A reflection-focused lesson designed to help third, fourth, and fifth-grade students celebrate their academic, emotional, and social growth over the past year while setting hopeful goals for the future.
A complete toolkit for students to master the art of being an active, respectful, and constructive audience member during peer presentations. Includes audience expectations and an interactive presentation tracker.
A culminating reflection and community project lesson where students synthesize all five CARES values. Students create a class pledge, award certificates, and design a community action project to show their learning.
A social-emotional learning lesson centered on self-control, emotional regulation, and mindfulness. Students practice somatic grounding and cool-down techniques to manage big emotions in real-time.
A social-emotional learning lesson on empathy, active compassion, and perspective-taking. Students learn to recognize emotional cues in others and practice walking in someone else's shoes to solve social dilemmas.
A social-emotional learning lesson teaching personal accountability, civic responsibility, and classroom roles. Students identify how their individual choices affect the safety and success of the whole community.
A social-emotional learning lesson focused on assertive communication, active listening, and setting respectful boundaries. Students practice using "I-Statements" to express their needs and opinions respectfully.
A social-emotional learning lesson focusing on cooperation, collaborative problem solving, and group agreement. Students explore how to share ideas, compromise, and build together as a team.
A beginning-of-the-year lesson teaching students the schoolwide HALLS procedure for safe and respectful hallway transitions. This lesson covers explicit teacher modeling, interactive student roleplay, and self-assessment of the HALLS expectations.
A hands-on transition workshop helping rising middle schoolers navigate their feelings, identify future activities, and set friendship goals through a interactive 'Suitcase' craft.
An interactive, outdoor growth mindset scavenger hunt for 4th and 5th graders. Students take on the role of Resilience Rangers, navigating outdoor trail stations to tackle challenges, practice emotional regulation, reframe mistakes, and build persistent mental habits.
A lesson focusing on the power of expressing appreciation to build a positive community. 3rd-5th grade students reflect on school-year supporters and create physical 'tokens of thanks' to display in a classroom gallery walk, facilitating a positive transition to the next grade.
A social-emotional learning lesson for 2nd and 3rd graders based on the book 'Bully Beans' by Julia Cook. Students learn to distinguish between 'mean moments' and 'bullying' and practice active strategies to stand up for themselves and others.
An assessment-focused lesson that evaluates third-grade students' ability to apply the 'Stop, Think, Act' framework to common social conflicts. Students complete a scenario-based workbook, and teachers score their responses using a clinical rubric focusing on emotional regulation and green choice actions.
Day 4 of the Skill Matchers unit. Students demonstrate mastery of emotional self-regulation in various situations through scenario roleplay and complete the post-unit assessment.
Day 3 of the Skill Matchers unit. Students match specific coping tools to different physical environments (such as quiet libraries or active recess) to understand situational appropriateness.
Day 2 of the Skill Matchers unit. Students explore personal coping strategies and design a personalized, multi-sensory booklet of tools mapped to different energy levels.
Day 1 of the Skill Matchers unit. Students learn to identify their internal emotional state (energy and feeling) and analyze their external environment's rules and volume levels.
A comprehensive classroom expectations rollout for Week 1 of the school year. Includes a teacher guide and three separate grade-band slide decks (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) designed with a Marley Park green and yellow superhero theme.
A restorative peer-mediation lesson designed for 4th graders to resolve conflict through perspective-taking, active listening, and empathetic repair. Includes a clear facilitator guide for teachers or counselors and printable, step-by-step interview cards for students.