When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they grow to become resilient, successful students. This resource provides Educators with ideas for building a growth mindset school culture and highlights the...

When teachers create environments that teach skills rather than punish individual actions, they reduce behavior problems and nurture the growth of all learners. This book expertly guides early childhood teachers to analyze their classroom elements,...

Advancing Differentiation will lead you through the process of creating a thriving, student-centered, 21st-century classroom. Since its initial publication, the book’s materials have undergone rigorous testing and refinement in classrooms all over...

Using the research-based strategies in this book, middle school Educators can empower their students to create a school climate of respect, acceptance, and kindness. Included are 48 character building lessons that take about 30 minutes each. Also...

This book contains 60 activity-based lessons that teach children how to rebound and recover from difficult or challenging situations. The lessons are suitable for use in small-group counseling or during classroom guidance sessions. The seven topic areas...

Self-regulation, an executive functioning skill, describes the ways that students focus attention on achieving success. Self-regulated learners find personal value in learning, develop effective study habits, welcome challenges, seek help, and use...

Grab Bag Guidance and Other Small-Group Counseling Topics for Middle School Students is a compilation of two types of small-group counseling programs: specific groups focusing on a single topic and Grab Bag Guidance groups that focus on several...

Social skills constitute more than a time-honored list of modern manners; they are ways to thrive in today’s world. In this book teens consider social life and consciousness through interactive games, introspective drawing and writing, mock videos,...

One important task of teens is learning practical life skills, critical for personal and professional success. Research indicates that life skills intelligence is as important as a teen’s intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional intelligence. Teens...

Building Resiliency is a non-thematic small-group counseling approach that addresses the fact that all children, regardless of their particular problems, need to be resilient. Each of the book’s eight research-based topics is discussed in four to...

This practical handbook helps adults to understand, manage and reflect constructively on children’s anger. Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, it is designed to foster successful anger management strategies for children aged...

Anger is an emotion that is felt by everyone. The purpose of this activity book is to offer hands on activities that can teach a child how to channel anger in productive and non-destructive ways. It is important to teach children it’s okay to feel...