Shining Hope Handout

A 6-week social-emotional learning and counseling small group curriculum designed specifically for 1st graders to master impulse control, body regulation, blurting prevention, and patience through interactive stories, tactile crafts, and movement games.

A schoolwide holiday gift drive providing warm winter clothes and holiday gifts for students, including promotional flyers, hallway posters, and display banner signage.

A printable festive title banner and bulletin board header reading "Winter Giving Stockings," featuring glowing holiday lights, hanging stockings, and cheerful directional cues for the physical gift tag display.

A three-week social-emotional small group sequence designed for first graders to build self-worth, foster empathy, and cultivate an inclusive classroom community. Students explore personal identity, practice inviting peers into play, and celebrate group belonging.

Group members celebrate their self-regulation growth, complete an impulse obstacle course, and earn their Official Brain Brakes Champion badge.

A vibrant, animated-style poster for the Winter Giving Stockings drive, featuring glowing festive string lights, whimsical holiday stockings with student wish tags, step-by-step donation instructions, and SW office drop-off details.

A two-week social-emotional learning unit connecting self-control strategies with the Zones of Regulation, guiding elementary students from emotional awareness to active behavioral regulation.

Students distinguish between hyperactive cheetah speed and calm turtle speed, learning sensory breathing reset tools inspired by Breathe Like a Bear.

Official graduation certificate and superhero shield craft where students document their 6-week impulse control achievements and draw themselves as self-regulation superheroes.

An 8-month school-based CBT and DBT self-regulation curriculum designed for a first-grade student transitioning from staff co-regulation to independent emotional awareness. The curriculum moves through four 8-week developmental phases integrating body mapping, distress tolerance anti-elopement tools, cognitive reframing role-play, and classroom generalization.

First graders develop patience and coping strategies for waiting without whining through Waiting Is Not Easy! and interactive waiting wheels.

Facilitator guide for Week 6 graduation session featuring Even Superheroes Have Bad Days read-aloud discussion, the Brain Brakes Obstacle Course, and graduation celebration directions.