Tools for Schools Program is an exciting new approach to education that includes 6 hours of training for teachers and the Tools for Schools package for use in the classroom.

The Tools for Schools Package includes:

-Pose Card Tool Box: Each easy-to-use card features one or more photographs of children in the pose. The back of each card includes Pose Instructions as well as Fun Tips for Curriculum Integration with activity ideas adaptable for any grade level.
-Tack-On Mat: The portable sticky mat hangs on the classroom wall for displaying Pose Cards and creating pose sequences for all students to see.
-YogaKids: Educating the Whole Child Through Yoga: by Marsha Wenig, founder of YogaKids. Consider this practical book a resource for deeper information about yoga for children.
-Fitness Fun Tunes CD: This CD features 10 original songs perfect for addressing the musical-rhythmic intelligence. Some work well with a particular pose (for example “Rocking Horse” and “Take 5”) and others are useful for more general purposes.
-YogaKids DVDs: Produced by Gaiam, a lifestyle company. Volume 1: The Original, Volume 2: ABCs, and Volume 3: Silly to Calm. See actual children demonstrating many of the poses included in the Tools for Schools Pose Cards, as well as many other poses you can use in creative ways in your classroom.

Imagine…
Your students have just come in to the classroom to begin their day. The bell has rung, and a few of the students are having trouble settling down. “Let’s close our eyes and relax our faces,” you announce. You instruct them to breathe in slowly and deeply, and as they breathe out, to whisper the word “peace.” The kids begin to experience their own sense of peace first, then as a group that feeling of peace is “sent” around your classroom, through the rest of the school, and finally throughout the world. What a powerful way to begin your day!
(Peace Breath is a blue Calm and Quiet Pose Card.)

Click here for more info about YogaKids Tools for Schools.

Grant Money for California Teachers
Use your district grant money from the California Arts, Music and Physical Education One-Time Equipment Grants to purchase the YogaKids Tools for Schools materials."ARTS, MUSIC AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION ONE-TIME EQUIPMENT GRANTS The Budget also includes $500 million Proposition 98 General Fund on a one-time basis for the purchase of arts, music and/or physical education supplies and equipment. With these resources, schools will be able to make significant investments in items such as musical instruments, kilns, photographic equipment and multi-media design equipment. Further, this significant investment of resources will allow schools to make meaningful investments in order to improve and expand the infrastructure of physical education programs to help address the rising incidence of obesity. Grants will be allocated to school districts, charter schools and county offices of education on an equal amount per pupil, based on the number of pupils in kindergarten and grades one through twelve, with a minimum funding level of $2,500 for small schools."
-from www.ebudget.ca.gov

More info: California Department of Education Website

Contact your school district for details on accessing this grant money.