Teaching · Special Education

Find what weighs most on the student.

Add each stressor with where it happens, how often and how hard, and who named it. The summary ranks them, shows which ones the student has not named themselves and lists the signs the adults see.

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The stressor organizer

One record per student; update it as things change. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Stressors ranked by how often and how hard, the ones to check with the student, signs of stress, what already helps, and any safety statement at the top.
Who it is for
School counselors, psychologists, special education teachers and student support teams.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per student; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the stressors; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
weighing what weighs most
Drawn for this page. A stressor that comes every day and hits hard weighs more than one that comes now and then.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with a code or initials.
  2. Answer the safety question first, and follow your school’s procedure if the answer is yes.
  3. Ask the student what is hard, then add what the family and teachers have noticed.
  4. Rate each stressor for how often and how hard, and say who named it.
  5. Mark the signs of stress and what already helps, then plan around the top of the list.

Start a stressor record

How the organizer works

How the ranking works

How often (1 to 3) times how hard (1 to 3) gives a weight from 1 to 9. It is a way to choose where to start, not a measure of the student.

The student’s voice

Students often name different stressors than the adults around them. A stressor only adults named is a question to ask the student, not a fact.

What it is not

It does not diagnose anxiety or anything else. Any statement about harm goes through the school’s safety procedure at once; in the US, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available by call or text.

Sources

  1. CASEL. The CASEL Guide to Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning, casel.org: self-awareness and self-management.
  2. National Association of School Psychologists. Preventing Youth Suicide: Tips for Parents and Educators, nasponline.org.
  3. Compas, B. E., et al. (2017). Coping, emotion regulation, and psychopathology in childhood and adolescence: a meta-analysis and narrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 143(9), 939 to 991.
  4. 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 988lifeline.org.

The example student and stressors are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.