Emotion Detectives

A 4-week small-group intervention sequence designed for 8th grade students (ASD and IDML) to understand, build, and apply positive self-talk. Each 30-minute session uses visual anchors, concrete scripts, and guided practice to transform inner criticism into empowering self-advocacy.

Students simulate realistic middle school situations like tests, social interactions, and mistakes, applying their positive self-talk in real-time scenarios. They finalize a portable emergency cheat sheet and celebrate their growth.

A single-page student worksheet where learners match facial expressions, voice clues, and body positions to feelings, then analyze non-verbal clues in social case scenarios.

A comprehensive social-emotional learning sequence featuring structured lessons for self-regulation, emotional awareness, and positive peer connection across grade levels.

Students build personalized affirmation cards across four key categories: Calm, Capable, Brave, and Kind. Visual icons and customizable sentence stems help students construct authentic statements they believe and can rely on.

An interactive 7-slide presentation teaching students to detect and interpret non-verbal emotional clues across facial expressions, vocal tone and volume, and body language with guided discussion scenarios.

A four-week kinesthetic social-emotional learning sequence designed for students who benefit from movement. Across weekly 30-minute sessions, students discover somatic body signals, gauge emotional energy engines, track feeling shifts, and build an active regulation toolkit.

Students learn to detect negative self-talk traps and use a concrete 3-step formula to rewrite unhelpful thoughts into realistic, encouraging statements. Structured visual models and sentence frames support easy mastery.

A two-slide presentation on a white background with autumn colors for Counseling SEL November, featuring an instructional heading on Slide 2 guiding students on choosing Gratitude Gram categories.

A six-week small group curriculum for adolescent girls designed to build self-esteem, interpersonal loyalty, healthy boundaries, stress regulation, everyday etiquette, and future aspirations through engaging 30-minute weekly circles.

Students explore the difference between out-loud and inside-head talk, meeting their Inner Coach and Inner Critic. They learn the science of how supportive words calm the nervous system and build confidence for middle school challenges.

A comprehensive 2-page instructional guide for educators, featuring 30-minute pacing schedules, explicit modeling scripts, and targeted accommodations for 8th grade students with ASD and IDML.