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Active Listening

Heart to Heart

A high-quality co-completion toolkit for parents and 11-year-old pre-teens. Focuses on active listening, emotional attunement, conflict de-escalation, and establishing daily connection rituals.

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Theresa Casarella

Inclusion Architects

Students apply their deep listening and empathy skills to design a school-wide inclusion campaign or classroom standard, designing collaborative action items.

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Cynthia Rios

Perspective Passages

Students engage in active empathy and narrative exchange, analyzing how personal experiences and cultural backgrounds shape our perspectives of shared environments.

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Cynthia Rios

Iceberg Investigators

Students explore the concept of the cultural iceberg, distinguishing between visible elements of culture and deep, invisible values, to recognize the richness of identity.

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Cynthia Rios

Silent Signals

A practical, high-interest social skills lesson designed to help eighth-grade students decode and master silent communication cues: eye contact patterns, body language, and tone of voice. Contains slide-based instruction, role-play challenges, interactive worksheets, and an educator facilitation guide.

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Farrah Keeler

Summer Reflect & Release

Celebrates collective triumphs, reflective learning, and restorative closure as the school year draws to an end (May, June).

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Elaine Lai

Spring Grow & Bloom

Fosters professional empathy, creative renewal, and navigating high-stakes testing season with collaborative support and grace (February, March, April).

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Elaine Lai

Winter Gather & Glow

Explores themes of collective healing, mid-year fatigue management, peer-to-peer gratitude, and warming up school culture during the winter months (November, December, January).

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Elaine Lai

Autumn Root & Begin

Focuses on establishing group trust, sharing summer transitions, and setting supportive baseline agreements for the start of the school year (August, September, October).

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Elaine Lai

Summer Reflect & Release

Celebrates collective triumphs, reflective learning, and restorative closure as the school year draws to an end (May, June).

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Robbin Johnson-Perez

Spring Grow & Bloom

Fosters professional empathy, creative renewal, and navigating high-stakes testing season with collaborative support and grace (February, March, April).

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Robbin Johnson-Perez

Winter Gather & Glow

Explores themes of collective healing, mid-year fatigue management, peer-to-peer gratitude, and warming up school culture during the winter months (November, December, January).

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Robbin Johnson-Perez

Clear Verbal & Nonverbal Communication

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Resilience Architecture Sequence

A systemic approach to stress and burnout prevention for graduate students, reframing personal well-being as a design challenge. Students develop a personalized 'resilience architecture' through structural changes in time management, sleep hygiene, and boundary setting.

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Peer Support and Crisis Communication

A graduate-level training sequence on facilitating peer support systems to mitigate stress and anxiety. Students learn the science of social support, micro-skills for active listening, boundary setting to prevent burnout, and group facilitation techniques to create sustainable communities of care.

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Peer Support Dynamics and Community Resilience

A comprehensive sequence for undergraduate students exploring the social psychology of stress and the practical skills needed to build resilient peer support networks. Students move from theoretical understanding to practical facilitation and community planning.

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Star Power Mastery

A Pre-K sequence focused on building self-esteem and positive experiences through mastery, growth mindset, and persistence. Students learn to navigate challenges and celebrate their own progress.

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Happy Hearts Together

A Pre-K sequence focused on moving from individual joy to shared happiness through social connection, invitations, collaboration, and celebration. Students learn how community and play amplify positive emotions and build resilience.

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Routine Heroes

A sequence for Pre-K students focused on building emotional resilience through predictable, positive daily routines. Students explore greetings, reframing chores, managing transitions, finding peace in quiet time, and practicing daily gratitude.

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Sunshine and Smiles

A Kindergarten sequence focused on shared positive experiences to boost mood and build social connections through invitations, cooperation, laughter, altruism, and gratitude.

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Joy Discovery Lab

A Kindergarten sequence focused on helping students identify personal interests and the link between activities and emotions through sensory exploration and creative mapping.

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The Joy Lab Sequence

This sequence introduces 3rd-grade students to identifying personal sources of joy and satisfaction. It guides them through recognizing physical emotional shifts, inventorying interests, exploring sensory joy, categorizing activities by energy levels, and creating a personalized 'menu' of coping strategies for emotional regulation.

