Kids learn important life strategies while having fun with familiar Sesame Street characters. Kids will identify with each of the five problems, and they'll not only learn to calm down with deliberate deep breathing, they'll also be introduced to three possible strategies for working through each problem.
Sesame Street shares a video for students who are experiencing an incarcerated caregiver.
Sesame Street and Autism: Sesame Street in Communities Video Playlist
Sesame Street: Grief Toolkit Video Playlist
Designed for older students dealing with academic stress, Smiling Mind guides users through mindfulness activities. Beyond the app, the Smiling Mind website provides additional resources and activities for school counselors to help students.
Free 'Social Skills Story' Activity/ printout
This is a video that helps teach students with special needs, or students that struggle with social skills, appropriate responses when interacting with peers. Both positive and negative examples are given to show cause and effect. This resource helps reinforce positive social skills and can help students engage more appropriately with their peers.
After showing students this video, you can have them practice different scenarios, that will help them generalize appropriate social skills in their environment.
Speak Up About Unhealthy Relationships' Q&A style talking points about real teen experiences in unhealthy relationships.
This lesson plan is designed for a small group of 6th grade stuttering students that I have. We will be working on fluency skills and recording their progress weekly over the course of 1 month.
These include samples of the documents and forms that Stanford OHS uses with students and parents throughout the online college counseling process.
This video highlights a powerful activity called Dissolving Stereotypes. This activity can be used effectively with students or adults to explore experiences with stereotypes and hurtful words and ways to “dissolve” the hurt caused.
Learn how KB, Josh, Milton, and their friends deal with bullying. After watching each video, take a quiz to see how much you know about bullying.
The Student Attendance Success Plan is designed to help parents track their children's attendance and work with teachers to set appropriate goals. Each Student Attendance Success Plan includes a calendar for the current school year. Educators should consider distributing this plan to families.
In this lesson students will make written and verbal connections between their thinking and text evidence. They will begin this understanding by observing different forms of media and identifying what within the media is influencing their thinking. Then using different samples of poetry, students will create annotations within a Pages template to delineate what within the text connects to their thinking. Students will create responses to questions about the poetry and explicitly support their thinking with text evidence. Photo Citation: Corbin, Courtney. Image created using Pages. 21 July, 2023. Author's personal collection.
Hold a pledge signing event at your school or organization. It's easy, it's a great way to get involved and it makes a difference.
This lesson is designed to help students understand how they can be the change with cyberbullying. Students will work together in small groups to come up with a plan to be the change in their classroom and school. oThe standard is the not included below but is ISTE Student Standard for Digital Citizenship - 2b.
Teasing is different than bullying in how often it happens and how a person feels when it is happening. Poking fun and playful teasing happen among friends – but when it's hurtful, it's probably bullying. If someone feels hurt from what's happening, it is bullying even if the words or actions are directed to someone else.
