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The Test Prep Game Show will teach your testing tips and ways to manage stress around taking tests. . Now includes both Google Slides™ and Power Point Presentation files, which allows you to use for SEL distance learning, teletherapy, virtual counseling groups, school counseling guidance and in person lessons. Ways to Use ☀️Distance Learning Ready ☀️ This FUN, interactive guidance lesson & game can be used as a stand-alone classroom guidance lesson about Test Preparation, as an introduction to testing strategies, or as a review and/or supplement to your student academic success lessons. ☀️ Great for your small groups. ☀️ Includes Top 10 Test Taking Tips handout, too! What's Super Sweet About this Testing Prep Strategies Lesson? ❤️ The Game Show format is hands-on and experiential, with many of the challenges inviting students to role play. ❤️ This test prep classroom game encourages reflective thinking, and is designed for students to show off and build on their smarts in different ways. ❤️ Plus, the questions and challenges are 100% customizable so if you like, you can edit them to better fit your specific needs. ❤️ It's low-prep, perfect for all you busy school counselors and teachers! ❤️ Lesson Plan with ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors is also included! The Game Show Categories Include: ACT IT OUT: teams act out / role play the challenge prompt. TRUE or FALSE: teams decide whether the statement is true or false. SKETCH IT: teams quickly draw their answers. IMAGINE IF: teams answer "Imagine If" questions, using their imagination & problem solving skills. RISK: teams take a "risk" because the type of question and/or challenge is not revealed until chosen. What's needed to play the Game Show? ✔ It is best used with a Promethean White Board or projector that that can be hooked up to your computer; it's formatted as a power point presentation and now google slides™, too! ✔If using for distance learning, all players need internet access. ✔ Want to go screen-free? No problem! This Game Show also comes with printable task cards with the same prompts as the Game Show challenges. Provides lots of flexibility.... Given that the GAME SHOW takes 40-60 minutes to play, and sometimes we just don't have that much time....or that the GAME SHOW works best projected on a large screen, and sometimes the technology breaks down....or that there are days when we walk into the classroom and just know that a whole classroom game is not going to fly that day....and sometimes students need more quiet, reflective activities......I have included more than 6 additional formats that do not require the use of the power point presentation or google slides™. (Note: the additional activities do involve some printing prep-work.) ASCA MINDSETS & BEHAVIORS covered: * M 1. Belief in development of whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well - being * M 3. Sense of belonging in the school environment * M 6. Positive attitude toward work and learning * B-LS 2. Demonstrate creativity * B-SS 2. Create positive and supportive relationships with other students * B-SS 6. Use effective collaboration and cooperation skills

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This FREE Social Emotional Learning Daily Check-In Journal Sample Pack is designed to not only teach your students SEL skills, but also helps you to check in on your students' social and emotional wellness. Great for morning meetings, journal writing, and school counseling interventions. This resour...

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This Anger Management Poster was designed to remind students of different ways they can deal with anger in developmentally appropriate healthy and safe ways. What's Included: ☀️3 different printing options: color with frame, color without frame, and black and white. ☀️ 2 different styles ☀️ Files sized for 8.5"X 11" and 18"X24" printing. ☀️ Make Your Own Anger Management Collage Poster Ways to Use This Resource ✔ Hang poster up in your classroom or hallway bulletin board to remind students of healthy and safe ways to deal with anger. ✔ Use the Make Your Own Anger Management Collage Poster during SEL lessons about Feelings or during small groups and individual interventions when you'd like to focus on coping strategies and self-regulation.

Get Real with Boys In Mind was designed for individual counseling with boys and boys groups, now in both printable and DIGITAL formats (Google Slides™ and digital spinners) for distance learning. Topics cover boys self-esteem, friendship, social emotional literacy, relationship & social skills, media literacy, the "Boy Code," ideas about masculinity & gender, hope, optimism, and best possible future self. Although this game was designed with Boys In Mind, it works for all genders and girls groups & individual counseling with girls too! Perfect for rapport building, as an icebreaker, lunch bunches, integrated into your already existing small group counseling with boys curriculum, and game to play on the fly when students visit you. Can also be used in the classroom as social emotional journal writing prompts too! The Conversations Challenges focus on building social emotional skills, relationship-building, emotional literacy, media literacy, friendship, the normalizing of feelings, and self-esteem, in fun, non-threatening, & shame-free ways. The 180 Conversation Starters and Challenges are grouped into recommended elementary and middle school grades from 2nd-8th and by types of questions. It works stand alone. And because it is COLOR CODED, Get Real With Boys In Mind can be used with popular store bought games! Also included are 3 SETS of awesomely designed labels for JENGA®. That is 162 labels to use with JEGNA ®! Just print them out and choose which ones you want to use! (The labels to use with Jenga ® labels are also colored coded, grouped by age & types of conversation challenges.) The Conversation Starter Challenges are divided into 6 categories: TOP 3, Would You Rather, True or False, What If, Two Truths & A Lie, and Act Out. There are games within the game! On a more serious note: Get Real with Boys was designed with the following In Mind: **How can boys can be strong and emotionally sensitive without being shamed? **How can we create alternatives to common gendered stereotypes in effort to reframe and re-signify what masculinity means? **How is being vulnerable brave? **How can boys develop stronger connections with others, given that we are wired for it? **How can we support young people to build media literacy skills? **How can we invite young people to join us in this conversation in a way that is developmentally appropriate and FUN?! Ink-Friendly set of cards included as well! You may also like: Get Real With Girls In Mind:Self Esteem & Empowerment Game for Counseling Girls You can purchase the fun Jenga® games at your local retail & toy stores, or go online to Amazon.com, Hasbro.com, Target.com, Walmart.com, Toysrus.com and many others to find JENGA®. All rights reserved.TM and ® signify US Trademarks; Pokonobe Associates owns the trademark to JENGA®.

