Heart and Space Support

A four-day, 30-minute creative unit for grades K-3 designed to foster early-year friendships and community bonds. Students participate in cooperative photo booth sessions, craft personalized frames, and design a collaborative class book.

Students design individual collage pages using their photos, which are bound into a class book, and then read and reflect together on their new classroom community.

Printable half-sheet templates for Day 4 collage pages, providing structured spaces for photos and fill-in-the-blank friendship sentences, plus a class book cover.

A three-day back-to-school sequence focused on welcoming students to the aftercare room and building a supportive community. Students introduce themselves, design custom name badges, complete creative 'Getting to Know Me' coloring sheets, and celebrate with a shared movie screening and treats.

Students return to the photo booth for a second round of pictures, this time focusing on goofy prompts and collective group action to break the ice and build shared memories.

A printable sheet of team-building photo booth cards for Day 3, prompting larger group poses, goofy expressions, and collaborative storytelling.

A comprehensive sequence of classroom management frameworks spanning PreK through Grade 8, detailing visual self-regulation routines for early elementary, peer-led cooperative monitoring for upper elementary, and restorative agency frameworks for middle school.

Students design and decorate popsicle-stick frames for their printed Day 1 photographs, sharing stories and building appreciation for their new classmates.

Interactive visual slide deck displaying step-by-step instructions for decorating popsicle stick photo frames and conversational "table talk" prompts for peer bonding on Day 2.

A comprehensive ASCA-aligned school counseling program framework designed for The Leah Chase School. Tailored for a single K-8 counselor in a Title I, NOLA-PS district-run school in its third year of operation, covering program management, MTSS, SEL, and career exploration.

Students engage in their first photo booth experience, working with partners and small groups to select props, collaborate on poses, and begin building new peer connections.

Printable cards featuring creative and active posing ideas designed for young children to use with partners or groups in the photo booth on Day 1.