RULER Acronyms
Identifying emotions in oneself and others by reading facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and paying attention to signals in our bodies
What is Recognizing Emotions?
This tool helps build awareness of emotions in ourselves and others, expands our emotion vocabulary, and helps us manage our emotions. It also shows how emotions have two dimensions, the degree of pleasantness of our thoughts and the energy in our bodies.
What is the Mood-Meter?
What is Worried?
Individuals who have experienced a traumatic or extremely stressful event, this strategy can have a significant healing effect. In fact, participants in a study who did this strategy recalling their most traumatic experiences for 15 minutes, four days in a row, experienced better health outcomes up to four months later.
What is Writing Therapy?
These 3 goals created the basis by which schools should teach students SEL.
1. Develop self-awareness and self-management skills essential to success in school and in life.
2. Use social awareness and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships.
3. Demonstrate ethical decision-making skills and responsible behaviors in personal, school, and community contexts.
What are the SEL Benchmarks?
Knowing how and when to display or show our emotions, depending on who we are with, where we are and what we are doing
What is Expressing Emotions?
This tool teaches us to extend the time between feeling emotionally triggered and our reaction. Instead of being reactive this tool helps us pause, think of our best selves, and choose helpful ways to respond.
What is the Meta-Moment?
This emotion is high in energy and high in pleasantness. A synonym can be happy.
What is Cheerful?
Studies have shown that most people who try this strategy as a form of therapy or stress relief have experienced significant reductions in their cortisol levels when doing so.
What is drawing therapy?
These spaces are equipped with comforting objects and soothing materials that can promote mindfulness, breathing and reflection.
What is a a RULER Space/ Calm Down Corner?
Knowing the causes of emotions and how emotions influence our thoughts, actions and decisions
What is Understanding Emotions?
This tool is an agreement we make to act in ways that help us to feel the way we want to feel in our school or class, everyone has a voice in creating this tool and everyone has a responsibility to uphold it.
What is The Charter?
This emotion is low in pleasantness and semi low in energy. A synonym can be engrossed.
What is Disgusted?
This strategy can help you calm down by using your listening sense.
What is listening to music?
This monthly addition will include literacy and RULER so students can learn new emotional vocabulary words and reflect on a reading/SEL benchmark.
What is the Book of the Month?
Knowing and using effective strategies to manage our emotions
This tool provides a series of questions as a guide for reflecting on our thoughts and emotions during conflict. By practicing perspective-taking and empathy, we can have a compassionate conversation and work to restore relationships.
What is the Blueprint?
This emotion is low high in energy and semi high in pleasantness. A synonym can be calm.
What is Relaxed?
This strategy can help you feel happier when sad by using your sense of sight to recall a memory.
What is "look at a happy photo"?
RULER is a _____ select program that is research-based.
What is CASEL?
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is the nation's leading organization advancing the development of academic, social, and emotional competence for all students.
Connecting an emotional experience to specific feeling words to describe it
What is Labeling Emotions?
The Mood-Meter should be at this specific eye-level.
What is Student-Eye Level.
This emotion is low in energy and low in pleasantness. A synonym can be solitary.
What is Alone?
This strategy can help you release anger by using a pillow.
What is punching a pillow?
This daily addition will support a different benchmark component of SEL in the form of a mini-SEL lesson.
What is SEL Time?