Education/Classroom
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Deborah Plummer, Jane Serrurier Social Skills Games For Children
Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, this practical handbook is designed to foster successful social strategies for children aged 5-12 The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. Deborah Plummer addresses issues that might arise when supporting children with a range of communication differences, including children with learning differences, and offers a variety of cognitive and behavioural strategies to help children to reinforce the skills explored in the games.
$51.95
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Social Skills Comics for Teens
Real Teens Show How to Behave in Real Social Situations. (Spiral Bound). This fun-filled book is filled with comics that are designed to show teenagers the expected ways to behave in typical social situations. Each situation is depicted in a Wrong Way scenario and a Right Way scenario. Detailed photos prompt teens to take a closer look at body language and non-verbal cues. Interactive activities encourage teens to apply the scenarios to situations they have encountered in their lives. Ages 12-18.
$43.95
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Natasha Daniels Social Skills Activities for Kids: 50 Fun Exercises for Making Friends, Talking and Listening, and Understanding Social Rules
Help kids thrive in the new school year with activities for developing essential social skills—for ages 6 to 10 What are the Dos and Don'ts for making and keeping friends? How can you decode body language clues? What's the best way to keep a conversation going? Just like learning multiplication tables, social skills don't come naturally—everyone has to learn them. Luckily, Social Skills Activities for Kids makes mastering social skills accessible for kids with 50 awesome activities. Whether you're planning kids' summer activities or looking for ways to keep the fun going all year round, this book is the perfect asset for your child. This social skills book for kids is a great summer workbook for boosting skills between school years: Life lessons—From learning about compromise to practicing good table manners, these activities help kids develop and use essential people skills. 50 interactive activities—Games, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and reflective prompts keep kids learning and engaged in a variety of ways. Real scenarios—Kids will explore important topics like bullying, using social media, setting and respecting boundaries, and more. Give children the confidence to successfully navigate social situations at home, school, and the world in between.
$26.99
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Social Situations Cards
This card deck is designed for people who want to explore issues common to challenging social situations. These hypothetical situations might be familiar or unfamiliar, realistic or far-fetched, but all scenarios will provide learning opportunities when, at the conclusion, they ask the question, What do you do? Situations include a variety of people -ranging from neighbors and acquaintances to family and friends. Players can be anyone involved in social situations. 4-14 participants.
$29.95
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Social Communication Disorder Intervention Manual
The Social Communication Disorder Intervention Manual (SCDIM) contains goals, objectives, and interventions for writing a student’s IEP. Intervention strategies are provided for each communication skill on the scale. For pre-referral and classroom intervention, the Social Communication Disorder Intervention Manual is an excellent resource for all educators working in public and private educational settings.
$72.95
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Bridget Flynn Walker Social Anxiety Relief for Teens: A Step-by-Step CBT Guide to Feel Confident and Comfortable in Any Situation
If you're one of millions of teens suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD), you know how it feels to miss out on life because you're avoiding people or situations that you feel like you just can't deal with. This book offers a simple, five-step cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program to help you stop your fears and worries from getting the best of you. You'll learn to recognize your triggers and identify the unhelpful behaviors you use to try to cope with or avoid them now. Then you'll discover ways to slowly and gently challenge yourself to face anxiety-inducing situations, until you gradually increase your comfort levels. Finally, you'll develop the skills you need to build on your progress and work toward mastering your anxiety.
$25.95
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Karen L. Bierman, Mark T. Greenberg, John D. Cole, Kenneth A. Dodge, John E. Lochman, Robert J. McMahon Social And Emotional Skills Training For Children: The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual
This book presents a unique evidence-based group intervention for the 10-15% of children who are challenged by peer difficulties in elementary school. The book features 145 engaging full-colour reproducible handouts, posters, and other tools. In addition to teaching core social skills (participation, communication, cooperation, good sportsmanship, conflict resolution), this book promotes emotional understanding and empathy, self-control, and effective coping with social stressors. Two complete sets of sessions are provided (grades K-2 and 3-5), including step-by-step implementation guidelines.
$60.95
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Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman, Michael J. Strambler, Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl Social and Emotional Learning in Action
This book explores the conditions needed to implement, strengthen, and sustain effective SEL, and identifies paths that schools, districts, and states have taken to create those conditions. Major themes include equity of access to high-quality SEL, promoting interracial understanding in all school interactions, and enhancing the well-being and SEL skills of teachers and school leaders as well as students. Chapters describe exemplary initiatives that infuse SEL into classroom instruction, administrative decision making, school family community partnerships, and teacher training.
$65.95
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M-C Bailey McKenna So Then I... recess strategies to survive and thrive at school
Recess Strategies to Survive and Thrive at School Help students ages 5 to 11 deal with social and emotional stress at recess. Recognize common schoolyard stress, and learn ways of coping. Included are: strategies to deal with group dynamics, multiple ways of calming down, and strategies to make and keep healthy friendships. A tip section for parents, educators and counselors highlights some of the sources of social stress and provides strategies to support young learners in these unstructured settings.
$16.95
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Diane Alber Snippets - A Story About Paper Shapes
Snippets is a story that revels the power of kindness and the beauty of being unique. And it does so though the journey of two different groups of shapes (the polygons and irregular polygons). In Snippets, discover a very powerful message while learning shapes at the same time. Snippet finds himself in a world full of perfect shapes and soon realizes his odd shape doesn't fit in. Despite being put down by his abnormally long top, Snippet's confidence in his unique shape gives him the ability to show how everyone is stronger together then they are apart.
