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Behavior/Social-Emotional Learning
SENSITIVE SUPPORTS FOR STUDENTS WHO HURT
Promoting your students’ social and emotional well-being has always been important—but as schools reopen this fall, it’s never been more critical to provide trauma-sensitive social-emotional and behavioral supports.
On the next few pages, you’ll find expert-developed resources to help you support students as school and life resume after COVID-19 closures. Learn now to integrate trauma-sensitive teaching practices, support grieving students, promote positive behavior, and teach key social-emotional skills your students can use to cope with their challenges.
$39.95 | Stock #: 21202-54357 | December 2021 | approx. 200 pages | 8 ½ x 11 | paperback | ISBN 978 1 68125 435 7
The Social–Emotional Learning Toolbox
Practical Strategies to Support All Students
By Kathy Perez, Ed.D.
COMING SOON
Strong social-emotional skills help students succeed in the classroom and beyond—but many teachers report that they lack the tools and time to effectively support social-emotional learning (SEL). Help is here with The Social–Emotional Learning Toolbox, a guide that shows K–5 teachers how to infuse their existing curriculum and routines with high-quality, evidence-based SEL instruction. Created by a seasoned educator with three decades of experience, this engaging, research-supported guidebook is filled with classroom-tested tips and techniques that help any teacher make SEL an integral part of each school day. You’ll learn how to design effective classroom environments and lessons with easy-toimplement, inclusive SEL supports for every student, whether they have ongoing behavior and learning challenges or just need a little extra help. With engaging and unique strategies and numerous online printable tools and worksheets, you’ll help your students reduce acting-out behaviors, strengthen relationships, and develop critical skills like self-discipline and empathy.
DISCOVER HOW TO: • Build self-regulation skills in students so they can manage their emotions and be ready to learn • Help students develop emotional intelligence so they can understand and express their feelings • Create a warm, caring, and inclusive classroom atmosphere • Strengthen executive functioning skills to boost social and academic competence • Develop positive, trusting relationships with students • Explicitly teach and model empathy in your classroom • Promote a growth mindset to improve students’ productivity and confidence • Teach mindfulness practices to help students relax, maintain attention, and focus on the present moment ONLINE MATERIALS: You’ll get a complete package of more than 60 forms, worksheets, handouts, checklists, and printable classroom signs for supporting your students’ social-emotional skills.
“I cannot recommend this book enough for educators.“
—Amy Hanken, M.Ed., Special Education Supervisor, Heartland Area Education Agency
Supporting Students and Staff After COVID-19
By Jen Alexander, M.A., NCC, SB-RPT
NEW
When schools reopen after COVID-19 closures, both students and staff will have experienced months of unprecedented challenges. Your elementary school will need a compassionate, intentional, trauma-sensitive plan for easing the back-to-school transition—and that’s what you’ll find in this practical new ebook from acclaimed trauma expert Jen Alexander.
You’ll get hands-on, adaptable guidance on designing and implementing a traumasensitive transition plan that puts relationships first, prioritizes emotional and social supports, breaks down barriers to learning, and empowers everyone in your learning community. And you’ll put your plan in action with more than 50 downloadable resources, including journal pages, handouts, activities, planning forms, posters, and professional development PowerPoint slides. Packed with the how-to information every educator will need, this must-have guide is your key to making a thoughtful, trauma-sensitive transition plan—and creating a learning environment that meets everyone’s needs better than ever.
$9.95 | PDF Stock #: 21202-54500 | ePub Stock #: 21202-54494 | 2021 | 112 pages | PDF ISBN 978-1-68125-450-0 | ePub ISBN 978-1-68125-449-4
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Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools
Your Guide to Creating Safe, Supportive Learning Environments for All Students
By Jen Alexander, M.A., NCC, SB-RPT
Drawing on her experience as a school counselor, trainer, and mother, Jen Alexander delivers a comprehensive framework for building a supportive, responsive, and trauma-sensitive school environment. You’ll start with an evidence-based introduction to the impact of trauma on a child’s development, attachment, and behavior. Then you’ll get an effective multi-tier system of support (MTSS) for developing a trauma-sensitive learning environment, including universal strategies (Tier 1) and more intensive interventions (Tier 2 and Tier 3) for students who need more support.
DISCOVER HOW TO: • Implement universal instructional strategies that foster safety, connection, regulation, and learning • Use special supports and coaching when universal strategies aren’t enough • Collaborate effectively with families and colleagues • Incorporate restorative discipline practices • Create a personalized self-care plan to reduce the effects of job-related stress PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Creative activities for teachers, powerful case stories, sample dialogues and scripts, reflection and brainstorming worksheets, downloadable forms, handouts for use with students
$29.95 | Stock #: 21202-52452 | 2019 | 248 pages | 7 x 10 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-245-2
$36.95 | Stock # 21202-54579 | 2021 | 240 pages | 7 x 10 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-457-9
$39.95 | Stock #: 21202-54197 | 2020 | 296 pages | 8 ½ x 11 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-419-7
The Grieving Student
A Guide for Schools, Second Edition
By David Schonfeld, M.D., FAAP, & Marcia Quackenbush, M.S., MFT, CHES
NEW
With the second edition of this bestselling book, school staff will have the practical guidance they need to provide sensitive support to grieving students of all ages and their families. Author David Schonfeld—a renowned expert on childhood bereavement and school crisis—partners with family therapist Marcia Quackenbush to guide school teams through a child’s experience of grief and illuminate the most powerful ways to make a positive difference.
