“None of us like stress, but it’s all around, even for students who should be focusing on their studies,” explains David Florence, professor and founder of The Oxford Method, a community that offers tutoring services around the country. “However, students can finish strong, and feel prepared for the next school year. We are helping students to do that daily.”
With school being a source of stress for many students, it’s helpful to take measures to reduce it in the classroom.

Here are some ways to reduce stress in the classroom:
• Help teach students to be prepared and up to speed academically. Doing this will include making sure they have the information they need so they feel well prepared, ensuring that they understand the materials, and getting them assistance when and if it’s needed. For example, some students may benefit from additional tutoring, which will help them with better understanding the material and being prepared.
• Find ways to create a relaxing learning environment. This can be done by choosing to have a positive attitude, teaching students about mindfulness and breathing exercises, and having a calm corner.
• Let students know that they can approach the teacher and other adults at the school if they have issues or questions, or need help. If they feel they have to figure everything out on their own, it will be more stressful. Knowing they can get additional help and have those they can turn to will help bring about ease.
• Encourage students to adopt healthy living habits. This includes focusing on getting enough sleep each night, eating healthy foods, getting exercise, and not engaging in activities that may bring more stress into their life, such as skipping classes or vaping in the restroom.
• Discuss stress with students and teach them ways that they can help to address it. In giving them healthy ways to reduce stress, there can also be a “check the stress at the door” policy, so that students enter the classroom leaving all the stress baggage at the door.
“Many students are stressed out because they need additional help, clarification, and a better educational foundation,” added Florence. “While teachers work on reducing the stress in the classroom, we help many students with gaining skills so they understand the materials better and don’t fall behind. The work we do with students is great at helping stress dissolve and students to become more confident.”

The Oxford Method is a community that helps students gain skills, clarity, and confidence. The community focuses on providing a full range of tutoring services on a wide variety of subjects and for all types of students. It has educational professionals available to help with all types of issues that need to be addressed with students.
The Oxford Method has over 100 tutors around the country, covering all subject areas. It offers online tutoring, as well as in-person and in-classroom options. Its tutoring services are available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. The Oxford Method works with its nonprofit, Social Actualization, Inc., by giving it 10% of all profits. The funds are used to provide free computers, high-speed internet, and instruction to underprivileged families in urban and rural America. Plus, 40% of the instructors are PhDs, 40% have a master’s degree, and 20% have only a bachelor’s degree.

The Oxford Method believes that education is the great equalizer and the best gift you can give the next generation. Subject areas include science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), as well as business, social studies, psychology, English, history, public speaking, study methods, test taking, and more. To get more information about The Oxford Method, visit the website at: https://theoxfordmethod.com.

About The Oxford Method
Started in 2020, The Oxford Method has over 100 instructors who provide access to tutoring 24/7. It also has a nonprofit sector of its community, which offers tutoring services and computers to underprivileged students. Its relationship-based education helps everyone, including those who need financial assistance and those with special needs. It donates 10% of its profits to social organizations that help those in urban areas. To get more information about The Oxford Method, visit the website at: https://theoxfordmethod.com.
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Source:
American Psychological Association. Teen stress rivals that of adults. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/teen-stress

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AgriArk – Princeton, NJ   Offer a closed loop solution taking food waste and turning it into products that regenerate the soil. They also provide healthy greens through our greenhouse growing operation.  This method is the most efficient and least costly method of processing food waste.

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Bright Energy Services   White Plains, NY    A full service firm specializing in energy   conservation/reduction.  The firm deploys tailored energy efficiency solutions and leverages renewable energy technologies to help commercial and industrial property owners reduce their carbon footprint.

www.brightenergyservices.com

CCI Energy Solutions  Uniondale, NY     A sustainable energy solutions provider that helps building owners, developers, co-op boards, and managing agents plans and implement energy efficiency projects, including natural gas conversion, combined heat and power installation, energy procurement, and energy conservation measures.    www.ccisolutions.com
Eco- Brooklyn   Brooklyn, NY     Providing cutting edge green building solutions since 2008. Eco Brooklyn focuses on the most radical green building techniques in order to find ground breaking solutions to our ecological problems.  We try to build with 100% salvaged materials. We attempt to create no waste by reusing as much as possible. Our goal is to use more garbage than we create.  We build super high efficiency homes.     www.ecobrooklyn.com

Green Hospitality Initiative, NY     The GHI is a NYSRAEF program to provide free support to New York Restaurants in adopting profitable green strategies to help create more sustainable and financially sound businesses for the community and to positively impact the environment.  The GHI has been funded the past 4 years through grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute.   www.nysra.org/?EF_GHI_Home

Tri- State Bio Diesel Bronx, NY   Tri-State Biodiesel focuses on the development and implementation of urban-based biodiesel projects utilizing non-food crop biodiesel feedstocks, such as Used Cooking Oil, Jatropha, Oil and Algae Oil.  Tri-State Biodiesel’s provides recycling services to restaurants, cafeterias, caterers and food providers. They acquire cooking oil with the sole purpose of providing it as fuel for home heating, diesel engines, generators and construction equipment.  www.tristatebiodiesel.com

Brooklyn Grange   Brooklyn, NY    They design, install and manage urban rooftop farms in NYC.  Its 2 rooftop vegetable farms comprise 2 ½ acres and produce 50,000 pounds of organically grown vegetables each year.  It also has the largest apiary in NYC with 30 honey bee hives.   Its produce find its way to local kitchens and restaurants.   www.brooklyngrangefarm.com

Sustainable Princeton    Princeton, NY     Educates, engages and excites the Princeton community about how to reduce energy and waste.  A nonprofit whose motto is Change a habit. www.sustainableprinceton.org

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