Middle & High School
A middle and high school teacher’s answer to integrating neurobiology and with the call to virtue and holiness to their students.
What is Arise?
Arise presents 39 short videos (1-3 minutes each), with accompanying lesson plans, activities, and student handouts. The course integrates the best of neurobiology with the call to virtue and holiness, leading adolescents to happiness, holiness and mental health.
Each Arise Lesson integrates:
- Neurobiology
- Social emotional learning strategy
- Saint
- Virtue
What your students will learn
- Understand their minds and bodies in light of the best scientific research.
- Develop healthy habits and strong social-emotional skills.
- Navigate the workings of their growing minds and bodies in a mature and virtuous way.
- Experience the connection between growth in virtue and mental and emotional health.
- Look to the saints as relatable role models who shared their same struggles and became heroes of virtue.
- Strengthen their characters and develop their personal identities as sons and daughters of God.
- See how their Catholic faith can shed light on their most authentic questions and struggles.
Why Arise Works
“I do feel like this Arise program has been a puzzle piece that we’ve been missing for educating the whole child. This puzzle piece has helped me give the “why” to my students. Middle school students want to know how science and faith come together. Through the Arise program…it’s giving them real life skills to work through all of their emotions, their habits, their attitudes, and it brings them closer to virtues to want to to live those out. So now they know the why, and they have skills now to use today and for the rest of their lives.”
Rebecca Oster
Middle School Leadership and Religion, O’Hara Catholic School
You will be hooked after the first three lessons. We promise!
Lesson 1
Introduction to “Arise” Series
This first Arise video lays the foundation that we are body and soul and how neuroscience, strategies, and the examples of the saints can help us live happier, holier lives.
Lesson 2
Healthy Adolescence for a Healthy Life
This lesson breaks down the characteristics of adolescent brain development with all its struggles and gifts, and how to capitalize on them!
Lesson 3
The River of Grace
This lesson introduces a central concept in neurobiology called the polyvagal theory: finding the place of balance and peace between the extremes of chaos and rigidity.
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Lesson 4 – The Limbic System
Lesson 5 – Cortical Thinking
Lesson 6 – Emotions Are a Gift
Lesson 7 – Guilt and Freedom
Lesson 8 – Learning from Failure — Resilience
Lesson 9 – Healthy Boundaries
Lesson 10 – Fight, Flight, Freeze
Lesson 11 – Amygdala
Lesson 12 – Window of Tolerance
Lesson 13 – Wiring for Good
Lesson 14 – Sprouting and Pruning
Lesson 15 – Talents
Lesson 16 – Social Brain
Lesson 17 – Identity
Lesson 18 – Seen and Heard
Lesson 19 – Benefits of Gratitude
Lesson 20 – Generous Words
Lesson 21 – Empathy
Lesson 22 – Integration
Lesson 23 – Neurosequential Model
Lesson 24 – Conflict
Lesson 25 – Apologies and Managing Words
Lesson 26 – Rupture and Repair
Lesson 27 – Co-regulation
Lesson 28 – Self-regulation
Lesson 29 – The Hero’s Journey
Lesson 30 – Healthy Mind Platter
Lesson 31 – Stress: Positive, Tolerable, Toxic
Lesson 32 – Responsible Decision Making
Lesson 33 – Integrative/Regulatory Brain Fibers
Lesson 34 – Executive Function
Lesson 35 – Hippocampus and Memory
Lesson 36 – Technology and the Brain
Lesson 37 – Sacramental Order and Development
Lesson 38 – Safe, Seen, Soothed, and Secure for Heaven
Lesson 39 – Love of God, Self, and Neighbor
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The Arise Teacher’s Manual teaches you how to use the student handouts and empowers the teacher to guide students through the course.
What you get:
- Teacher Guided Lesson Plans
- All student activities
- All student handouts
- Learning objectives
- Neuroscience information
- SEL strategies
- Virtues
- Saint biographies