A practical lesson introducing 8th graders to evidence-based healthy coping mechanisms. Students learn to identify stress triggers and build a personalized toolkit using grounding, reframing, physical outlets, and boundaries.
Focuses on building self-worth, identifying negative media messages, and shifting personal and peer narratives through positive self-talk strategies.
Teaches student leaders to identify the fine line between teasing and bullying, and equips them with safe, practical upstander intervention and peer support frameworks.
Equips PACT student leaders with core concepts of proactive inclusion, empathy, and positive peer-to-peer connection. Features a hands-on inclusion blueprint worksheet and peer training presentation.
An introductory lesson designed to demystify restorative justice circles for 8th-grade students in California, building trust and encouraging voluntary participation using an ASCA-aligned, trauma-informed lens.
A collaborative, student-centered lesson framework to support students transitioning back to school after anxiety-related absences using a graduated exposure pathway.
A lesson designed to check in with disengaged or bored students, gathering their insights through a creative survey to design a highly engaging, personalized experience for the upcoming school year.
A 40-minute guidance lesson that combines a mindful '10 Zen' period with a creative, drawing-heavy 'Dream Map' vision board activity for career goal setting. Includes a slide presentation, teacher script, and a student drawing sheet.
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 comprehensive lesson guiding students through identity exploration, strengths mapping, and structuring long-term personal goals into actionable milestones and daily habits.
A lesson focused on equipping middle schoolers with constructive communication strategies to resolve everyday conflicts, including group work disagreements, digital drama, boundary issues, and self-advocacy with teachers.
An interactive, small-group role-playing lesson designed to help middle schoolers navigate conflict resolution, peer pressure, digital misunderstandings, and teacher advocacy using positive communication frameworks.
A narrative-therapy-inspired workshop where middle and high school students map out their school year as a book with chapters to synthesize challenges, victories, and closures.