Be a Buddy Not a Bully

A 6-session brief counseling sequence designed for early elementary students to build emotional regulation and core executive functioning skills. Students learn to recognize emotional states, practice impulse control, break down tasks, manage materials, and adapt flexibly to daily school challenges.

Students develop cognitive flexibility to handle unexpected changes, schedule shifts, and mistakes. They assemble their personal Super Brain Squad toolbelt and celebrate their counseling growth.

A single-page printable classroom job application form featuring student info with Name, Date, and Team, ranked job selection, open response qualifications for the 1st choice role, and signatures for student, parent/guardian, and teacher.

A targeted social-emotional kindergarten group curriculum helping young learners move from cognitive rigidity to flexible thinking, approach nonpreferred tasks with confidence, and manage frustration through hands-on practice.

Students build physical organization routines by inspecting their backpacks, desks, and supplies like real detectives. They master a quick 3-step sort system to keep essential tools ready.

An early-elementary student culmination activity featuring flexible thinking scenarios, a 6-skill toolbelt checklist, and a graduation completion badge.

A four-lesson social-emotional learning unit for first graders focused on foundational friendship behaviors, puppet social stories, movement-based responses, and cooperative play.

Students strengthen working memory by using mental sticky notes, self-talk echoes, and picture anchors. They practice following 2-3 step multi-step classroom directions without getting distracted.

A concise 1-page counselor session guide for Session 6 focusing on cognitive flexibility, coping with changes and mistakes, synthesis of the 6 core skills, and group graduation.

An early-elementary student activity page featuring the 3-Pile Sort detective game, a desk launchpad map, and a daily backpack inspection checklist.