Building Our Safe Space Lesson Plan

A comprehensive lesson plan for a 20-minute kindergarten activity focused on co-creating classroom routines and building a safe, inclusive environment. Includes preparation steps, detailed instructional procedures, and a list of required materials.

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Career Launchpad Curriculum

A comprehensive career exploration framework and counselor planning toolkit for grades K-12. This curriculum maps academic subjects to real-world career paths (college, trade school, and workforce) and provides counselors with implementation templates, annual pacing calendars, and a school-wide Career Day blueprint.

Hope Campbell

Calm Down Sensory Routine

A pediatric grounding and sensory regulation lesson featuring a self-squeeze physical therapy routine to help students self-soothe and calm down.

Andrew Casini

Self Squeeze Routine Poster

A clean, minimalist single-page routine chart featuring a calming 8-step self-squeeze physical therapy routine. Includes physical count-down touchpoints from 1 to 5 to help students track their grounding exercises directly on the poster.

Andrew Casini

Teamwork Treasures

A 3-day social-emotional learning series for grades K-2 focusing on cooperation, sharing, and peaceful turn-taking, aligned with the CASEL Relationship Skills competency.

Erin McFarland

Voice Power Academy

A kindergarten counseling lesson focused on self-advocacy and speaking up for needs. Students learn to use their strong voice to ask for help, breaks, or sensory tools as they prepare for the counseling group's transition/termination.

Stacia Gagne

Voice Power Pocket Cards

A student handout containing four printable, cut-out "Voice Power Pocket Cards." Students color, write their names, and cut out these visual reminder cards to carry in their pockets or tape to their desks to support self-advocacy in the general education classroom.

Stacia Gagne

The Sharing Squad

A 3-day SEL small-group intervention for grades K-2 focused on material sharing, turn-taking, and peaceful collaboration, aligned with the CASEL Relationship Skills competency. Each daily session is designed for 20 minutes with specific timestamps.

Erin McFarland

Friendship Garden Farewell

A warm, reflective closing lesson for the Friendship Garden small group. It provides students with creative keepsake coloring posters tailored to their grade levels to celebrate their growth and positive relationships.

Amy Fitzgibbon

Voice Power Practice Sheet

A student-facing printable practice worksheet for kindergarteners. Features name and date fields, a white creative drawing space to illustrate using their "Strong Voice", and a match-by-coloring activity for help, breaks, and sensory tools.

Stacia Gagne

Team Power Unit

A social-emotional learning sequence focused on developing cooperation and assertiveness in K-2 students through music, movement, and hands-on activities. Students learn to balance their own needs with the needs of the group to become effective 'Team Power' heroes.

Janayzha Smith

Horizon Hikers

A supportive, highly visual transition lesson for primary students (grades K-2) to reflect on classroom successes, map out summer coping tools and trusted helpers, and build confidence through sensory-friendly drawing prompts and a somatic brave chant.

Mallory Parrella

Voice Power Lesson Plan

A comprehensive teacher lesson plan and facilitator script for a kindergarten counseling session on self-advocacy. Features step-by-step guidance on teaching students to ask for help, breaks, or sensory tools, with specific phrasing for preparing for the group's transition/termination.

Building Our Safe Space Lesson Plan