Healing Heart Toolkit

A comprehensive 5-day social-emotional learning sequence designed to empower students to proactively welcome, include, and support new peers in their program. Students develop perspective-taking, conversation skills, respectful curiosity toward differences, and practical bystander intervention strategies.

A high-impact 40-minute middle school SEL and advisory lesson that guides students to redefine success beyond wealth and fame through debate cases, obstacle identification, and actionable personal planning.

A two-page middle school Zones of Regulation worksheet focusing on emotional self-awareness, physiological body signals, peer situations, and discreet, covert regulation tools for the classroom.

A comprehensive three-part social-emotional learning sequence that equips classrooms with proactive greeting skills, open-circle inclusion routines, and empathetic problem-solving strategies to welcome new students smoothly and warmly.

A welcoming first-session lesson plan where students learn each other's names, uncover mutual interests through low-pressure prompts, and establish positive group norms. Includes structured warm-ups, an interactive connection matrix, and reflective debriefs that build psychological safety.

A 1-page formative assessment rubric for teachers and middle school students, detailing a 4-level scoring guide across authentic success definition, agency/control, action step specificity, and growth mindset, complete with feedback stems.

A 3-part mindfulness, yoga, and breathing sequence designed to help students master physiological calming mechanisms, physical grounding poses, and proactive emotional regulation strategies.

A comprehensive communication skills lesson guiding students through calm problem-solving, perspective-taking, I-statements, and respectful disagreement using guided practice and interactive scenarios.

A comprehensive 2-page instructional guide for teachers, providing minute-by-minute facilitation scripts, kinesthetic classroom setup for Success Court, case debriefing keys, equity considerations, and differentiation strategies.

A comprehensive 6-session grief support sequence designed for school counselors and small groups to help students understand grief, build coping tools, process complex feelings, map support networks, prepare for milestones, and honor lasting memories.

Students synthesize their skills by rehearsing real-world welcoming scenarios, assembling a group Welcome Playbook, and taking the Welcome Crew commitment pledge.