Get Real with Boys In Mind was designed for individual counseling with boys and boys groups, now in both printable and DIGITAL formats (Google Slides™ and digital spinners) for distance learning. Topics cover boys self-esteem, friendship, social emotional literacy, relationship & social skills, media literacy, the "Boy Code," ideas about masculinity & gender, hope, optimism, and best possible future self. Although this game was designed with Boys In Mind, it works for all genders and girls groups & individual counseling with girls too! Perfect for rapport building, as an icebreaker, lunch bunches, integrated into your already existing small group counseling with boys curriculum, and game to play on the fly when students visit you. Can also be used in the classroom as social emotional journal writing prompts too! The Conversations Challenges focus on building social emotional skills, relationship-building, emotional literacy, media literacy, friendship, the normalizing of feelings, and self-esteem, in fun, non-threatening, & shame-free ways. The 180 Conversation Starters and Challenges are grouped into recommended elementary and middle school grades from 2nd-8th and by types of questions. It works stand alone. And because it is COLOR CODED, Get Real With Boys In Mind can be used with popular store bought games! Also included are 3 SETS of awesomely designed labels for JENGA®. That is 162 labels to use with JEGNA ®! Just print them out and choose which ones you want to use! (The labels to use with Jenga ® labels are also colored coded, grouped by age & types of conversation challenges.) The Conversation Starter Challenges are divided into 6 categories: TOP 3, Would You Rather, True or False, What If, Two Truths & A Lie, and Act Out. There are games within the game! On a more serious note: Get Real with Boys was designed with the following In Mind: **How can boys can be strong and emotionally sensitive without being shamed? **How can we create alternatives to common gendered stereotypes in effort to reframe and re-signify what masculinity means? **How is being vulnerable brave? **How can boys develop stronger connections with others, given that we are wired for it? **How can we support young people to build media literacy skills? **How can we invite young people to join us in this conversation in a way that is developmentally appropriate and FUN?! Ink-Friendly set of cards included as well! You may also like: Get Real With Girls In Mind:Self Esteem & Empowerment Game for Counseling Girls You can purchase the fun Jenga® games at your local retail & toy stores, or go online to Amazon.com, Hasbro.com, Target.com, Walmart.com, Toysrus.com and many others to find JENGA®. All rights reserved.TM and ® signify US Trademarks; Pokonobe Associates owns the trademark to JENGA®.

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Running school counseling small groups? Check out these tips for successful and effective small group counseling.

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Get Real with Boys In Mind was designed for individual counseling with boys and boys groups, now in both printable and DIGITAL formats (Google Slides™ and digital spinners) for distance learning. Topics cover boys self-esteem, friendship, social emotional literacy, relationship & social skills, media literacy, the "Boy Code," ideas about masculinity & gender, hope, optimism, and best possible future self. Although this game was designed with Boys In Mind, it works for all genders and girls groups & individual counseling with girls too! Perfect for rapport building, as an icebreaker, lunch bunches, integrated into your already existing small group counseling with boys curriculum, and game to play on the fly when students visit you. Can also be used in the classroom as social emotional journal writing prompts too! The Conversations Challenges focus on building social emotional skills, relationship-building, emotional literacy, media literacy, friendship, the normalizing of feelings, and self-esteem, in fun, non-threatening, & shame-free ways. The 180 Conversation Starters and Challenges are grouped into recommended elementary and middle school grades from 2nd-8th and by types of questions. It works stand alone. And because it is COLOR CODED, Get Real With Boys In Mind can be used with popular store bought games! Also included are 3 SETS of awesomely designed labels for JENGA®. That is 162 labels to use with JEGNA ®! Just print them out and choose which ones you want to use! (The labels to use with Jenga ® labels are also colored coded, grouped by age & types of conversation challenges.) The Conversation Starter Challenges are divided into 6 categories: TOP 3, Would You Rather, True or False, What If, Two Truths & A Lie, and Act Out. There are games within the game! On a more serious note: Get Real with Boys was designed with the following In Mind: **How can boys can be strong and emotionally sensitive without being shamed? **How can we create alternatives to common gendered stereotypes in effort to reframe and re-signify what masculinity means? **How is being vulnerable brave? **How can boys develop stronger connections with others, given that we are wired for it? **How can we support young people to build media literacy skills? **How can we invite young people to join us in this conversation in a way that is developmentally appropriate and FUN?! Ink-Friendly set of cards included as well! You may also like: Get Real With Girls In Mind:Self Esteem & Empowerment Game for Counseling Girls You can purchase the fun Jenga® games at your local retail & toy stores, or go online to Amazon.com, Hasbro.com, Target.com, Walmart.com, Toysrus.com and many others to find JENGA®. All rights reserved.TM and ® signify US Trademarks; Pokonobe Associates owns the trademark to JENGA®.

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