Students practice the mechanical skills of banking by filling out sample deposit and withdrawal slips. They learn to read a bank ledger, identifying credits and debits to ensure the final balance is accurate.
A collaborative mental health workshop designed to help students navigate summer transition anxiety by identifying stressors, mapping coping strategies, and co-creating a personalized proactive emotional regulation plan.
A lesson focusing on critical digital citizenship skills, helping students navigate the web safely and make informed choices when posting, interacting, or pondering online situations.
A welcome packet designed for new upper elementary students transitioning to a new school. Features counselor introductions, interactive feelings trackers, physical coping strategy cards, anxiety-relief exercises, goal setting templates, and school activities organizers.
A gamified 2-session SEL small group unit where 3rd and 4th grade students explore, try out, and collect coping skills for their personal Coping Toolboxes.
A collaborative, student-centered lesson framework to support students transitioning back to school after anxiety-related absences using a graduated exposure pathway.
A complete conflict resolution lesson for 4th graders focused on mastering I-Statements and active listening. Students learn to build communication bridges instead of walls, practicing with real-world school conflicts and reflective activities.
A 40-minute guidance lesson that combines a mindful '10 Zen' period with a creative, drawing-heavy 'Dream Map' vision board activity for career goal setting. Includes a slide presentation, teacher script, and a student drawing sheet.
An interactive 4th-grade social-emotional lesson designed to help students navigate summer peer pressure, trust their gut feelings, regulate emotions during schedule changes, and build coping strategies for boredom and loneliness.
A social-emotional learning lesson focused on self-reflection and recognizing positive personal traits in oneself.
A lesson focused on self-reflection, identity, and positive personal characteristics where students create a personal identity map.
A highly visual, step-by-step social-emotional learning lesson focusing on recognizing and responding to physical body signals (heart rate, heat, breathing) and emotions. Tailored for 3rd and 4th graders, with explicit tools to connect internal feelings to helpful communication choices.
Students explore their expectations, excitements, and fears regarding the upcoming school year. They compile their wisdom for next year's class and write a letter of support to their future selves.
Students practice expressions of meaningful closure. They write gratitude notes to peers and teachers, process the emotions of physically leaving their current classroom, and celebrate their shared history.
In this lesson, students reflect on their highest and lowest points of the school year. They explore how challenging days built resilience and how successful moments deserve celebration, utilizing mountain and meadow imagery.
A visual, highly structured social-emotional learning lesson focusing on helpful vs. unhelpful communication. Tailored for 3rd and 4th graders, with explicit non-verbal communication supports (visual boards, sorting cards) to fully include students with autism.
An engaging animal-themed bingo icebreaker designed to help students build social connections, practice active listening, and share fun facts about animals. Includes printable 5x5 student bingo cards and teacher calling cards.
A counseling lesson that uses animal metaphors to teach self-regulation and coping skills. Students play an active, movement-based bingo game to practice and reinforce these calming strategies.
A therapeutic self-talk workshop for 3rd to 5th graders to identify their inner critic and build a physical compass of positive affirmations for navigating the transition into summer.
A comprehensive social skills lesson focusing on the 'I-Message' formula to resolve everyday conflicts. Includes an interactive slide deck, detailed lesson plan, anchor chart, student practice worksheet, and peer-to-peer scenario task cards.
A 15-minute small group lesson designed for school counselors and educators to build social-emotional intelligence in upper elementary students. The lesson uses a fun kitchen metaphor to teach empathy, active listening, personal boundaries, and peer conflict resolution.
A social-emotional learning lesson where students design a physical or digital pocket sanctuary with visual cues, breathing prompts, and self-soothing scripts to build self-regulation skills for summer break.
A transformative social-emotional learning lesson using the metaphor of a shaken glitter jar to help students understand emotional agitation, practice mindful breathing, and build a personalized daily coping toolkit.
A comprehensive 90-minute immersive workshop lesson where students complete cooperative challenges to master active listening, focus, and empathy.
A termination counseling session lesson bundle utilizing a basketball-themed CBT game to reinforce self-esteem, cognitive restructuring, growth mindset, and future growth planning.
A transition lesson for 3rd-5th grade students to construct a physical and mental safety net for the unstructured summer months. Students identify safe spots, trusted adults, and calming activities to ensure a safe, connected, and relaxing break.
Teaches physical and mental grounding exercises (including box breathing and sensory grounding) to manage transition stress, synthesizing all coping tools into a custom pocket-sized mini booklet.
Uses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) principles to identify past successes, list existing character strengths, and map out a supportive social network for middle school.
Focuses on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to help transitioning 4th graders identify, categorize, and reframe negative thoughts and anxieties about starting middle school.
A cognitive-behavioral workshop for 3rd-5th graders to process the school year's end through structured, prosocial gratitude telegrams to peers and staff.
A playful social-emotional learning lesson focusing on identifying emotions, somatic regulation, cognitive reframing, and assertive communication through engaging social stories.
A social-emotional learning lesson designed to help students build emotional regulation muscles using self-talk and breathing exercises across school and home scenarios.
A 4-session intervention plan using a structured 'Social Detective' scenario routine where students rotate through clinical roles (Main Character, Coach, and Data Helper) to build social-emotional skills and self-advocacy.
A collaborative workshop and toolkit designed to help parents of K-12 students establish healthy, co-created summer screen-time boundaries with their children through negotiation and mutual trust.
A parent workshop and planning kit to build collaborative, negotiated summer screen-time agreements that protect sleep, physical activity, and family connection.