Tight deadlines, high expectations, friction with peers, family drama: With all these stressors on middle and high school students and few healthy outlets for releasing them, it's no wonder they have trouble concentrating on schoolwork. But what if you could teach students long-standing, field-proven ways to successfully navigate stress? In this practical, step-by-step guide, authors Abby Wills, Anjali Deva, and Niki Saccareccia show you how to do just that by following their stress-wise framework—a model that all secondary-level educators can use to help both themselves and their students build their "stress IQ," or become better able to accept stress as an aspect of well-being and modulate their reaction to it. Informed by the science of stress and resilience, the practices of yoga and Ayurveda, and the authors' own decades of work with students and teachers, this book offers * Scripts, strategies, and activities for developing students' vitality in the face of stress and encouraging them to make choices that serve the class's collective well-being rather than relying on short-term coping solutions. * A flexible, easy-to-implement system of learning cycles and phases to follow over weeks and months for optimal effectiveness. * Comprehensive background information on the physiology and psychology of stress. * Real-life examples of the stress-wise framework in action. Learning in school is challenging enough without the exhaustion, anxiety, and distraction of stress added to it. From Stressed Out to Stress Wise includes everything you need to ensure that your students have the necessary skills, resources, and mindset to calmly and confidently thrive in the classroom and beyond. This book is a powerful combination of grounded scholarship, practical methods, and heartfelt advocacy for both teachers and students. It contains engaging case examples, excellent summaries on the science of stress, and clear descriptions of what teachers and students need to thrive in the classroom and in their lives. — David Treleaven , PhD, author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing A beautiful, straightforward guide to helping young people and those who love them to coregulate their way to mindful resilience. Widely inclusive in its explanation of often invisible stressors on all nervous systems, the wisdom in this book is both timeless and up-to-the minute in terms of its understanding of physiology, neuroscience, and strategies for addressing society's biggest challenges, starting with our students. — Dr. Chris Willard , author of Alphabreaths and faculty at Harvard Medical School From Stressed Out to Stress Wise is simply the best book I have seen on the market for middle school classrooms. The collective wisdom of Wills, Deva, and Saccareccia will no doubt become the benchmark for social and emotional learning. Clearly, they are experts in communicating with middle schoolers and those who teach them. I highly recommend this book. — Joanne Spence , MA, author of Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists: 47 Practices to Calm, Balance, and Restore the Nervous System and executive director of Yoga in Schools From Stressed Out to Stress Wise condenses years of classroom experience into a thoughtful, usable, powerful guide to growing embodied wellness, belonging, and sustainability in yourself, your students, your school, and your community. This masterfully sequenced, multifaceted exploration of stress engages teens in cultivating greater awareness, social-emotional intelligence, compassion, and competence such that they can successfully navigate a stress-filled world by making wise choices for themselves. — Leah Kalish , MA, ERYT, ECYT, Family Constellation & Embodiment Process The authors' extensive experience working with children and in schools is evident on every page of this excellent book. Practical yet impactful advice is coupled with accessible methods to help teachers and administrators embody wisdom and compassion and infuse it into their school culture. — Susan Kaiser Greenland , author of The Mindful Child and Mindful Games and cofounder of Inner Kids An incredibly timely and constructive book that will have a positive impact on the social-emotional growth of young learners. As we become more cognizant of the effects stress has on our mental, physical, and emotional health, we can either let stress paralyze and defeat us or harness its energy and use it to our advantage. Each chapter in this book provides valuable tools and examples to help educators guide young learners in becoming more aware of their emotional reactions to stress. "Stress-wise" learners will take this skillset into adulthood. I can only envision a world where, as adults, they will continue to employ these abilities in their daily lives as models of social and emotional balance. — Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert , MBA, founder, president, and CEO, Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc. (ACE