Sharing Our Strengths Discussion Guide

A facilitation guide for teachers to lead a classroom discussion where students share their 'Strengths Stars'. It includes specific speaking prompts, active listening cues, and reflection questions to build a positive classroom community.

CNCaroline Nagar

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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

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

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

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.

Sharing Our Strengths Discussion Guide