Crinkled Heart Activity

A two-page hands-on worksheet for first graders. Page one features the 'Crinkled Heart' activity to visualize the impact of mean words. Page two provides a drawing space for students to reflect on 'fixing the hurt' and being a kindness hero.

JMJasmin Mendez

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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

Growing Voices

A reflective counseling lesson celebrating emotional expression, triumph over shyness, and setting intentions for speaking up with confidence in group settings.

Emoni Anderson

Heart and Voice Certificate

A beautiful, warm, and reflective landscape-inspired keepsake award certificate and interactive student reflection document celebrating a student's personal growth and triumph over shyness in group counseling.

Emoni Anderson

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

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

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

Friendship Farewell Facilitator Guide

A comprehensive teacher-facing resource detailing the final session outline for the Friendship Garden small group. It provides pacing, structured discussion prompts, a closing circle ritual, and facilitation instructions for the keepsake posters.

Amy Fitzgibbon

Flex and Flow

A social-emotional learning unit for first graders to master peer conflict resolution. Through physical metaphors, visual scaling, and calming exercises, students learn to transition from rigid thinking to flexible problem-solving.

jcoates

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

Blooming Friends Reflection Poster

An interactive, beautifully themed keepsake coloring poster for 2nd-3rd grade students. It combines garden-themed coloring illustrations with short, creative reflection prompts to celebrate their friendship journey.

Crinkled Heart Activity