Functional behavior assessment, data tracking, and de-escalation strategies for managing classroom conduct. Addresses positive reinforcement, token economies, and individualized behavior contracts to support student self-regulation.
A lesson designed to help students distinguish between Small and Big Problems and choose safe regulation strategies instead of physical reactions. It includes a social story, practice worksheet, and strategy reference guide.
A social-emotional lesson focused on identifying internal signals of anxiety and selecting appropriate self-regulation tools. Students will learn to recognize 'glitches' in their system and deploy 'countermeasures' to stay on track.
A resource to help students self-monitor their behavior and effort during a single learning session.
A set of resources designed to help students manage anxiety and stay focused during spelling tests and assessments using grounding and self-regulation techniques.
A comprehensive social skills lesson for 3rd graders focused on sharing, turn-taking, and cooperative play during recess-style activities. Includes strategies for waiting and fair play dialogue.
A midpoint review lesson designed to help students assess their progress in coping skills, update their personal strategies, and reflect on their growth. Using a 'Summit Scout' expedition theme, students evaluate their mastery of three core goals and refine their personal coping toolbox.
A targeted intervention lesson designed for a 3rd-grade student to build self-awareness during recess. Using a 'Recess Playbook' sports theme, it frames social interactions as 'plays' to help manage reactions to losing, perceived unfairness, and accidental contact.
Reviewing all steps and setting a long-term goal for classroom independence.
Practicing 'Pause Power' in controlled classroom situations.
Understanding how charting success leads to 'Power Rewards' (bonus break time).
Preparing to transition back to academic work and re-entering the classroom flow.
Activities during the 'Pause' that lead to regaining self-control and readiness to learn.
The mechanics of requesting a break through verbal and non-verbal cues.
Understanding what a 'Pause Power' break is, its purpose (self-control, not just escape), and how it works.
Identifying the feelings of 'shutting down' or avoidance and framing them as signals that it's time for a 'Pause'.
A set of tools for school counselors to effectively communicate student social-emotional progress with families, ensuring a collaborative approach to support.
Visual cues and routines to help toddlers understand and follow the steps of using the potty.
Provides practical tools for resolving conflicts and maintaining peace with peers in various social settings.
Focuses on kindness toward classmates and respectful communication with teachers to foster a positive learning environment.
Explores the importance of honesty and taking responsibility for one's actions as a way to build trust and character.
A social-emotional learning lesson designed for students with trauma backgrounds and impulse control challenges. It focuses on 'Scene Scanning'—assuming positive intent and dissecting social interactions through a detective-style lens to improve perspective-taking and reduce reactivity.
Students will identify and practice specific sensory, physical, and cognitive tools to manage their energy levels and return to the Green Zone.
Students learn to compare the magnitude of a problem with the intensity of their reaction, ensuring they match appropriately.
Explorers build their own regulation toolbox, identifying and testing strategies to help them stay in or return to the Green Zone.
Students become investigators of their own bodies, identifying physical sensations that signal a change in their emotional zone.
Students explore the four color zones, matching specific emotions to each land to build a foundational vocabulary for self-regulation.
Using Minecraft analogies to manage 'Creeper moments' (unexpected setbacks) and collaborative building conflicts in digital sandbox environments.
A comprehensive binder of emotional regulation and coping tools for a 2nd-grade student. Featuring a friendly cat theme, these visual-heavy resources support feelings identification, break-taking, problem-solving, and classroom engagement with minimal reading required.
Generalizing the pause button skill to everyday life situations and creating a personalized 'remote control' of regulation strategies.
Applying pause strategies to physical building activities like LEGOs and Magnatiles, focusing on handling 'collapsed' projects or sharing materials.
Using video game analogies to teach students how to 'pause' when they feel frustrated or need to transition away from screen time.
A 40-minute individual counseling session designed for a 10-year-old with language-based learning disabilities, focusing on visual tools to communicate needs without yelling or shutting down. Uses a gaming theme where emotional states are compared to 'Lagging' or 'Frozen' screens.
A lesson designed to help students in behavior support programs identify their current emotional state, recognize triggers, and select appropriate coping strategies for self-regulation.
A small-group counseling session designed to help students identify the 'size' of their problems and select appropriate coping tools from a 'Calm Down Menu' to regulate frustration and prevent tantrums.
A comprehensive social-emotional learning lesson designed to help students identify sensory overstimulation signals and practice self-regulation strategies like taking space and using headphones.
