Week 4 culminates in students making personal commitments to maintain a safe and inclusive classroom environment.
A lesson focused on self-reflection, identity, and positive personal characteristics where students create a personal identity map.
A bilingual English-Spanish therapeutic resource set for an 11-year-old student struggling with school avoidance and social anxiety. It includes a comprehensive self-guided workbook and a facilitator guide to build tolerance, reframe classmates' curious stares, and complete a 20-day exposure challenge.
A highly visual, step-by-step social-emotional learning lesson focusing on recognizing and responding to physical body signals (heart rate, heat, breathing) and emotions. Tailored for 3rd and 4th graders, with explicit tools to connect internal feelings to helpful communication choices.
A reflective Social-Emotional Learning session for high school students (grades 9-12) to audit, analyze, and celebrate their personal and social growth over the school year using analytical financial metaphors.
A comprehensive lesson designed for 9th-12th Grade students to establish daily wellness 'anchors'—essential habits, social connections, and community resources—to structure their summer break and support mental well-being when school routines dissolve.
Students explore their expectations, excitements, and fears regarding the upcoming school year. They compile their wisdom for next year's class and write a letter of support to their future selves.
Students practice expressions of meaningful closure. They write gratitude notes to peers and teachers, process the emotions of physically leaving their current classroom, and celebrate their shared history.
In this lesson, students reflect on their highest and lowest points of the school year. They explore how challenging days built resilience and how successful moments deserve celebration, utilizing mountain and meadow imagery.
A visual, highly structured social-emotional learning lesson focusing on helpful vs. unhelpful communication. Tailored for 3rd and 4th graders, with explicit non-verbal communication supports (visual boards, sorting cards) to fully include students with autism.
An engaging animal-themed bingo icebreaker designed to help students build social connections, practice active listening, and share fun facts about animals. Includes printable 5x5 student bingo cards and teacher calling cards.
A social-emotional learning lesson for grades K-1 introducing flexible thinking through the metaphor of a stiff rock versus a stretchy rubber band.
An intensive, reflective end-of-unit session for 3rd graders focused on emotional regulation during peer conflict. Students review critical scenarios like losing games, turn-taking, peer exclusion, and accidental bumps, demonstrating coping tools and setting future goals.
A counseling lesson that uses animal metaphors to teach self-regulation and coping skills. Students play an active, movement-based bingo game to practice and reinforce these calming strategies.
