Introduction to the program, reviewing current progress with Pause and Plan, and identifying personal "middle school" goals for impulse control.
A reflective end-of-year lesson for grades 3-5 that frames the school year as a mountain expedition. Students map out their achievements ('peaks') and identify the strategies and support ('tools') they used to overcome obstacles, building self-efficacy for the next grade level.
A comprehensive preparation toolkit for Career Day, equipping both guest speakers and student interviewers with structured guides, question banks, and evaluation rubrics to ensure engaging and meaningful professional dialogues.
A high-energy, collaborative building challenge where student teams design and construct towers under shifting constraints. This lesson is specifically engineered to target active communication, resilience when faced with unexpected roadblocks, and group decision-making.
A cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused counseling lesson tailored for a 4th-grade boy struggling with anger and peer conflicts (particularly with girls). It reframes emotional self-regulation and social collaboration as the ultimate indicators of status and power, using a high-engagement retro video game theme.
A transition-focused counseling lesson for 5th-grade students preparing for the major shift to middle school, centering on identifying core supportive networks, framing complex feelings about change, and building a self-care anchor.
A developmental counseling lesson for 3rd-grade students focused on identifying personal strengths, tracking school year progress, and building a customizable summer coping suitcase to manage big feelings.
A supportive counseling session tailored for 1st-grade students to celebrate their visible emotional and social growth this year, introduce interactive 'Ocean Breathing' coping techniques, and capture their accomplishments in a highly visual, low-color printable keepsake.