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Pressure Point Mastery

An applied sequence for undergraduate students to master self-regulation and de-escalation techniques in high-pressure academic and interpersonal contexts. Students move from identifying personal physiological triggers to practicing real-time regulation during active conflict and performance.

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Joy Sparks

A therapeutic and self-discovery sequence for 2nd graders to identify personal sources of joy. Students explore the physical sensations of happiness, categorize their interests, and create a personalized 'Joy Menu' to use as a coping strategy for emotional regulation.

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Boundary Pilots Sequence

A comprehensive sequence for 9th-grade students focusing on self-advocacy, communication skills, and boundary setting to manage schedule conflicts and prevent burnout. Students learn to recognize stress signals, draft professional requests, negotiate deadlines, and prioritize tasks during crises.

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Building Positive Friendships

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Peer Support Rubric

An assessment rubric for the final Community Charter project, evaluating theory application, safety planning, and sustainability.

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Community Charter Template

A design framework for a community care plan, producing a 'Community Charter' for peer support in a specific campus context.

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Community Care Slides

Visual slide deck for Lesson 5, introducing the concepts of mutual aid, sustainable networks, and the "Community Charter" project.

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Collective Coping Toolkit

A brainstorming worksheet for identifying collective coping strategies for common undergraduate stressors.

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Stressor Sorting Activity

A sorting activity where students categorize shared stressors from an anonymous "drop box" into personal or systemic categories to facilitate normalization.

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Group Facilitation Slides

Visual slide deck for Lesson 4, introducing group facilitation skills, the power of normalization, and the distinction between individual and systemic stressors.

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Campus Referral Organizer

A resource guide template for students to collect and categorize campus professional resources.

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Mood Hero Certificate

A celebratory completion certificate for students who have finished the 'Mood Makers' sequence, recognizing them as 'official Mood Makers and Reset Heroes'.

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Mood Hero Comic Worksheet

A student worksheet for reflecting on emotional change by creating a visual comic story of identifying a problem, choosing a tool, and achieving a positive mood shift.

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Peer Support Case Studies

Case study scenarios for Lesson 3 focusing on identifying red flags, setting internal limits, and drafting referral scripts.

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Best Part Circle Guide

Teacher-facing guide for facilitating the end-of-day "Best Part" reflection circle with Pre-K students.

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Pride Portfolio Cover Student Lesson 5

A decorative cover for the student's final 'Star Power' portfolio, featuring space for a self-portrait and recognition of their growth mindset journey.

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Working Cooperatively in Groups

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The Friendship Party

A culminating event where students plan and execute a simple shared activity (like a dance party or snack share). They reflect on how doing things together feels different than doing them alone.

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The Joy Exchange

Students present their Joy Menus to small groups, allowing peers to borrow ideas to add to their own lists. The lesson concludes with a commitment to try one menu item over the weekend.

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Celebrating Friends

Students learn to identify when a friend does something good and how to celebrate them (clapping, cheering). This shifts focus from self-gratification to finding joy in others' success.

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Community Care Project

Students design and pitch a sustainable community care initiative tailored to their specific academic or professional cohort.

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Facilitating Group Discussions

Develops skills for leading group stress check-ins, managing dynamics, and ensuring psychological safety in group settings.

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Boundaries in Peer Support

Focuses on preventing compassion fatigue through emotional and temporal boundaries and professional referral protocols.

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Active Listening and Validation

Practical workshop on active listening, validation, and holding space for peers without the pressure to provide immediate solutions.

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Science of Social Support

Examines the buffering hypothesis and the psychological mechanics of how social connection mitigates stress, contrasting co-rumination with constructive disclosure.

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Collaborative Creation

Small groups work together to build something (block tower, art piece). The focus is on the positive feeling of achieving a goal together rather than the final product.

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Joy Menu Maker

Using their investigations, students create a visual 'menu' or choice board of their top 5 reliable mood-boosting activities. They illustrate these options to serve as a reference tool.

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Designing a Community Care Plan

Students design a framework for a community care plan, producing a 'Community Charter' for peer support in a specific campus context.

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Navigating Shared Stressors

A facilitated dialogue session focusing on common undergraduate stressors, practicing normalization and collective coping strategies.

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Communicating Personal Boundaries

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Crew Culture

A three-part social-emotional learning curriculum designed specifically for middle school boys to develop self-esteem, manage digital pressure, and build authentic peer relationships.

