students each day.
3min 23sec

Elementary Active Listening
Active listening is a strategy that can help students feel valued in the classroom. In this video, a teacher demonstrates active listening in an elementary classroom.
46sec

Secondary Active Listening
Active listening is a strategy that can help students feel valued in the classroom. In this video, a teacher demonstrates active listening in a secondary classroom.
51sec

Elementary Praise
Behavior specific praise is a strategy that can positively help students understand the rules and routines of a classroom. In this video, a teacher demonstrates behavior speicifc praise in an elementary classroom.
33sec

Secondary Praise
Behavior specific praise is a strategy that can positively help students understand the rules and routines of a classroom. In this video, a teacher demonstrates behavior speicifc praise in a secondary classroom.
36sec

What Not to Do with Students in Distress
Understanding student perspectives can be key to creating a safe and supportive classroom. In this video, students of various ages discuss ineffective strategies teachers sometimes use in the classroom.
2min 2sec

Restorative Practices
Restorative practices can increase a sense of safety in the classroom. In this video, teachers describe how and when they have successfully used restorative practices with their students.
1min 17sec

What Makes a Great Classroom?
Understanding student perspectives can be key to creating a safe and supportive classroom. In this video, students of various ages discuss what they think makes a great classroom.
1min 42sec

Secondary Rules and Routines
Positively stated and developmentally appropriate rules can help students feel a sense of consistency in the classroom. In this video, a teacher demonstrates reviewing rules and routines in a secondary classroom.
1min 4sec

Bringing Mental Health Into the Classroom
The attitudes, knowledge, and feelings we have about mental health influence how we perceive and act toward people with mental illness. In this video, teachers discuss how they bring mental health into the classroom.
4min 27sec

Addressing Stigmatizing Language
Teachers can help guide students toward language free of mental health stigma. In this video, a teacher helps students identify and replace stigmatizing language in the classroom.
1min 11sec

Benefits of Social Emotional Learning
Teaching social emotional learning can lead to decreases in emotional distress, and improved self-control, emotion regulation, and problem-solving. In this video, teachers discuss the positive changes they have seen in students since incorporating social emotional learning in the classroom.
1min 18sec

Promoting Self-Regulation
Self-regulation incorporates stress management, impulse control, and goal setting to positively impact motivation and moderate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. In this video, teachers discuss strategies for promoting self-regulation in the classroom.
2min 30sec

Identifying Feelings
The ability to identify and regulate feelings is key to social emotional learning. In this video, a teacher helps a student identify both his feelings and strategies he can use to regulate his emotions.
2min 15sec

Letting Students Know You Are a Safe and Supportive Person
Students often look to teachers when they are experiencing distress. In this video, teachers describe how they let students know they are a safe and supportive person.
3min 21sec

Problems with Social Skills
Student distress can sometimes come from difficulties with social skills. In this video, teachers discuss how problems with social skills appear in their classrooms.
1min 45sec

Problems with Behavior Regulation
Student distress can sometimes come from difficulties with behavior regulation. In this video, teachers discuss how problems with behavior regulation appear in their classrooms.
54sec

Problems with Substance Use
Student distress can sometimes come from difficulties with substance use. In this video, teachers discuss how problems with substance use appear in their classrooms.
1min 57sec

How Do Teachers Make Students Feel Comfortable Approaching Them?
Though teachers can be a great source of support for students in distress, it may be difficult for students to seek out help. In this video, students of various ages discuss how teachers have made them feel comfortable approaching them.
1min 39sec

Supporting Students in Distress
Teachers can be great sources of support for students in distress. In this video, teachers describe how they initiate a conversation, listen non-judgmentally, provided reassurance, and come up with plans to support students.
1min 33sec

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
ACES stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences. These experiences can include things like physical and emotional abuse, neglect, household or community violence, and housing insecurity. In this video, experts in the field describe how ACES can impact health and learning.
2min 21sec

Creating a Sense of Safety in the Classroom
Demonstration of teacher creating a sense of safety in the classroom (e.g. warning before change in environment) (draft scripting below)
50sec

Creating Student Collaboration
Collaboration and mutiality is one of six key principles of a trauma-informed approach. In this video, teachers discuss how they create collaboration in the classroom.
2min 35sec

Creating Empowerment, Voice, and Choice
Empowerment, voice, and choice is one of six key principles of a trauma-informed approach. In this video, teachers discuss how they create empowerment, voice, and choice in the classroom.
3min 32sec

Creating a Culturally Inclusive Classroom
Addressing cultural, historical, and gender issues is one of six key principles of a trauma-informed approach. In this video, teachers discuss how they address cultural, historical, and gender issues in the classroom.
1min 14sec

Noticing Student Distress
It can be important for teachers to recognize the outside challenges students can bring into the classroom. In this video, teachers discuss how they recognized distress in their students.
1min 14sec

De-Escalation
Even when teachers provide extra supports and strategies, students may still become distressed in a way that could pose serious risk to themselves or someone else. In this video, a teacher demonstrates de-escalation strategies that can help students experiencing distress.
1min 21sec

Substance Use Strategies
In this video, an expert in the field discusses strategies that can be particularly useful for substance use challenges with a particular emphasis on referral and communication with families.
1min 58sec