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Download these resources to help you share your MDI data, ask deeper questions, and get input from children, parents, staff, and community members.

There's so much we can learn from children – we just need to learn how to ask.

Resources

Conducting Focus Groups with Children
The MDI seeks to understand the whole child — this short video helps explain the multifaceted nature of well-being in middle childhood.

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What is Well-Being?
Download these images to help spread the word about well-being in the middle years.

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Content for social media and newsletters
Explore your local MDI Assets data with students

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MDI Lesson Plan ideas
A quick overview of the two summary indices used in the MDI to gauge overall well-being and the strength of school and community assets.

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Understanding the Well-Being & Assets Indices
Download our step-by-step facilitation guides to jump-start conversations in your school or community.

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Workshops
Two-page pdf summaries of key MDI concepts, including research highlights and action ideas – great for sharing.

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Quicksheets
A research brief on the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI)

Documentation

MDI Research Brief
A handy factsheet detailing the relationship between measures of the MDI and Personal & Social Core Competencies introduced in British Columbia.

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MDI and the BC Core Competencies
Companion guide offering a deep walkthrough of each item on the MDI, including scoring methodology.

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MDI Technical Guide
Our collected tips for planning and delivering a great MDI presentation

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Presentation Tips
What to emphasize when introducing the MDI to others.

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Five Key Messages about the MDI
Short video introducing the MDI survey. Narrated by HELP Director Kim Schonert-Reichl.

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Intro to the MDI

These stories and videos can help explain the Middle Years Development Instrument and illustrate how its core concepts and public data can kickstart change in schools and communities.

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