A handout for students listing the physical, social, and emotional signs of bullying to help them identify potential issues.
A high-impact informational handout that explains the critical link between parental support and a child's long-term success, featuring reflective prompts for parents.
A facilitator's guide featuring three impactful opening questions for the Parenting Journey presentation, along with tips for engaging parents and creating a supportive atmosphere.
A professional feedback form for parents to evaluate the Parenting Journey presentation, including rating scales and reflection questions.
A professional and welcoming presentation slide for Burlington Public Schools' Parenting Journey program, highlighting key benefits for parents at all stages.
A final celebratory slide deck for Week 8. Updated to fix tracking issues and quotation mark placement.
A final synthesis worksheet where students create a personalized 'Maintenance Plan'. Updated with enlarged writing areas, personalized tool lines, and better layout balance.
A facilitator guide for the final week of the program, guiding students through a comprehensive review and the creation of their own long-term anxiety management plans.
A presentation for Week 7 that explores social anxiety. Updated to improve text contrast, fix tracking issues, and provide clearer visual hierarchy.
A set of social scenario cards for small group work. Updated to fix page-break issues, add plan response areas, and improve the protocol layout.
A facilitator guide for Week 7, focusing on social anxiety, the 'spotlight effect' myth, and applying coping tools to peer-to-peer interactions.
A slide deck for Week 6, introducing cognitive distortions as 'glitches' and providing a framework for students to 'debug' their own anxious thoughts.
A cognitive reframing worksheet that uses a debugging metaphor. Updated to fix table page-break issues and add baselines for student handwriting.
A facilitator guide for Week 6, focusing on identifying and challenging cognitive distortions (glitches) through a computer programming metaphor.
A visual guide for Week 5, demonstrating Square Breathing and Progressive Muscle Relaxation techniques through simple, clear visuals.
A combination tool-guide and practice log for student master-tracking of physical relaxation techniques. Updated with a light background for student work and added PMR description.
A facilitator guide for Week 5, teaching students physical strategies like Square Breathing and Progressive Muscle Relaxation. Updated to resolve page-break issues.
A slide deck for Week 4 that explains the purpose of grounding. Updated to include quantity labels on the technique slide and improve text contrast.
A high-contrast reference card for the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique. Updated to consolidate to a single page and improve text contrast.
A detailed facilitator guide for Week 4, introducing grounding techniques as the first set of tools in the Mind Mechanics toolbox.
A presentation for Week 3 that defines anxiety triggers. Updated to fix tracking/kerning issues and improve text contrast.
A worksheet designed for students to audit their personal anxiety triggers across academic, social, and environmental domains, helping them build predictive awareness.
A detailed facilitator guide for Week 3 of the Mind Mechanics program, focusing on identifying individual anxiety triggers across academic, social, and environmental categories.
A visual presentation for Week 2, illustrating how physical sensations act as diagnostic 'sensors' for the brain's internal state. Updated with a concluding interactive slide and tool definitions.
An interactive body mapping activity where students identify and color-code their physical responses to anxiety. Updated with improved text contrast and unified page layout.
A detailed facilitator guide for Week 2 of the Mind Mechanics program, focusing on the physical manifestations of anxiety and how to identify 'body sensors'. Updated to fix page break issues.