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True Influence Journey

A comprehensive restorative leadership and peer advocacy sequence designed for students transitioning to middle school. It guides students from understanding their social influence to actively protecting peers and spreading positive school culture.

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Marcia Cullinane

Staff Kinship Collective

A year-round community-building sequence for TK-6 staff, structured seasonally from August through June. Grounded in a 'Village Kinship' theme to foster professional empathy, shared resilience, and deep peer-to-peer appreciation.

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Robbin Johnson-Perez

Mind Armor Academy

A comprehensive 14-session CBT and DBT skills curriculum designed for school counselors. Features structured session facilitation guides, student worksheets, and portable coping tool cards to build resilience, emotional regulation, and strong peer relationships across 14 complete lessons.

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Michaela Gagne

Peace Patrol

A 4-day small group conflict resolution unit for grades 3-5, aligned with CASEL competencies. Students learn to identify conflicts and apply four specific healthy problem-solving strategies: find a compromise, report to an adult, ignore/walk away, and calmly tell to stop.

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Erin McFarland

Speak Up Squad

A two-lesson counseling sequence designed for a small group (3rd and 4th graders) focusing on self-advocacy strategies. The sequence guides students from pre-advocacy de-escalation (breathing and grounding) to active self-expression (I-statements and situational script practice).

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jcoates

Community of CARES

A comprehensive back-to-school character education unit centered around the schoolwide EVCS CARES values: Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-Control. Each value is taught through active modeling, guided practice, and reflection, culminating in a schoolwide community project.

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Annie Shields

Boundary Builders

A therapeutic series of group sessions designed for adult mental health and substance abuse clients, focusing on interpersonal dynamics, protective defense mechanisms (masking), and maintaining internal boundaries in challenging environments.

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Melanie Vohs

Respect Reset

A comprehensive, proactive middle school curriculum designed to counter discipline trends of verbal aggression, profanity, drama, and disrespect through social-emotional learning, interactive role-plays, parent partnership, and a unified school-wide visual campaign.

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Kim Davis

Student Success Academy

A comprehensive counseling group curriculum designed for freshmen, school-avoidant students, and those with executive functioning challenges, focusing on attendance, engagement, and success.

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The Turnaround Track

An intensive academic coaching and accountability curriculum designed specifically for Tier 3 Student Success Academy students who are third-time freshmen. This course combines credit-recovery tracking, post-secondary planning, goal-setting, and habit-building to help students regain momentum and graduate.

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Value Shield

A 4-week school counseling or social skills small group program designed to help middle school students anchor their self-esteem in core personal values and master refusal strategies to resist negative peer pressure.

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Respecting Others' Boundaries

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Repair Roadmap Handout

A student guide and writing prompt detailing the four steps of a restorative apology and providing practical reporting templates for middle schoolers.

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Marcia Cullinane

Peace Pact Contract

A formal signed Peer Relationship Contract detailing explicit boundaries, classroom rules, recess guidelines, and de-escalation protocols for two 6th-grade students.

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Marcia Cullinane

Boundaries Blueprint Worksheet

An interactive student worksheet designed to help 6th-grade students analyze the emotional impact of words, teasing physical traits, and making offensive gestures, offering concrete reflection scenarios.

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Marcia Cullinane

Respect Reboot Slides

A 5-slide presentation for administrators or counselors to lead a restorative conflict resolution session. It outlines ground rules, addresses the impact of slurs and physical teasing, introduces de-escalation strategies, and sets expectations.

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Marcia Cullinane

Friendship Farewell Facilitator Guide

A comprehensive teacher-facing resource detailing the final session outline for the Friendship Garden small group. It provides pacing, structured discussion prompts, a closing circle ritual, and facilitation instructions for the keepsake posters.

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Amy Fitzgibbon

Blooming Friends Reflection Poster

An interactive, beautifully themed keepsake coloring poster for 2nd-3rd grade students. It combines garden-themed coloring illustrations with short, creative reflection prompts to celebrate their friendship journey.

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Amy Fitzgibbon

Garden Seeds Coloring Poster

A delightful, print-ready keepsake coloring poster designed for primary grades (K-1st). It features beautiful garden graphics with bold outlines for easy coloring, minimal writing, and an interactive drawing frame to celebrate friendship growth.

