An innovative online course for improving anxiety awareness and support in the school setting.

Recognizing and Managing Anxiety in the Classroom explores common scenarios in k-12 schools for students struggling with anxiety.

In this 90-minute course, learners will:

• Follow four different students (2nd grade through 12th grade) as they navigate their schoolday fighting against perfectionism, intrusive worries, debilitating social fears, and separation anxieties.
• Choose how to address students’ struggles and then see your choices play out.
• Learn from anxiety experts how to implement proven strategies so students, even with anxiety, can benefit from their academic environment.
• Go behind-the-scenes to see how anxiety interrupts family life with tantrums, homework worries, and school refusal.
• Gain practical tools, worksheets, and tips for enhancing school-home communication and collaboration to fight anxiety.

This course is appropriate for:

• K-12 teachers
• School support staff and administrators
• School-based clinicians and health workers
• Coaches, after-school program leaders, and camp directors
• Parents, family members, and other caregivers
• Anyone who works with K-12 kids

This course was created in partnership with the UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence – a vast Los Angeles County training initiative. Do you work in Los Angeles County? Access the course on the Wellbeing for LA Learning Center