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Ages: 5-18Format: Cards 4x6Published: 2021Authors: Leah Kuypers Elizabeth SautterWhether you’ve been teaching The Zones of Regulation curriculum for years or just hearing about it for the first time, these regulation strategy card decks for two different developmental age groups — children ages 5-10 and tweens and teens ages 11-18 — are a powerful addition to your social emotional learning and teaching toolkit. These decks are meant to be used in tandem with The Zones curriculum and pair well...

Ages: 10+Format: Bundle with GamesPublished: 2016Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke, Dominique Baudry, Linda K. MurphyThe social mind is dynamic. It changes and evolves continuously throughout the tween and teen years as kids begin to forge a stronger sense of self. But as they age, the social world also expands in its complexity. Expectations for how a child makes sense of the social world, socially responds, and behaves seem to suddenly shift and transform as more sophisticated...

by Michael Pohl How can you have fun and exercise your brain at the same time? Solving puzzles - that's how! Quizzles are designed to provide the stimulation required by the brain to think better. They challenge and extend the way you think, in a way that is both relaxing and enjoyable. While you work through the puzzles you are actually training your brain to work quicker and better.Other Quizzle BooksQuizzles: 200 Puzzles with a PurposeMore Quizzles: 200 Puzzles with a PurposeAge Suitability:...

Effective Strategies for Identifying Risk & Providing SupportBy Tina Rae & Jody WalsheKey strategies for identifying & supporting vulnerable young people.This practical, user-friendly resource is full of evidence-based strategies to support staff in identifying, preventing and supporting those at risk from self-harm and suicide in schools. The toolkit can be used on a whole school, small group or individual basis to develop preventative and supportive approaches and raise awareness...

Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)By Tina RaeA practical user-friendly toolkit of resources providing an overview of EBSA and strategies to support return to school, with a focus on transition from primary to secondary school and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.Shortlisted for the nasen Awards 2022 Award for PublicationChildren and young people miss school for a variety of reasons – as a response to personal, family,...

60 user-friendly cards with practical ideas and strategies to promote and develop children’s attendanceBy Tina RaeA companion to Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally based School Avoidance (EBSA).Children and young people miss school for a variety of reasons – as a response to personal, family, school or wider environmental issues. Emotionally Based School Avoidance or Refusal (EBSA) is a pattern of absence where reluctance, or refusal, to attend or stay in...

Understanding & Supporting Emotionally Based School Avoidance Workbook, Discussion Cards and My Attendance Journal Set of 33 user-friendly resources to support Emotionally Based School Avoidance including Nasen Awards 2022 Shortlisted workbook Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally based School AvoidanceBy Tina RaeNow includes a FREE training webinar from Tina designed to provide an overview of the problems associated with school avoidance/phobia and also...

Understanding & Supporting Emotionally Based School Avoidance Workbook and Discussion Cards Set of 22 user-friendly resources to support Emotionally Based School Avoidance including Nasen Awards 2022 Shortlisted workbook Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally based School AvoidanceAuthor: Tina RaeChildren and young people miss school for a variety of reasons – as a response to personal, family, school or wider environmental issues. Emotionally Based...

These visual supports encourage the active use of 10 Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts that lay the foundation for social learning, which are fundamental to the social experience and are relevant across languages, cultures, and ages (starting at age 4). While they are a small set of our broader teaching platform, they are an important place to begin an individual’s discovery into their own social-emotional learning as well as discovering the social world that surrounds them, regardless of...

Ages: 4-7Format: PaperbackPublished: 2016Authors: Ryan Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia WinnerNow for the first time in one great-value bundle! We Thinkers! is the premier social emotional learning series from Social Thinking® for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop foundational social competencies. These practice-proven, evidence-based materials are designed for both typically developing children and those with social learning challenges to strengthen social...

These five storybooks can be purchased here, or as part of the larger curriculum set that they were written to accompany, We Thinkers! Volume 1 Deluxe Package. If you have already purchased the Deluxe Package, there is no need to buy this set unless you want an extra set of the storybooks!Through the adventures of four likable characters, Evan, Ellie, Jesse, and Molly, children are introduced to and learn about complex social concepts in a language they can understand. Readers journey along with...

By Ryan Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia Winner The We Thinkers! series helps children build foundational social competencies and essential life skills through stories, lessons, and play activities. The teachings help kids better understand themselves and others, develop self-awareness, perspective taking, social problem solving, and supports students’ social-emotional learning, relationship building, classroom learning, and academic performance. The material is...

These five storybooks can be purchased here, or as part of the larger curriculum set that they were written to accompany, We Thinkers! Volume 2 Deluxe Package. If you have already purchased the Deluxe Package, there is no need to buy this set unless you want an extra set of the storybooks!In Volume 1 Social Explorers of our Social Thinking early learner series, children were introduced to four likeable characters, Evan, Ellie, Jesse and Molly, and followed along in their adventures as they...

By Ryan E. Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia WinnerThe We Thinkers! series helps children build fundamental social competencies and improve their social and academic performance. Teachers, clinicians, and parents give it rave reviews!We Thinkers! Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off. The concepts across the series are sequential. It's important to use Volume 1 before moving on to Volume 2.In Volume 2 Social Problem Solvers we explore how to figure out the social...

A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with AnxietyWritten and Illustrated by Kari Dunn Buron Worry and anxiety are on an upswing. In fact, anxiety is the most frequent of all mental disorders in children. High levels of stress and big emotions related to social situations, sensory issues, or general frustration are common in children who live with anxiety. Such stress can lead to a loss of control, resulting in aggressive behaviour, such as screaming, throwing things or even hurting someone....

50 flash cards to stimulate discussion and sharing of how one feels and whyBy Pip Wilson & Ian LongCovering a huge range of emotions, each image can be interpreted differently by each individual leading to endless possibilities for discussing feelings and emotions. A ‘cool’ resource for use with all ages.All ages50 cards, 90 x 130mm.Teacher notes for guidance with suggested activities included.

Over 50 individual blobs on one giant poster!Set of 5 postersBy Pip Wilson and Ian LongThis extraordinary resource is designed to stimulate discussion and sharing of HOW one feels and WHY.Put it up in the staffroom and watch your colleagues gravitate towards it, which Blob do they feel like today? A great way to promote team communication, understanding and empathy.Put one up in the classroom and see how children and young people gather round, work out which Blob they feel like and really get...

50 flash cards and 5 A3 posters to stimulate discussion and sharing of how one feels and whyBy Pip Wilson and Ian LongThis value set contains both Which Blob do you Feel Like Today? resources:Includes: Which Blob Do You Feel Like Today? PostersOver 50 individual blobs on one giant poster! Which Blob Do You Feel Like Today? CardsCovering a huge range of emotions, each image can be interpreted differently by each individual leading to endless possibilities for discussing feelings and emotions. A...

By Susan BowmanIn this full-colour illustrated book children describe their families including what they like to do together. The wonderfully illustrated drawings bring out the uniqueness of each family. Children are encouraged to describe their own families and create some fun activities they can do together. Some of the families described include:parent in the militarysingle parentincarcerated parentadoptive parentsfoster parentsmulticultural parentssame gender parentsterminally ill parentsand...

Written by Kristen Wilson and Elizabeth Sautterr Illustrated by Kyle Richardson Also available: Whole Body Listening Larry at SchoolBeing a good listener means much more than just hearing what is said with the ears. It is important to break down ALL of the components of listening, to teach your kids to listen with their eyes, hands, feet, brains, hearts - indeed their whole bodies! Designed to stimulate discussions at home and at school about how we listen as a member of our family and in...