$26.95
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Smart Teens' Guide to Living with Intensity
How to Get More Out of Life and Learning This book is written for preteens and teens who love to learn, although they might not love school. Read about how to understand your intensity, manage perfectionism and self-talk, understand your parents better, and take charge of your education, whether you go to public school, private school, or home-school. Discover yourself as an intense and excitable learner, a creative learner, and a self-directed learner. When you open up the possibilities of how you can learn both in and outside of school, you can live life more fully, intensely, and creatively. This is an excellent companion book to A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens, written by the same author but for parents of gifted adolescents.
$26.95
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Smart Sharks Art of the Deal Conflict Resolution: Card Game
Art of the Deal: Conflict Resolution Tips helps players learn strategic and respectful ways for resolving conflicts effectively. This game teaches players how to strive for win-win solutions where both parties to the conflict achieve many of their goals. This game comes with a foldout that summarizes conflicts that are fair (and likely to result in conflict resolution), and conflicts that are unfair (likely to result in conflict escalation). Players practice using the fair tactics to the scenarios in the cards. This is based on the popular card game 21. Grades 5-8
$24.95
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Peg Dawson, Richard Guare, Colin Guare Smart But Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your "smart but scattered" child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great news: there's a lot you can do to help. The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial "executive skills" - the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized
$25.95 $15.57
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Alex J. Packer, Jon Davis Slaying Digital Dragons: Tips and tools for protecting your body, brain, psyche, and thumbs from the digital dark side
Empower teens to take charge of their digital lives. Without avoiding the dark side of technology, this interactive and comprehensive reference book empowers teens to take charge of their digital life and improve their mental health and well-being. Quizzes and exercises guide readers through the process of evaluating their relationships with their screens, social media, and tech in general. With a frank and humorous approach to a timely topic, award-winning author Alex J. Packer, Ph.D., pulls back the curtain on the hidden aspects of the digital world and shares: Signs that screen time is affecting teens’ bodies, brains, and relationships Tips for protecting their privacy, safety, and reputation Ways social media and algorithms can distort their reality and sense of self Tools for finding life balance and resetting their screen scene Slaying Digital Dragons is a call to action to make the choices that are right for teens. It doesn’t demand ditching smartphones or deactivating social media. Instead, it suggests strategies for playing favorite games and posting on favorite apps, while also doing good in the world and bringing joy and encouragement to others. It invites readers to join the resistance and learn how to thwart the manipulative forces trying to control and profit off their users. And it gives teens what they need to stay safe and take charge of their digital life.
$44.95
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Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child: Student Manual
New Strategies and Perspectives for Teaching Prosocial Skills A clear, concise guide for students that serves as a handy reference and organizer. This can be used with Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child
$20.95
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Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child
Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to elementary school students. This book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching 60 prosocial skills. The widely acclaimed approach is in 8½×11 format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Forms CD included.
$72.95
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Skillstreaming The Adolescent
Skill streaming the Adolescent employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to adolescents. This book provides a complete description of the Skill streaming program, with instructions for teaching 50 prosocial skills. The widely acclaimed approach developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and colleagues, now in 8½×11 format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Now includes forms CD.
$72.95
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Skillstreaming in the Elementary School: Lesson Plans & Activities
Lesson Plans and Activities This comprehensive resource provides the materials needed to sustain skill instruction, enhance students' skill mastery, and most important - to refine skill use for dealing with more complex, real-life situations in and outside of the classroom. The manual features 600 easy-to-use lesson plans and related activities and the accompanying CD contains over 200 printable forms necessary for implementing the lesson plans. Students learn goal setting, problem solving, impulse control, cooperating, anticipating consequences, and thinking aloud. Activities are provided for at least one week of supplementary instruction for each of the 60 skills in the elementary curriculum.
$95.95
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Skillstreaming Elementary School Skills Cards
Convenient 5×3" cue cards designed for student use during group sessions and homework assignments. The cards list the behavioral steps for each of the 60 skills contained in the Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child program. Eight cards are provided for each individual skill, for a total of 480 skill cards.
$49.95
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Skillstreaming Adolescent Skills Cards
Convenient 3x5" cue cards designed for student use during group sessions and homework assignments. The cards list the behavioral steps for each of the 50 skills contained in the Skillstreaming the Adolescent program. Eight cards are provided for each skill (400 total cards).
$49.95
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Eline Snel Sitting Still Like a Frog
Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents) Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware. Included is a 60 minute audio CD with guided meditations. This book can also be used with special needs groups including ASD, FASD, those with Sensory Processing Disorders, Learning and Behavior Disorders to help them learn self-soothing and calming.
$19.95
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Simplifying Reponse to Intervention
Four Essential Guiding Principles The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking. Understand why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then learn how to create a focused RTI model that works.
$37.50
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Sarah Cobbe Simple Autism Strategies for Home and School
Practical Tips, Resources and Poetry Offering a unique overview of a child's point of view of life with autism, this guidebook will help parents and teachers better understand how this condition is experienced in day to day life. Organised by topic for easy reference, it explores the issues that can arise in everyday situations from toilet training to homework. Learning points, situation-specific activities, and further resources offer practical guidance, while discussion tools such as original poetry illustrate the perspectives of children with autism.
$39.95
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Charlene Bearhead, Wilson Bearhead, Chloe Bluebird Mustooch Siha Tooskin Knows the Strength of His Hair
Paul Wahasaypa Siha Tooskin has learned from Ena (his mom) and Ade (his dad) to maintain a strong mind, heart, and spirit. Though starting at a new school can be hard, especially when the kids there have never experienced the values and culture of the Nakota people. Join Paul as Mitoshin (his grandfather) helps remind him how strength of character can be found in the strength of his hair. The Siha Tooskin Knows series uses vivid narratives and dazzling illustrations in contemporary settings to share stories about an 11-year-old Nakota boy.
$11.95
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