Stories from Different Shoes Reading Resource

Counselor Planning Toolkit containing a K-12 annual pacing calendar, school-wide Career Day implementation action plan, and a printable Career Day Student Passport.

A comprehensive K-12 career exploration curriculum map linking school subjects to college, trade school, and workforce pathways. Spans elementary, middle, and high school grade bands with specific learning targets, activities, and developmental milestones.

A set of 6 printable roleplay scenario cards for hands-on conflict resolution practice. Each card features a realistic friendship dispute, designated roles, and a specific skill challenge for students to solve using active listening and mediation.

A print-ready 2-page Student Activity Packet for the Bridge Builders workshop. Features an active listening analysis, guided I-statement scaffolding, a peer mediation path map, and a formal signable Bridge Builder Pledge.

A comprehensive 3-page Counselor Facilitator Guide for the Bridge Builders conflict resolution workshop. Contains a detailed workshop schedule, scripted session instructions, active listening prompts, and a structured peer mediation framework.

A teacher's facilitation guide for running the Acoustics of Empathy lesson. It provides guidance on preparing students, setting classroom norms, conducting a 45-minute lesson sequence, and safely debriefing the emotional impact of hate speech.

A student handout for 8th graders on hate speech and empathy. Page 1 contains a high-interest reading titled 'Loud Silence' analyzing the impact of hate speech on school climate with simplified vocabulary, and Page 2 is a structured reflection worksheet titled 'The Acoustic Map' to process the reading and commit to inclusive actions.

A comprehensive, 3-page master answer key and facilitation guide for teachers. It provides detailed model student responses using the L.E.A.R.N. framework for all 8 real-life peer scenarios, along with specific evaluation rubrics and conversation tips.

A comprehensive 3-page teacher facilitation guide for the 4-week Orbit Odyssey morning meetings. It features a detailed 15-minute pacing breakdown, explicit verbal scripts for choral responses (ship logs and daily affirmations), active sensory cues for daily cosmic energy checks, and structured guidelines for a timed crew turn-and-talk sharing session. Featuring Commander Sosnoff.

A 26-slide presentation for a 4-week, 20-day space explorer themed morning meeting series. Designed specifically for middle school scholars with disabilities, it is led by Commander Sosnoff. Features daily ship logs, cosmic energy/sensory checks, stellar affirmations, and timed turn-and-talk sharing prompts, with no text smaller than 24px.

A compact, 1-page professional facilitator guide for teachers or counselors running the Middle School Playbook lesson. Includes pacing, slide-by-slide guiding prompts, answers/discussion keys for the 4 scenarios, and checklist debrief directions.

A premium 10-slide presentation styled like a tactical sports/gaming playbook. Teaches middle school transition coping skills, size of problems, and specific tactics for chaotic hallways, rule-breaking peers, and group work, featuring 4 interactive scenarios with minimum 24px font sizes.

A clean, straightforward single-page printable coping skills checklist designed for middle schoolers. Features categorized, highly compliant, actionable coping strategies for handling sensory hallway chaos, group work struggles, and rule-breaking peers without non-permitted items like hoods or headphones.

A highly interactive, student-facing workbook designed for a 7th grader (ages 12-13). It includes tactical activities such as mapping physiological stress signals on an anatomical vector body outline, logging daily autonomic states, scaling triggers on a 1-5 escalation meter, and crafting printable coping matrix cards.

A comprehensive step-by-step facilitation guide for school counselors or clinical therapists. It provides clinical scripts, session structures, progress tracking, and professional strategies for individual Tier 3 anxiety intervention for middle schoolers (ages 12-14).

A single-page guided reflection worksheet for students who acted as bystanders, helping them analyze their psychological barriers and build low-risk intervention plans.