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Preorder Review: September 5-11, 2024
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Empowering Young Minds to Manage Emotions, Navigate Conflict, and Embrace Growth
In today’s world, resilience is a critical skill for children to thrive. Growing Up Strong offers a transformative approach to equipping kids with the emotional intelligence they need to become confident, capable adults.
This comprehensive guide empowers you to help children:
This book is for you if:
Growing Up Strong provides:
Preorder Review: September 19-25, 2024
Release Review: September 26 – October 2, 2024
Sign Up Deadline: September 11, 2024
COMING SEPTEMBER 2024!
Reignite Your Passion, Deepen Your Calling, and Lead Positive Change
You’re not alone. The weight of the world has left many educators feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and questioning their purpose.
In this empowering book you will:
Written by a fellow educator who understands the unique challenges you face; this is more than just a book – it’s a guided retreat designed to fit your busy schedule. Each concise chapter offers actionable steps and thought-provoking exercises you can complete in short bursts, making it easy to integrate renewal into your daily routine.
Don’t let the fire dim. Reclaim your passion, purpose, and position as a transformative educator!
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COMING OCTOBER 24, 2024
Identifying Triggers, Developing Coping Strategies, and Communicating Effectively
Are you looking for an engaging tool to help your students learn about and manage their big emotions?
This workbook will equip you with everything you need to do just that! Teach social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in thirty-minute lessons for small group or classroom instruction. It’s flexible, adaptable, and requires minimal prep time – no extra materials required!
Designed to build strong emotional intelligence, this workbook is rooted in research-backed strategies to help children become grounded, more confident, and better equipped to navigate big emotions.
Inside, you’ll find:
Topics include Upstairs and Downstairs Brain, stress busting, braving big emotions, regulation and co-regulation, self-compassion, mending mistakes, and more. The lessons and questions in this thoughtfully crafted resource are designed to help students explore their emotions, learn calming techniques, and develop tools they can use to effectively communicate big feelings in healthy ways.
This workbook’s engaging design allows students to connect with characters and stories, while also having fun and building community with their peers. Use the 30-Minute Groups: Managing Big Emotions workbook to help provide a strong foundation for students to become more emotionally aware and resilient learners!
COMING JANUARY 2025!
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 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 workbook to help provide a strong foundation for students to become more connected and resilient learners!
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