Help learners better understand their brains, behaviors, emotions, and needs with this set of 3 Brain States classroom posters. These easy-to-use visual supports introduce children to the Survival Brain, Emotional Brain, and Executive Brain and provide a simple framework for understanding how brain states can affect behavior, communication, regulation, and learning.

These posters are a great addition to classrooms, special education settings, counseling spaces, homeschool rooms, therapy environments, and neurodiversity-affirming learning spaces.

What’s Included:

• Survival Brain Poster – Understanding the brain’s protective response when we feel unsafe, overwhelmed, or under stress

• Emotional Brain Poster – Understanding strong emotions, connection, and the impact emotions can have on our thinking and behavior

• Executive Brain Poster – Understanding the part of the brain that supports problem-solving, decision-making, flexible thinking, communication, and learning

Use These Posters To:

• Help children identify different brain states

• Support self-awareness and emotional regulation

• Encourage positive behavior support

• Help students understand why their behavior may change when they are overwhelmed

• Teach self-regulation and coping strategies

• Support social-emotional learning (SEL)

• Create a shared classroom language around regulation and behavior

• Encourage connection before correction

• Support neurodivergent learners, including autistic and ADHD students

• Provide a visual reference for teachers, counselors, therapists, and support staff

Instant download, and print! (8.5x11")These posters can be displayed together as a 3 Brain States visual, used individually, or incorporated into classroom discussions, behavior support plans, social-emotional learning lessons, and regulation activities.

Great for:

Teachers • Special Education • Elementary Classroom • Homeschool • Microschool • Counseling • School Psychology • Occupational Therapy • Speech Therapy • Behavior Support • Social Emotional Learning • SEL • Emotional Regulation • Self-Regulation • Classroom Management • Neurodiversity-Affirming Education

This resource is adapted from concepts presented in the Conscious Discipline program.