APS SSW

This is a 8 session group curriculum. It is social emotional skill building group and you have the option of picking and choosing activities that work for your setting and time frame. The WORK formula means to have activities that warm up the students, orient them to the goal, rehearse or reflect on the skills and keys to getting it moving.

This is a rubric that helps you, the social worker or counselor, quantify how intervention services are progressing and how the student is responding to intervention. There are four key areas: Engagement, Participation, Attitude and Goal Progress and there are four ways to rate these key areas: Independent to Not independent at all. The rubric will provide defintions for each area. After each session, I use the Service Log to track how it went and then when it is progress report time, I just

In schools, the counselor or social worker needs ideas for teaching regulation skills, learning how to manage moods. This educational curriculum will cover activities that Warm them up, Orient them to the goal, Rehearse the goal and have Keys to effectiveness. There are activities for each lesson and this curriculum can range from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. This is a social emotional curriculum.

This is a cute activity using the Inside Out Characters. The kids are asked to pick two coping skills for each feeling. The skills are break ideas, how to interrupt the feeling or how to manage. I created this activity in google slides, so that the kids could drag over, sadly this can't be done in a PDF.

This is an emotional/regulation skill building group curriculum. It is focused on regulation skills and the curriculum has warm up activities, orientation activities, and rehearse activities. The goal of this curriculum is to help a student manage their moods and thoughts.

This is a curriculum for new student groups, it can be used for students who transition from 5th to 6th, or from 8th to 9th or for any small group of new students who move in or transfer over. It follows a group formula to W.O.R.K. Warm them up, Orient them to the goal, Rehearse the goal and Keep it moving!

This is 3 activities to use with kids after you read the book "The Way I feel" by Janan Cain. Match feelings, identify hard or easy to have and finds ways to cope. When on Google slides, the students were able to move, on a PDF, they don't move, but still able to use on zoom (use the annotate button to make lines!)

This is an activity to go along with a book (“The Way I Feel” book by Janan Cain). This is geared towards young elementary students (grades K-2) but can also be fun for upper elementary students. Learning how to identify feelings is critical to help students. And nothing is better than sneaky learning, GAMES and ACTIVITIES! This activity uses a book, an hands on activity to help with relating to feelings and working together! You can use this in a small group, in a 1:1 setting and even push-in a

This is an activity that helps students learn about what are friendship characteristics and what may need a limit.  Before we do the activity, we talk about sorting “thumbs up” vs “stop”.  I found it was helpful to teach setting limits.  The goal is to sort: Kind Friend (thumbs up) or does a limit need to be set? Cut out the title card (has pictures) and the sorting cards (the prompts).  I used a laminator to help with durability.  As you set up this activity, talk about setting limits, rehearsi

This is a game I played with high schoolers! We talked about the ways to find your way when you are working towards a goal. You tell them the rules, give them the maze page and have them figure out the way to go (you have the path)! It can be fun and frustrated, wrap it up with a discussion on how to figure things out in the classroom, with help or on their own!

Learning how to regulate is critical to help students.   And nothing is better than sneaky learning, GAMES and ACTIVITIES! One way to build on learning is to use the Formula "I feel....I Need" with different ways to talk, practice and rehearse. This one is about cups of feelings and cooling off with marshmallow strategies! Relating is an innate skill that follows Regulation.  How about if we do both, promote positive relating with learning strong regulation. When students feel stress, they ma

This bingo is a great activity for teens, it provides all materials (24 cards, calling cards, and instructions). It is not your typical bingo, it has 4 sections and covers unhealthy vs healthy coping skills, feelings that are connected to anger and triggers to anger. There are discussion prompts included. It is a great way to prompt rehearsing coping skills while having some fun. You only need to be creative with tokens and chips!

These are activities for students to do after they read Enemy Pie by Derek Munson and The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania of Jordan Al Abdullah. There are 8 pages with different activities. When I created this google slide, I was able to create drags for the students (Look it up on youtube, easy to and fun for the kids). This does not exist with the PDF.

I love activities, I work with students in groups and 1:1 and having an activity to pull out is helpful. This is a prompting activity that you can use face to face or virtually. It starts the conversation of ripple effect! DIM stands for Distract, Interrupt and Manage - this is an acronym that I use to explain to students how to calm the brain done when upset. Distract the stress, Interrupt the stress and Manage! You can read the book to start!

Our feelings create a roller coaster moment and it is important to use the strategy car to manage the ride! We need to figure out what strategies  can ride in to manage our feelings!  Buckle up, it’s going to be bumpy! PART ONE: There is a lot of creativity in this activity.  I have the students draw their own roller coaster.  Since our feelings make us feel loopy and upside down, I invite them to make it as busy as they want!  Feel free to have them add feeling faces. Or if the group is famili

The popular teen game "have you ever..." is played with coping strategies, this can be done one on one or in a small group. It is a good way for teens and staff to discuss the difference between positive and negative coping skills.

Craft Activity Alert! This is a great way to teach and exploring coping skills with kids. Using colored paper, you will make a garden with your students and then put it on the wall when done! One of the pictures is one that I made with a group of 3 3rd grade girls I love activities! I work with students in small groups and we check in, complete an activity and check out. Have fun while learning!

This is a slide show activity to help groups get to know feelings, triggers to feelings and things that help our feelings! It should take less than 20 minutes to complete and a great way to have students get to know eachother!

An Intervention plan follows a Functional Behavioral Assessment.  An FBA is a well-known and well-researched way to help students with high-risk behaviors and a Behavior Intervention Plan is also a well-known and well-researched plan, you can find a large amount of options for how to complete an FBA and a BIP.     However, I am glad that you chose to learn the BIP that I have been using! I have organized this plan into several main components and a user friendly way to help you, your staff and t

Learning how to take a break is a critical piece of using a break wisely! These slides are based on traffic lights, green is ready to do, yellow is slow down and red is stop. Break cards and visual posters are included! Introduce this strategy when the student is calm, talk about the slides and have at least one rehearsal before you put in place.  It is important to read and review this card regularly, and as you are reading, be sure to add in practice.  It is important that the student unders