A supportive lesson focused on easing school-re-entry anxiety and providing concrete strategies for students transitioning back after a break.
A supportive, one-on-one session designed to provide a student with practical coping strategies while their mother is hospitalized. The lesson focuses on emotional regulation, following adult guidance, and maintaining physical safety in the classroom through hands-on activities.
A 30-minute restorative lesson on determination for elementary students, focusing on persistence, goal-setting, and community support through a restorative circle.
A collection of resources to support a student, their family, and their teacher following the loss of a grandparent, focusing on emotional processing and practical classroom/home strategies.
Students apply the coaching techniques to a real, independent task and self-assess their use of 'Coach Voice' using a rubric.
Students practice a verbal checklist routine ('Pencil? Check. Paper? Check. Name? Check.') to turn preparation into an active game rather than a passive wait.
Students learn the 5-4-3-2-1-GO technique to bypass hesitation and build the association between a verbal countdown and physical movement.
Using character cards with specific distraction problems, students act out solutions where they talk the character through ignoring the distraction and starting the work. They practice firm but kind verbal redirection.
Students are introduced to the concept of the 'Brain Coach'—the part of the mind that directs action. They classify statements as either 'Coach' talk (directive, encouraging) or 'Spectator' talk (passive, observational).
The sequence culminates in the creation of a shared classroom agreement that establishes norms for noise, space, and sensory support.
Students identify high-stress transition times and brainstorm proactive routines to maintain sensory regulation when moving between activities.
Students finalize and present their personal regulation plans, outlining their preferred signals, strategies, and check-in times.
The class practices whole-group regulation techniques like synchronized breathing and chair yoga to understand how collective action affects the energy of the room.
Students collaboratively organize the classroom's break area, creating labels and instructions to ensure the space is used effectively and respectfully.
Students explore how sensory preferences vary between individuals and practice perspective-taking to understand and respect classmates' different needs.
Students conduct a hands-on audit of their classroom to identify environmental sensory triggers and discuss how these factors impact their ability to focus and stay calm.
Students practice a structured system for requesting sensory breaks using non-verbal signals and 'break tickets' to foster independence and communication.
Students learn to match sensory breaks to different classroom contexts, ensuring that their regulation strategies are effective without being disruptive.
Students review the class schedule to identify transition times, long periods of sitting, and high-focus subjects to predict 'danger zones' where proactive regulation is most needed.
Students master a 2-minute 'Re-entry Interview' protocol to formalize the end of a dysregulation cycle and communicate their readiness to teachers and peers.
Addresses the 'shame spiral' associated with meltdowns, teaching students to separate their identity from their behavior through positive self-talk and growth mindset stories.
Provides concrete strategies for re-joining academic instruction after a break, including using peer buddies and quiet check-ins to reduce the stress of missed work.
Focuses on restorative practices by distinguishing between a forced apology and a genuine repair, using case studies to brainstorm ways to fix social or physical messes.
Students identify physical and emotional signs of being 'ready' to rejoin the group using a thermometer analogy and create a personalized 'Green Light' checklist for self-assessment.
Students practice tracking 'internal wins'—times they felt angry but chose a positive behavior. They learn to value emotional control even if the chart doesn't capture the internal struggle.
Students learn that a mark on a behavior chart is temporary. The lesson focuses on 'resetting' after a negative behavior and working back toward positive status.
Students focus on the 'warning' or 'struggle' stage of a behavior chart. They learn specific coping skills (breathing, taking a break) to prevent moving to the 'Red Zone.'
The class introduces a color-coded tracking system (e.g., Green/Yellow/Red zones). Students practice categorizing scenarios into the correct color zones based on intensity and impact.
Students map different emotions to specific behaviors that might appear on a chart, discussing how feelings like frustration can lead to behaviors like shouting out.
Students learn about the 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' brain to understand the biological basis of emotional dysregulation and the importance of early recognition.
Students investigate external factors that cause stress, categorizing them into sensory, social, or academic triggers while analyzing patterns.
Students participate in a body-scanning activity to identify physical signs of stress and create a visual body map connecting sensations to emotions.
A Tier 3 individual lesson focused on teaching self-regulation strategies (requesting breaks and virtual refueling) to manage dysregulation and reduce elopement. This lesson uses a superhero/detective theme to empower students to stay in the classroom.
