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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 17 (Grade K Counselor): My First School Goal

Teach Kindergarten goal setting with small school goals, strengths, listening, responsibility, and one-step practice for classroom success.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade K Counselor): How to Join Play

Teach Kindergarten joining play with friendly phrases, listening, waiting, choosing another activity, and adult help for respectful peer play.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade K Counselor): Listening to a Friend

Teach Kindergarten friendship listening with partner sharing, turn-taking, repeat-back responses, kind listening, and respectful peer interaction.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade K Counselor): Stop, Think, Choose

Teach Kindergarten problem-solving with stop-think-choose steps, puppet conflicts, safe solutions, respectful words, and adult help.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade K Counselor): Small Problems and Big Problems

Teach Kindergarten small and big problems with problem-size sorting, trusted adults, help-seeking words, and safe next steps.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade K Counselor): Mistakes Help Us Learn

Teach Kindergarten growth mindset with mistakes, try-again words, help-seeking, personal strengths, and still-learning practice.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade K Counselor): Feelings in My Body

Teach Kindergarten body clues with feeling words, body outlines, coping tools, trusted adults, and help-seeking for big emotions.

Blog

AI Fact-Check Studios: Teaching Students to Challenge Machine Answers

Teach AI Fact-Check Studios where students verify machine answers, check sources, spot bias, and revise responses with evidence.

Parent Tips Featured

Parent Tips: The After-School Crash—Helping Kids Reset Before Homework Starts

Help parents manage the after-school crash with a 20-minute reset using snack, movement, quiet, and connection before homework starts.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 10 (Grade K Counselor): Name the Feeling, Choose a Tool

Teach Kindergarten feelings toolbox skills with emotion words, body clues, calming tools, breathing, breaks, and help-seeking practice.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade K Counselor): We All Belong in Our Class

Build Kindergarten belonging with class puzzles, handprints, kind words, helpful actions, listening, and welcoming choices.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade K Counselor): Asking for Help

Teach Kindergarten help-seeking with trusted adults, big feelings, safety scenarios, and simple phrases for asking for help.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade K Counselor): Calming My Body

Teach Kindergarten calming tools with breathing, counting, quiet breaks, body clues, big feelings, and help-seeking practice.

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6-8 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8): Build a Tiny House - Area, Volume, and Smart Design in a Space-Saving Challenge

Design a tiny house challenge for grades 6-8 with area, volume, scale layouts, budgets, constraints, and math-based design reasoning.

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K-2 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades K-2): Kindness Mailbox Project - Opinion Writing, Community Building, and SEL Connections

Build K-2 classroom community with a Kindness Mailbox project that blends opinion writing, kind messages, reasons, and SEL.

The Admin Angle Featured

The Admin Angle: Smarter Student Placement

Build balanced class placements that account for academics, behavior, peer dynamics, services, teacher fit, and teacher workload.

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Civic Action Sprints: Solving One Local Problem in Two Weeks

Teach Civic Action Sprints that help students research local problems, gather evidence, write proposals, and practice real civic problem-solving.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 6 (Grade K Counselor): Taking Turns and Sharing

Teach Kindergarten sharing and turn-taking with waiting practice, small problem solving, safe choices, and friendly phrases for asking turns.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade K Counselor): Personal Space Bubbles

Teach Kindergarten personal space with space bubbles, ask-first language, safe greetings, line safety, sharing, turn-taking, and safe choices.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade K Counselor): Kind Words and Helpful Actions

Teach Kindergarten kindness with friendly words, helpful actions, friendship stories, kind/unkind sorting, and classroom belonging.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade K Counselor): Listening Like a Learner

Teach Kindergarten listening skills with eyes, ears, body, and brain, two-step directions, story practice, and safe school choices.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade K Counselor): Feelings Have Names

Teach Kindergarten feelings with emotion words, face clues, body clues, puppets, mirrors, story characters, and “I feel” practice.

Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade K Counselor): Meet the School Counselor

Introduce Kindergarten students to the school counselor, trusted adults, belonging, help-seeking, and school-ready listening routines.

Parent Tips

Parent Tips: What Teachers Wish Parents Knew in the First Month of School

Help parents navigate the first month of school with teacher insight on routines, grades, adjustment, communication, and when to speak up.

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9-12 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades 9-12): Fashion Physics - Engineering Wearable Tech with Sensors, Circuits, and Smart Design

Design a wearable tech challenge for grades 9-12 with sensors, circuits, energy transfer, prototypes, testing, trade-offs, and design defense.