Calm Strips are cool and convenient removable sensory stickers that students can stick on their desks or laptops to regulate restless energy. Touching the textured surface helps to regulate restless energy, increase focus or just relieve the need to fidget.
Tracing the design with their fingers gives students a mindful moment to reset and just breathe.
There is something calming about the repetition of fidgeting. It is a ritual that offers comfort through predictability. Studies suggest that when students’ brains are anxious and need to solve complex problems, they use fidgeting to lower stress hormone cortisol levels, helping them to focus away from any potentially negative, unhelpful thoughts and to move into their present moment experience. This will improve their memory and learning performance. Calm Strips offer a more adaptive way to regulate stress in a way that will not distract others, which makes them ideal for classrooms.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
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