Primary School

By Chris SullivanThis STEPs to Better Behaviour series comprises the following three books:Book A: Getting Off to a Good Start introduces the first part of the STEPs approach, which concerns how you can establish a positive behaviour management system at the start of the school year. Central to establishing a positive framework are routines, rules, physical environment, curriculum and establishing positive relationships. Key beliefs in the STEPs philosophy are that a school needs a shared ethos...

Practical Strategies to Encourage Social Thinking and Organization by Michelle Garcia Winner By providing a CD and book now you can print as many strategies as you want onto standard labels and flipbooks and save the formatted stickers in Word for your student. You can still print from formatted strategies in the included book. A popular tool, the previous book included actual stickers, making it expensive to print. This CD/book package is half the first version's price and more versatile! While...

Planning with a Thinking Focusby Michael Pohl This book is a practical guide for teachers at all levels of schooling as they plan and implement learning activities with a thinking focus. It describes processes that can be used to infuse thinking into everyday learning through the application and explicit teaching of various models and strategies. These strategies will see students engaging in a wide range of thinking tasks regardless of whether they are working within defined subject areas or on...

By Lindy Petersen with Mark LeMessurier STOP THINK DO is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. Originally designed for Australian schools, it is now internationally recognised as an invaluable social skills programme and is being used by many schools and CPD groups around the world. STOP...

By Lindy Petersen Stop and Think Learning offers teachers a step-by-step method called STOP THINK DO to motivate children to learn in the classroom. The highly successful method shows children what they can change and then how they can plan what to do to change. Motivation is the key: here is a set of strategies that actively involve the children in a commitment to learn in the busy classroom. The book also describes the STOP THINK DO method for training social skills and improving relationships...

By Lindy Petersen with Phil Lewis STOP THINK DO is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. Originally designed for Australian schools, it is now internationally recognised as an invaluable social skills programme and is being used by many schools and CPD groups around the world. STOP THINK DO...

By Lindy Petersen with Allyson Adderley STOP THINK DO is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. Originally designed for Australian schools, it is now internationally recognised as an invaluable social skills programme and is being used by many schools and CPD groups around the world. STOP...

By Lindy Petersen with Allyson Adderley STOP THINK DO is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. Originally designed for Australian schools, it is now internationally recognised as an invaluable social skills programme and is being used by many schools and CPD groups around the world. STOP...

Developing, Infusing and Sustaining the Habits of Mind for a More Thoughtful ClassroomBy James AndersonForward by Art Costa and Bena KallickBeginning your learning journey with Habits of Mind is easy. Knowing where the next steps are can be elusive, and more challenging. In these pages you’ll find practical guidance that takes you beyond introducing the Habits of Mind and helps you build deep understandings so you can succeed in developing, infusing, leading and sustaining the Habits of Mind in...

By Julie Mendenhall This book can be used as a guided tool to be read with children. It provides an entertaining, endearing lesson for young people about their brain and how they can better use it to make good decisions.First, Sunny teaches the importance of our brain and how it works. Then, Sunny teaches two very simple-to-use techniques that children can use to help them better self-regulate their behavior.1. CHECK: Learn when I need to change my behavior.2. CRISSCROSS and SHIFT: Learn how to...

By Julie Mendenhall Here is a book to be used as a guided tool. It helps children understand the difference between tattling and telling but more importantly, it brings an awareness of the sensitive subject of abuse. This subject is not easily approached but with the main character, Sunny, it can support an adult in delivering a CRUCIAL MESSAGE. This resource includes an appendix with discussion questions and tips for parents. Age Suitability: 4-9

Author: Janet BruceAlthough developing appropriate social skills is a challenging task for any child, every teacher knows that many children in the classroom require further support and instruction. This Superb Social Skills in the Classroom series aims to encourage critical social skills in children from the ages of 5 to 10 years. Its activities provide children with structured learning opportunities to play and practice social skills they have learnt. Topics covered include friendship,...

Author: Janet BruceAlthough developing appropriate social skills is a challenging task for any child, every teacher knows that many children in the classroom require further support and instruction. This Superb Social Skills in the Classroom series aims to encourage critical social skills in children from the ages of 5 to 10 years. Its activities provide children with structured learning opportunities to play and practice social skills they have learnt. Topics covered include friendship,...

Author: Janet BruceAlthough developing appropriate social skills is a challenging task for any child, every teacher knows that many children in the classroom require further support and instruction. This Superb Social Skills in the Classroom series aims to encourage critical social skills in children from the ages of 5 to 10 years. Its activities provide children with structured learning opportunities to play and practice social skills they have learnt. Topics covered include friendship,...

Written by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Focus Tron to the Rescue! introduces readers to the Thinkable Focus Tron. Wherever they are — at school, or home, in the community — Focus Tron helps Social Town citizens remember to use their focusing powers to stay connected to what they’re doing or what others are talking about. In the story, Sarah periodically get visits from the Unthinkable Brain Eater who distracts her thoughts away from her classwork,...

Written by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Kool Q. Cumber to the Rescue! introduces readers to the Thinkable Kool Q. Cumber (we call him Kool, for short!). Kool helps Social Town citizens stay calm when problems happen, and use strategies they learn to figure out the size of a problem and the expected reaction size. In the story, Aiden and his classmates present science projects, but Aiden’s friend Sam becomes frustrated with problems throughout the day. As...

By Michelle Garcia Winner Thinkables are being seen around Social Town everywhere now as children are learning to use their superflexible thinking strategies to defeat their Unthinkables. Each Thinkable character is a counterpart to the Unthinkable character/challenge, and adds to a person’s superflexible powers to defeat the Unthinkables. Our Thinkables represent the expected thinking and behaviours that kids learn through the use of our related curriculum. A great visual tool for use in the...

Superflex® Bingo is a flexible, fun, and educational game! It enables students to practice identifying Social Thinking concepts and Superflex characters to strengthen their self-regulation and superflexible thinking powers. This is not a stand-alone teaching tool, do not introduce this game until your students have completed You Are A Social Detective and the Superflex Curriculum Unlike traditional Bingo games where players match pictures or numbers, Superflex Bingo engages players in “thinking...

By Michelle Garcia Winner These two Superflex posters are the perfect visual tools to guide students in using their superflexible social thinking and learning the concepts and strategies taught in the Superflex: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum. The Unthinkables represent some of the many social learning challenges our kids face with the poster depicting the 14 original characters, their names and anti-social powers. The characters on the companion poster, Superflex Thinkables, represent...

Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela CrookeUse these colourful Superflex stickers at home, at school, or on the go! These stickers are to be used in association with lessons from Superflex Curriculum Superflex and the Team of Thinkables are within each of us and give us powers to figure out how to adapt our behavior based on what’s going on in different situations. Use Thinkable Stickers to: Encourage a social learner to call on the powers of their SuperflexEach Thinkable adds to one’s...