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Teach about mental health to students this Mental Health …

WEBMicrosoft Reflect, a well-being app and Learning Accelerator, can help facilitate meaningful peer-to-peer and student-to-educator conversations about emotions and mental health. This Mental Health Awareness Month and beyond, get started with Reflect check-ins, age-appropriate reflections, intentional break breaks, and actionable …

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Nurture educator wellness with Microsoft Education

WEBCalm —the leading mental health brand with the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and relaxation—has partnered with Microsoft to integrate mindfulness content into Microsoft Reflect, a powerful tool designed for social and emotional learning (SEL). Teachers can leverage Calm’s guided mindfulness sessions, movement activities, and focus music

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New ways to reflect and thrive on World Mental Health Day!

WEBWorld Mental Health Day is an opportunity to bring awareness to mental health issues and the resources available to support it. Create a check in with Reflect and provide an opportunity for everyone to share any concerns or stressors they might be carrying and to receive support from each other this Mental Health Awareness Day and …

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More meaningful check-ins with Microsoft Reflect now in …

WEBNew ways to reflect and thrive on World Mental Health Day! October 10th is World Mental Health Day: a day to raise awareness and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The day provides an excellent opportunity to discuss and normalize mental health issues so that we can make mental health a universal human right.

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Eight great ways of celebrating SEL Day 2024 Microsoft EDU

WEBAdditionally, Reflect has partnered with Calm—the leading mental health brand with the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and relaxation—to integrate science-backed content designed to help users meet their goals. Explore all the Calm activities in the Reflect app. Reflect has also partnered with several of your favorite classroom tools like

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New Teams features help improve your classroom’s well-being

WEBNew ways to reflect and thrive on World Mental Health Day! October 10th is World Mental Health Day: a day to raise awareness and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The day provides an excellent opportunity to discuss and normalize mental health issues so that we can make mental health a universal human right.

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Enhancing students’ social, emotional, and academic growth

WEBBuilding check-ins into regular routines can help students recognize and name emotions, becoming “reflectors” of their own emotional lives and developing their capacity to learn and grow with intention. Regular check-ins can also help teachers assess their class's comfort with subject matter, to see where students may need more support.

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Spotlight on social emotional skills: Results of OECD’s global survey

WEBOECD Director of Education and Skills describes the importance of social and emotional skills and well-being. Some preliminary insights from each of the key areas in the survey are: School performance: Student social and emotional skills are significant predictors of school grades across students’ backgrounds, age cohorts, and cities.

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Navigating disruption: Spotlight on social-emotional learning

WEBNavigating disruption: Spotlight on social-emotional learning. Just over a year ago, COVID-19 disrupted the educational journeys of 1.6 billion students around the globe and changed how we live, work, socialize, and learn. Today the world continues to navigate the economic, public health, and humanitarian challenges the pandemic caused.

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Foster more equitable education with Microsoft Partners

WEBNew ways to reflect and thrive on World Mental Health Day! October 10th is World Mental Health Day: a day to raise awareness and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The day provides an excellent opportunity to discuss and normalize mental health issues so that we can make mental health a universal human right.

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Inclusive design for accessible learning Microsoft EDU

WEBThe Loom School in Decatur, Georgia, is a small private school for children with learning disabilities and mental health issues. As the COVID-19 health crisis swept across the country, the school’s leadership team realized the safest thing to do was to move to primarily virtual learning and services.

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Universities drive personalized experiences with Microsoft

WEBA pilot version of Imagine U was developed for the initial launch of the program and delivered to an employee group. Personalized for every individual, the program helps participants complete an anonymous health risk assessment and set goals for exercise, nutrition, and mental health. MUSC settled on Microsoft Teams as the …

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New features in Teams and OneNote support social-emotional …

WEBNew SEL features for Microsoft Education. 1. New Praise Badges in Microsoft Teams recognize moments of SEL growth. Teams is the hub for learning, engagement, and collaboration, with built-in tools to tailor learning to student needs. Today, more than 230,000 education institutions use Teams for remote and hybrid learning.

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What’s New in EDU: Free tools to enhance collaboration, STEM …

WEBLearn how you can teach your students about mental health this Mental Health Awareness Month. Explore free tools from Microsoft to teach mental health in schools. Events and Announcements School leaders …

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Empowering Changemakers Through Compassionate Decision …

WEBLearn how you can teach your students about mental health this Mental Health Awareness Month. Explore free tools from Microsoft to teach mental health in schools. Events and Announcements School leaders …

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Universities tackle big challenges with Microsoft Power Platform

WEBThe health bot solution allowed for a quick remedy to the high call volume of the telephone hotline while continuing to provide the public with information. The assessment tool logged 8,000 users in its first week of operation. The success of the tool enabled Upstate to scale back hours for its telephone hot line, enabling the staff who

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Empowering Students to be Future-Ready Microsoft EDU

WEBEmpowering Students to be Future-Ready. The fourth industrial revolution is fueling accelerated change in society and the workplace. Technology advancements, the rise of cloud, socio-economic and demographic changes are shifting expectations and placing new demands on society. While these changes hold great promise, education …

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The acceleration of hybrid learning for higher-ed students and …

WEBThe acceleration of hybrid learning for higher-ed students and faculty. Before COVID-19 disrupted the education journeys of more than 1.5 billion students around the world, higher education institutions were already exploring ways to grow enrollment, reach more students, and better engage the “digital natives” of Generation Z.

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Office 365 Education is free to eligible students and teachers*

WEBEvents and Announcements. Sign up for Microsoft 365 Education - free for students and educators at eligible institutions. Get access to programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and now Microsoft Teams, plus additional classroom tools. Use your valid school email address to get started today. Free Microsoft Office 365 for Schools & Students.

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Higher Education Reimagined, sessions available on-demand

WEBHigher Education Reimagined, sessions available on-demand. Over 149 million new jobs are expected to emerge by 2025 in the tech industry alone. At the same time, the unprecedented public health crisis is accelerating the pace and expanding the scale of change in education. With greater competition for student admissions, new …

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Safeguard your students, online and on campus Microsoft EDU

WEBMicrosoft’s Smart and Secure Campus solutions combine security and threat protection with sophisticated artificial intelligence that works seamlessly in the background — sharing intelligence and working smarter to automatically address and remediate security threats online. To learn more, download the Smart and Secure Campus e-book.

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