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  • Cleveland Elementary School
  • Washington, DC
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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The Calming Room is a supportive therapeutic environment which assists students in their self-calming efforts by offering them an environment of relaxation. It is a designated place designed to calm the senses where the student can experience calming visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli. They are designed and furnished to provide an area of low stimulus and provide mindfulness and destressing activities. It can offer students working with each other to relieve stress or also offers an absence of peer interpersonal interactions for the purpose of tension reduction. It is used as a tool to teach students calming techniques in order to decrease agitation, aggressiveness, irritation, sadness, etc. This gives them the chance to calm themselves before trying to process the cause of their actions/misbehavior. They can develop skills here that they can use outside of school to benefit their wellbeing; self-awareness, resiliency, and self-care. Calming rooms also provide a space for students to go to prevent teacher “burn out”. If a student is acting out, over stressed, upset, etc. the comfort room is available for them to rid the negativity and return fresh to their classroom in a better state to learn. In turn, the room provides a safe place for the teacher to send the student who may be a distraction to the other students in their classroom. This sensory supportive environment will provide tools to help students understand their behavior and refocus. These tools can include inexpensive and reusable items to help with cost and low maintenance for upkeep.

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The Calming Room is a supportive therapeutic environment which assists students in their self-calming efforts by offering them an environment of relaxation. It is a designated place designed to calm the senses where the student can experience calming visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli. They are designed and furnished to provide an area of low stimulus and provide mindfulness and destressing activities. It can offer students working with each other to relieve stress or also offers an absence of peer interpersonal interactions for the purpose of tension reduction. It is used as a tool to teach students calming techniques in order to decrease agitation, aggressiveness, irritation, sadness, etc. This gives them the chance to calm themselves before trying to process the cause of their actions/misbehavior. They can develop skills here that they can use outside of school to benefit their wellbeing; self-awareness, resiliency, and self-care. Calming rooms also provide a space for students to go to prevent teacher “burn out”. If a student is acting out, over stressed, upset, etc. the comfort room is available for them to rid the negativity and return fresh to their classroom in a better state to learn. In turn, the room provides a safe place for the teacher to send the student who may be a distraction to the other students in their classroom. This sensory supportive environment will provide tools to help students understand their behavior and refocus. These tools can include inexpensive and reusable items to help with cost and low maintenance for upkeep.

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