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Encourage, Empower, and Help Children Grow in Self-Confidence
What gets you going each day?
Join a classroom of kids as they share the voices that lift them up on tough days. From supportive caregivers and teachers to helpful friends and coaches, these everyday heroes inspire children to face challenges, embrace mistakes, and celebrate their unique journeys.
Because You Believe in Me is a beautiful reminder that even the smallest words of encouragement can make a world of difference.
This heartwarming book is perfect for:
With Because You Believe in Me children will learn that they are capable of amazing things, and that they are never alone on their journey.
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Calming the Mind, Challenging Thoughts, and Building Confidence
Are you looking for a tool to help your students learn how to understand and manage anxiety?
This workbook will do that and more. Teach ASCA-aligned skills in thirty-minute lessons for small group or classroom instruction. Everything you need, with minimal prep time and no extra materials required!
Flexible and easily adaptable for classroom and small group settings, the 30-Minute Groups: Anxiety Management workbook is rooted in a research-backed commitment to help children become more confident, steady, and determined to grow and thrive in school, work, and life.
Inside, you’ll find:
Topics include understanding anxiety, the 4 F’s (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn), the brain science of anxiety, coping skills, and more. The lessons and questions in this thoughtfully crafted resource are designed to help students get curious about anxiety and learn tips and techniques they can incorporate into their thoughts, words, and behaviors that allow them to feel safe in their bodies and navigate through worry.
This workbook’s design allows students to connect with characters from each lesson’s story, while also having fun and building community with their peers. Use the 30-Minute Groups: Anxiety Management workbook to help provide a strong foundation for students to become more connected and resilient learners!
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Processing Emotions, Honoring Memories, and Finding Hope
Loss is a universal experience that can profoundly impact a child’s development and life experiences. The 30-Minute Groups: Grief curriculum offers a compassionate and structured approach to help young learners process their grief and build resilience.
A Safe Space for Healing Through Loss
This comprehensive curriculum provides a safe and supportive environment for students to explore their emotions, share their stories, and connect with others who understand. Through engaging activities and thoughtful discussions, children will learn valuable coping strategies and better understand their grief journey.
Key Features and Benefits:
What’s Inside:
Topics Include:
The 30-Minute Groups: Grief curriculum empowers students to navigate their loss with greater understanding, resilience, and hope by providing a structured and supportive approach to grief.
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Strategies to Build Underdeveloped Skills, Maximize Learning, and Unlock Potential
Are you working with students who:
Many students lack strong executive function, the mental processes that govern planning, self-regulation, and goal-directed behavior. But fear not! 15-Minute Focus: Executive Function was written with the brain in mind and equips you with the knowledge and tools to:
This transformative guide is your resource for:
Stop wondering why your students struggle. Start empowering them to thrive!
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COMING FEBRUARY 13, 2025!
Destiny Davis carries more than just schoolbooks in her backpack. Her constant companion, Anxiety, makes everyday tasks feel impossibly hard. But when a big class project sends Destiny into a full-blown spiral, her dad steps in with a surprising solution – and a reminder that even the toughest challenges can be faced head on.
This heartwarming story will help kids:
With relatable characters and practical advice, Hello, Anxiety empowers children to face their fears and say:
I know this might be tough, AND…
I know I can get through it.
I can use my whole, wise brain.
I’ve got this. I can do it!
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El tiempo de pantalla no es para siempre
Children learn boundaries and safety when using screens, and fun things to do when screens are off.
As important as screens are in our lives, we all need to unplug, especially children. This reassuring English-Spanish bilingual picture book offers children and families a starting point for limiting screen time and making the most of the time you have with your screens and without.
While screens are needed for learning and can be helpful and fun, they are not intended for use all the time. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends consistent limits on screen time for children, and adults should take steps to ensure online safety for kids. With straightforward suggestions, children will learn valuable information about online safety, setting healthy screen-time boundaries, and the importance of screen-free time.
With her trademark mix of empathy and encouragement, author Elizabeth Verdick offers appealing and healthy alternatives to using screens, as well as ways to stay safe and happy when online. Illustrator Marieka Heinlen’s active and vibrant illustrations of young children interacting with their caregivers and families bring the activities and suggestions for screen-free fun to life.
A section for adults at the end of the book in both English and Spanish includes information on the effects of too much screen time and suggestions for establishing screen-time boundaries.
The Handbook for Helping Children and Teens with Depression
Real depression is not a mood that one can just snap out of.
It is a serious mental health problem that affects one in thirty-three children and one in eight adolescents. Battling the Blues explains in understandable terms what depression is and provides practical coping strategies so that children and teens can gain a greater sense of control in their lives. The good news is that depression is a treatable condition with proper medical and psychological interventions. The ideas in this book represent helpful tools that adults and children can readily employ in the treatment process.
This book is divided into two sections:
SECTION ONE
Primarily written for concerned adults, this section is for parents and professional helpers who are trying to encourage and help children through the cloud of depression. Specific tips are provided in this first section that help adults set a healing environment for kids and teens. In addition, a deeper understanding of depression is developed along with resources that can be accessed to overcome depression.
SECTION TWO
Although mainly for kids and teens, parents and helping professionals can discuss and encourage the use of the strategies provided in this section. The strategies are mainly geared for grades three through eight. They can be easily adapted, however, for younger or older children. The strategies are kid friendly and perhaps a bit off the beaten path, but they have proven to be successful. With regular practice, these strategies and techniques can become automatic and effective. As a backdrop to these coping strategies, a clear explanation is given about depression and how it affects young people. Armed with a good understanding of depression, along with practical coping strategies, one’s life can and will improve.
Children cannot learn if they’re afraid to go to school.
Raymond is a 12-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother. No one at school knows much about this quiet and shy boy. Raymond is often used as source of amusement and entertainment by a group of bullies led by two popular boys. Raymond is made fun of and teased on the playground, in the halls, in the classroom–anywhere a teacher is not around or when teachers have their backs turned. One day Raymond is accosted. As he pushes through the crowd of jeering boys, he runs into the street where he is hit by a car. Nobody meant for it to go this far…but it did.
The video then focuses on the reactions of the bullies. Also included are bully-victim facts, suggestions for presentation, and follow-up activities.
Guidelines and Tools for Adding a Tragedy Component to Your Crisis Response Team
The death of a student or staff member can devastate a school and its surrounding community. Are you prepared?
Often these tragedies occur with little or no warning, which means school administrators are left with little or no time to come to terms with the tragedy before they are forced to make decisions that affect the entire community. By developing a tragedy component to your crisis response team, Confronting Death in the School Family will help you respond to any and every tragedy in a consistent and compassionate manner.
Confronting Death in the School Family will provide you with:
The keys to successfully establishing a sound tragedy component to your Crisis Response Team are organization, preparation, and planing. Confronting Death in the School Family will give you the tools necessary to handle the most tragic of situations.
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