Friendship Recipe Lesson

An 8-week evidence-based small-group counseling curriculum designed for upper elementary and middle school students. Focuses on building authentic self-confidence, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and proactive self-advocacy skills through 20-30 minute weekly sessions.

Students reflect on growth, celebrate newfound self-confidence and self-advocacy wins, complete their post-group self-assessment, and build a forward-looking action plan.

Printable post-curriculum self-assessment, reflection, and Certificate of Courage for Week 8 to mark 8-week graduation.

A transition and academic awareness curriculum guiding middle schoolers through grading expectations, study strategies, and future academic planning.

Students learn how to set healthy boundaries, resist peer pressure comfortably, and say a respectful and firm no without feeling guilty.

Visual presentation for Week 8 celebrating curriculum completion, reflecting on 8-week growth, and establishing a future self-advocacy plan.

A comprehensive four-part social-emotional learning sequence empowering upper elementary and middle school students to master personal boundaries, dynamic conversation skills, assertive self-advocacy, and restorative conflict resolution. Each lesson combines visual instructional slides with actionable student practice materials.

Students develop practical self-advocacy skills to ask teachers and peers for academic and emotional help using a 4-step advocacy script.

Printable student boundary-setting worksheet for Week 7 with personal limits circles, refusal strategy menu, and peer pressure response practice.

A three-part small group counseling series designed to equip students with emotional awareness, proactive somatic and cognitive coping strategies, and effective help-seeking skills. Students learn to spot early emotional warning signs, deploy practical grounding techniques, and activate personal support networks.

Students differentiate passive, aggressive, and assertive communication styles while practicing confident posture, eye contact, and clear 'I' statements.

Visual presentation for Week 7 examining healthy personal boundaries, peer pressure defense strategies, and respectful ways to say no.