Angela Kulcsar walks through a portable toolkit of visual cards educators can use during a student's emotional crisis. The set includes coping strategies, feeling choices, breathing exercises, and a readiness-to-return prompt, all designed to keep on a lanyard so teachers can de-escalate with minimal talking.
I am so happy with this set of visuals. This is really everything you need for de-escalation in one spot. We have coping strategies, a feeling choice board, next steps, logical consequences, a few breathing cards right here ready to go, feelings check-in, and then are you ready to come back to class. So having this all ready to go, you could keep this with you on your lanyard So during de-escalation, you could use minimal verbal, rely on visuals, and have all your strategies ready to go.
