{"id":79,"date":"2021-02-03T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T01:50:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Everyday Mental Health Classroom\u00a0Resource\u00a0&#8211; Secondary Edition\u00a0offers a collection of high-quality, everyday mental health practices to enhance students\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/educators\/learn-more\/explore-by-topic\/social-emotional-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social and emotional skills<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0These\u00a0practices align with the Ontario curriculum and\u00a0are\u00a0easily\u00a0incorporated\u00a0into\u202fclassroom routines.\u202f\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resource was produced by School Mental Health Ontario and the&nbsp;Ontario Secondary School Teachers\u2019 Federation (OSSTF).&nbsp;The practices are evidence-informed, co-created with teachers and school mental health professionals&nbsp;and&nbsp;have been&nbsp;vetted by youth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-focus-on-mental-health-at-school\">Why focus on mental health at school&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Teachers play an important role in the lives of students. As trusted and caring adults, teachers are well positioned to help students learn about and care for their mental health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Positive mental health is foundational to academic achievement, life skills, and overall well-being. The relationships and connections made with students will have a positive impact on student\u2019s mental health now and in the future.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/about-student-mental-health-in-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more&nbsp;about mental health and the role of schools<\/a>&nbsp;in Ontario in mental health promotion, prevention and intervention.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-is-social-emotional-learning\">What is social-emotional learning?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Social-emotional learning (SEL) that\u2019s culturally responsive helps students to develop the intra- and interpersonal skills they need to flourish throughout their life. When all students in a class or school learn about and&nbsp;practise&nbsp;social and emotional skills, their sense of belonging within the classroom, school and community improves.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also, by learning these skills, students learn to&nbsp;communicate in more positive and thoughtful ways, and they show respect for diversity of thought, culture, language, faith, identities and expression.&nbsp;Ensuring all students have a sense of belonging in their school community and classroom is vital for well-being.&nbsp;Learn more about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/educators\/learn-more\/explore-by-topic\/social-emotional-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social-emotional learning.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"share-your-feedback\">Share your feedback&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome feedback about the resource. If you find practices helpful or have comments that may help us improve, please&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/about\/contact-us\/\">submit your ideas<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Everyday Mental Health Classroom\u00a0Resource\u00a0&#8211; Secondary Edition\u00a0offers a collection of high-quality, everyday mental health practices to enhance students\u2019 social and emotional skills.\u00a0\u00a0These\u00a0practices align with the Ontario curriculum and\u00a0are\u00a0easily\u00a0incorporated\u00a0into\u202fclassroom routines.\u202f\u00a0 The resource was produced by School Mental Health Ontario and the&nbsp;Ontario Secondary School Teachers\u2019 Federation (OSSTF).&nbsp;The practices are evidence-informed, co-created with teachers and school mental health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"about-us-template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}