Kristina Yoder

Counselor in training. Mindfulness practitioner and advocate. Former educator.
Clinical Mental Health Counseling student, Kent State '25

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

Meet them where they're at and just be with them. ❤️ @AustinISDSEL @aisdparents

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@MissRod98 👏👏👏

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@aussieandrew @biomedacademy Have a great year, Coop!

[Mrs. Junker @BMSAArt]

Face painting was so fun for field day! I’ll miss my goofy 6th graders but they will be amazing next year! #ourbmsa

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

The dream team! So grateful for these wonderful humans who guided my boy this year! Off to 7th grade! 🎉 @jdurbak6 @BMSAArt @JHunterScience @MrsKohanski7 #ourBMSA

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Acts of kindness that feel small to us have a big impact on others.

Research: kids and adults underestimate how tiny acts of generosity lift others' moods.

There's no easier way to make someone's day than to offer a compliment, give a little gift, or send a handwritten note.

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

Will they survive?!? Fourth graders got to test out their attribute growth with our survival game this week! Using limited materials, they had to innovate and create items they would need to survive on an island. Water filters were a fave! #ourBMSA

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@LauraGreenhalg6 I'm asleep by 8pm on a Friday😴

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@MissRod98 🥰

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@MrNeibauer I use zones of regulation, which also uses colors to help categorize feelings. It does not put feelings on a scale though, which could carry a negative association. With zones, feelings are just feelings, neither good or bad, which can help kids not feel so burdened by them.

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

Innovative fun bubbling up today in our second hive this week! Students designed and constructed bubble wands from 3-D pens, and of course we had to test them out! 🫧 #ourBMSA

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@JHunterScience This rules 🌸

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

Say what?! Goldilocks was framed?! These Hive-Goers got to look closely at some incriminating evidence against another certain make-believe character today during our Maker Mystery Hive time! I guess the slipper is on the other foot now🕵 #ourBMSA

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@JHunterScience Yay Diz!

[HappeningsFromHive12 @Hive12BMSA]

The use of talking pieces during collaboration is a game changer for your classroom dynamic. I’m so proud of how effectively third graders can exchange ideas in a respectful and productive way! #ourBMSA #OAISS #collaboration #myteacherheartisfull

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

True #STEM starts with the ability to:
Communicate ☑️
Collaborate ☑️ and
Regulate ☑️
Fourth graders measured success with these attributes today during our marshmallow design challenge 🙌 #ourBMSA

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

It's good to bee at Bio-Med! 🥹 #TeacherAppreciation #ourBMSA

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Its interesting that in Finland, schools avg 5 hours per day and yet fit in 15 mins of recess every hour, but in the US we go 7 +hours and can’t fit in 10 mins total for recess.

[Julie Hunter @JHunterScience]

Congratulations to Mahan for being the OSLN State Showcase Presentation Award Winner for the Akron hub and for also winning the student choice award for presentation! We are all so proud if you!!! #ourbmsa #oaiss

[Kristina Yoder @YoderMrs]

@MrNunesteach The expenditure of time, energy, and emotional burden on teachers/students is an exponential cost for an inaccurate and finite measure of what any child knows, or their potential. The obsessional investment in testing should instead be put towards the mental health of students.

[Mrs. Junker @BMSAArt]

More completed agamographs by 6th grade! I love how they are turning out, the kids have done an amazing job on this. #ourbmsa #OAISS