This Tier 3 intervention lesson empowers individual students to manage dysregulation and reduce elopement by teaching them to request breaks or use a virtual refueling room as replacement behaviors.
A targeted Tier 3 individual session helping students identify personal behavioral triggers and develop proactive coping strategies through a 'Behavior Detective' framework.
A 15-minute lesson for 3rd graders to master a 5-second attention signal ('1, 2, 3, eyes on me!'), improving classroom efficiency and learning time.
A quick 5-minute lesson to help elementary students identify early signs of anger and learn the S.T.O.P. technique to calm down before anger escalates.
A targeted social-emotional lesson for an 8-year-old student focusing on identifying frustration triggers, reading social cues, and replacing physical aggression with verbal communication through a 'Frustration Fighter' superpower theme.
An intensive Tier 3 small-group session where students become 'Zone Detectives' to uncover personal situational cues and physiological responses to their triggers and sparks.
A general introduction to 'triggers' and 'sparks' using a slide deck and creative activity to help students understand what causes their emotional shifts between Zones.
This lesson empowers elementary students to self-monitor their actions by identifying personal triggers and developing positive behavior strategies through a 'Behavior Boss' framework.
A set of reflection tools for students in grades K-5 to process behavioral incidents through the lens of core values: Respect, Responsibility, and Regard for Others. Includes tiered versions for lower and upper elementary students.
A high-energy, 30-minute introduction to responsibility for K-4 students, featuring a scenario-based hook, clear definitions, and interactive choice-sorting activities.
The final three weeks focus on making amends, setting future goals, and celebrating the progress made throughout the Social Detective program.
Weeks 7-9 address physical aggression, understanding consequences, and deep-diving into reading social clues to build empathy.
The first three weeks of the Social Detective intervention, focusing on building self-awareness and understanding the core concepts of empathy and physical body cues.
Weeks 4-6 of the intervention, focusing on practical impulse control strategies like the 'Pause Button' and addressing specific behaviors like lying and respecting property.
A comprehensive 60-minute introduction to growth mindset for elementary students, focusing on the science of the brain and the "Power of Yet" through hands-on activities, journaling, and group games.
A foundational character-building lesson for 3rd graders focusing on kindness, integrity, and the power of a growth mindset through relatable scenarios and reflective activities.
A collection of de-escalation and task-persistence tools designed to help students self-regulate during moments of frustration or emotional escalation. Includes choice boards for calming down and strategies for sticking with difficult academic tasks.
A targeted intervention for a fast-paced student to manage impulsivity, recognize triggers, and maintain 'safe mode' through a pilot-themed self-regulation framework.
A cumulative review of all 'Flexi-Mind' skills, where the student creates a long-term 'Gold Medal' coping plan for future challenges.
A quick counseling lesson for 3rd-grade students to manage tone and volume of voice when receiving 'no' as an answer. It uses visual metaphors of a sound board and voice meter to build self-awareness and emotional regulation.
A social-emotional learning lesson designed to help students identify 'big feelings' and practice safe replacement behaviors for physical aggression. Includes a narrative story, situational practice, and a personalized reflection plan.
This lesson focuses on identifying internal emotional states and using visual check-ins to monitor stress levels before they lead to disruptions.
A social-emotional learning lesson focusing on the Size of the Problem framework, CBT thought-feeling connections, and Social Thinking concepts of expected vs. unexpected behaviors. Students analyze classroom and digital scenarios to build self-regulation and problem-solving skills.
A comprehensive lesson for 3rd graders on emotional regulation, safety boundaries, and conflict resolution. Students learn to distinguish between 'Big Feelings' and 'Harmful Actions' while building a 'Success Strategy' toolkit.
A comprehensive social-emotional learning lesson focused on helping students match the size of their reaction to the size of the problem, specifically addressing impulsive verbal aggression during dysregulation.
A foundational lesson for kindergarteners on understanding and responding to non-verbal visual cues in the classroom. Teaches students to follow simple and multi-step directions using icons and pictorial prompts.
A lesson focused on identifying triggers and applying coping strategies for managing anger in school settings, specifically peer conflict, teacher directions, and academic challenges.
A comprehensive wrap-up session for Second Step Tier 2 small groups for girls, featuring the 'Spark Your Strength' theme. Reviews the TFA triangle, perspective-taking, problem-solving, and resilience.
Students learn to predict social outcomes and identify replacement strategies by analyzing the 'ripple effect' of their actions in various scenarios.