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Amy Fitzgibbon

Heart Repair Worksheet

An engaging 1-page student worksheet designed for self-reflection, reframing unkind words into kind words, and committing to the Heart Care Pledge.

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Nancy Thunell

Bruised Hearts Anchor Chart

A visually striking anchor chart poster displaying the diagnostic contrast between 'Bruising Words' and 'Healing Words', complete with guidelines for treating others with care.

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Nancy Thunell

Bruised Hearts Lesson Plan

A structured 2-page lesson plan for teachers detailing the 'Bruised Heart' activity, discussion questions, and step-by-step guidance on teaching the lasting impact of unkind words.

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Nancy Thunell

Permission Power Posters

A set of 4 vibrant, high-contrast classroom wall posters designed for elementary students. Includes step-by-step visual guides for asking permission to use the bathroom, borrow materials, and touch items in the classroom, paired with clear text scripts and support icons.

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Blended Families Navigator Guide

A single-page, highly visual infographic and roadmap guide designed to accompany the 'Navigating the Waters of Blended Families' presentation. It features key statistics, core challenges and benefits, and detailed actionable steps for the 3 pillars of blended family success (Communication, Bonding, and Identity), beautifully formatted for families and practitioners.

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Michaela Gagne

Assertive Expression

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Signal Strength

A middle school counseling lesson on healthy relationships and personal safety. Students learn to decode relationship signals, identify red and yellow flags, map their personal boundaries, and practice navigating peer pressure through interactive discussions and guided reflections.

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Line in the Sand

Students learn to set healthy boundaries, navigate peer pressure, and establish what authentic trust looks like in real-world friendships.

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Digital Armor

Students analyze their digital footprint, discuss modern social media pressures, and learn how to align their online actions with their offline values.

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Own Your Code

Students explore their personal identity, core values, and what healthy masculinity looks like in their daily lives.

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Growing Voices

A reflective counseling lesson celebrating emotional expression, triumph over shyness, and setting intentions for speaking up with confidence in group settings.

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Emoni Anderson

True Influence

A restorative leadership module designed for a 5th-grade student transitioning to middle school. Focuses on channeling natural social influence into positive leadership, specifically protecting and looking out for others, rather than leading peers into conflict.

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Marcia Cullinane

Evening Soundcheck

An at-home extension lesson designed for the student to work on independently or with a family member tonight, focusing on practicing guitar techniques as emotional outlets and setting positive household commitments.

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Marcia Cullinane

Chords of Character

A transformative mentoring curriculum designed for a student transitioning to high school, using his passion for heavy metal and guitar to guide reflection on peer pressure, resist hate symbols, and channel his influence into positive leadership.

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Marcia Cullinane

Connection Compass

A comprehensive progress monitoring and intervention kit designed to help 4th-grade students experiencing social anxiety and withdrawal. The kit includes situational scenario cards, an educator assessment rubric, and a student self-reflection journal to build emotional awareness, expand peer connections, and develop help-seeking behaviors.

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Michael Aboulafia

Triangle Detour

A therapeutic lesson designed for adult children caught in long-standing triangulation dynamics between their mother and sister. This lesson teaches assertive communication, boundary-setting strategies, and detouring family arguments.

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Theresa Casarella

Filter First

A lesson for 5th graders to analyze peer communication across recess, group work, and digital settings. Students learn to distinguish between helpful and hurtful comments and practice constructive reframing.

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Haley Withington

Signal Decoders

A high-energy, interactive lesson introducing incoming freshmen to the four communication styles (Passive, Aggressive, Passive-Aggressive, Assertive) and perspective-taking. Students analyze scenarios, roleplay reactions, and learn to align their signals for clear communication in high school.

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mmanning

Peaceful Problem-Solving

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True Influence Journey

A comprehensive restorative leadership and peer advocacy sequence designed for students transitioning to middle school. It guides students from understanding their social influence to actively protecting peers and spreading positive school culture.

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Marcia Cullinane

Cooperative Minds

A high school counseling sequence focused on building perspective-taking, cognitive flexibility, and active collaboration strategies for Grade 12 Seniors navigating professional capstone projects, advanced career-technical labs, and workplace transitions.

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Crew Control

A 4-day small group counseling unit for grades 3-5 focused on CASEL Relationship Skills (Cooperation and Teamwork). Students learn to contribute to group goals, accept different roles, support teammates, and resolve conflicts in 20-minute sessions.

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Erin McFarland

Teamwork Treasures

A 3-day social-emotional learning series for grades K-2 focusing on cooperation, sharing, and peaceful turn-taking, aligned with the CASEL Relationship Skills competency.

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Erin McFarland

The Sharing Squad

A 3-day SEL small-group intervention for grades K-2 focused on material sharing, turn-taking, and peaceful collaboration, aligned with the CASEL Relationship Skills competency. Each daily session is designed for 20 minutes with specific timestamps.

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Erin McFarland

Flex and Flow

A social-emotional learning unit for first graders to master peer conflict resolution. Through physical metaphors, visual scaling, and calming exercises, students learn to transition from rigid thinking to flexible problem-solving.

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jcoates

Mind Armor Academy

A comprehensive 14-session CBT and DBT skills curriculum designed for school counselors. Features structured session facilitation guides, student worksheets, and portable coping tool cards to build resilience, emotional regulation, and strong peer relationships across 14 complete lessons.

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Michaela Gagne

Conflict Codebreakers

A cohesive small group SEL sequence designed for middle school students to master independent conflict resolution and relationship repair.

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Erin McFarland

Peace Patrol

A 4-day small group conflict resolution unit for grades 3-5, aligned with CASEL competencies. Students learn to identify conflicts and apply four specific healthy problem-solving strategies: find a compromise, report to an adult, ignore/walk away, and calmly tell to stop.

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Erin McFarland

Team Power Unit

A social-emotional learning sequence focused on developing cooperation and assertiveness in K-2 students through music, movement, and hands-on activities. Students learn to balance their own needs with the needs of the group to become effective 'Team Power' heroes.

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Janayzha Smith

Blueprint Career Prep

A 2-week, highly scaffolded employability curriculum tailored for young incarcerated men (ages 18-25) preparing for re-entry. It uses concrete, highly chunked graphic organizers, real-world case studies, sentence frames, and clear visual icons to build self-awareness, career interest, paperwork, interview readiness, and job-keeping skills.

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V Lundgren

Community of CARES

A comprehensive back-to-school character education unit centered around the schoolwide EVCS CARES values: Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-Control. Each value is taught through active modeling, guided practice, and reflection, culminating in a schoolwide community project.

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Active Listening

Heart to Heart

Theresa Casarella

Inclusion Architects

Cynthia Rios

Perspective Passages

Cynthia Rios

Iceberg Investigators

Cynthia Rios

Silent Signals

Farrah Keeler

Summer Reflect & Release

Elaine Lai

Spring Grow & Bloom

Elaine Lai

Winter Gather & Glow

Elaine Lai

Autumn Root & Begin

Elaine Lai

Summer Reflect & Release

Robbin Johnson-Perez

Spring Grow & Bloom

Robbin Johnson-Perez

Winter Gather & Glow

Robbin Johnson-Perez

Clear Verbal & Nonverbal Communication

Resilience Architecture Sequence

Peer Support and Crisis Communication

Peer Support Dynamics and Community Resilience

Star Power Mastery

Happy Hearts Together

Routine Heroes

Sunshine and Smiles

Joy Discovery Lab

The Joy Lab Sequence

Pressure Point Mastery

Joy Sparks

Boundary Pilots Sequence

Building Positive Friendships

Peer Support Rubric

Community Charter Template

Community Care Slides

Collective Coping Toolkit

Stressor Sorting Activity

Group Facilitation Slides

Campus Referral Organizer

Mood Hero Certificate

Mood Hero Comic Worksheet

Peer Support Case Studies

Best Part Circle Guide

Pride Portfolio Cover Student Lesson 5

Working Cooperatively in Groups

The Friendship Party

The Joy Exchange

Celebrating Friends

Community Care Project

Facilitating Group Discussions

Boundaries in Peer Support

Active Listening and Validation

Science of Social Support

Collaborative Creation

Joy Menu Maker

Designing a Community Care Plan

Navigating Shared Stressors

Communicating Personal Boundaries

Crew Culture

True Influence Journey

Marcia Cullinane

Staff Kinship Collective

Robbin Johnson-Perez

Mind Armor Academy

Michaela Gagne

Peace Patrol

Erin McFarland

Speak Up Squad

jcoates

Community of CARES

Annie Shields