WHAT’S NEW: Expanded online study guide with slides for in-service learning • Expanded focus on all school personnel, from administrators to support staff • New chapters on suicide loss and providing support in settings outside of K–12 schools • New and expanded information on social media, school crisis and trauma, supporting children with disabilities, school policies, memorialization, and more • Reflection prompts throughout the book • and more
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The Re-Set Process
Trauma-Informed Behavior Strategies
By Dyane Lewis Carrere, M.Ed., with Wynne Kinder, M.Ed.
“Implementing the Re-Set Process and associated practices have been game-changers for many of our students with
trauma.”—Angela Marley, School Principal, Denver Elementary School, Cocalico School District, PA
When students with histories of trauma struggle with self-regulation and challenging behaviors, traditional interventions often fall short. That’s why the teachers on your staff need this reader-friendly guide to the revolutionary ReSet Process, a four-step, neuroscience-based approach to improving behavioral success for children in Grades K–8 with a history of trauma. This comprehensive guide to the Re-Set Process shows educators how to interpret students’ behavior through a trauma-informed lens, implement the Re-Set Process with clear step-by-step instructions, address challenging behavior proactively and reactively, build students’ regulation skills with a wealth of activities and exercises, integrate essential self-care strategies into the school day, and more. Practical materials include case studies, insightful Notes From the Field, and a package of more than 30 online downloads, including planning forms, blank templates, activity sheets, and a book study guide.
Unresolved conflicts in schools build barriers to learning—and your solution is this effective 50-minute mediation technique for Grades K–12. School psychologist Ondine Gross guides you through implementation of a teacher-student mediation program, conducting mediations, and collecting data to determine effectiveness. You’ll also learn how to mediate conflicts among students, staff members and parents. By Ondine Gross, M.S., Ed.M.
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING— THE FUN AND EASY WAY
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Teach social-emotional competence— the foundation of school and social success—with the Strong Kids™ curricula! Developed by a team of education and mental health experts, Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life.
Each curriculum: $42.95
2016 | 8 ½ x 11 | paperback
Easy to fit into your schedule.
Each lesson takes about 20 minutes and can be broken into smaller chunks.
Comes with everything you need:
adaptable scripts, creative class activities, and printable worksheets and handouts.
Teaches crucial skills
your students will use forever: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and more.
“In a world where children see so much that’s negative, it’s so refreshing that we as a school can offer them a way to see the positive.“
—Joy Deates, Positive Behavior Support Facilitator, Central Point Elementary School, Oregon
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Merrell’s Strong Start—Pre-K and Merrell’s Strong Start—Grades K–2 by Sara A. Whitcomb, Ph.D., & Danielle M. Parisi Damico, Ph.D. Pre-K: Stock #: 21202-79697 | ISBN 978-1-59857-969-7 Grades K–2: Stock #: 21202-79703 | ISBN 978-1-59857-970-3 Merrell’s Strong Kids—Grades 3–5 and Grades 6–8; Merrell’s Strong Teens—Grades 9–12, by Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann, Ph.D., Laura L. Feuerborn, Ph.D., Barbara A. Gueldner, Ph.D., & Oanh K. Tran, Ph.D. Grades 3–5: Stock #: 21202-79536 | ISBN 978-1-59857-953-6 Grades 6–8: Stock #: 21202-79543 | ISBN 978-1-59857-954-3 Grades 9–12: Stock #: 21202-79550 | ISBN 978-1-59857-955-0
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Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt
Strategies for Your Classroom
By Susan E. Craig, Ph.D.
“Guides teachers to think about and respond to behavior in ways that allow the child to feel calmer, more focused and more connected to
adults.“—Lesley Koplow, Director, Center for Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street
How can you promote the academic and social success of students exposed to family violence and neglect—and help them build resilience and hope? This practical guide gives you dozens of simple, creative ideas—easy to use in any classroom, on any budget—that show you how to:
• Adapt instruction to address learning characteristics of children exposed to trauma • Guide students in literacy skills, problem-solving, selfregulation, and more • Use positive behavior supports so children can stay calm and focused on learning • Help students build supportive relationships with peers and teachers • Provide predictable routines that instill a sense of safety and control • Reduce the effects of “compassion fatigue” • Directly teach social skills during everyday routines Includes realistic sample scenarios and challenging What Would You Do? quizzes to help you respond skillfully in difficult situations.
Help students & families with positive behavior support
Prevent-TeachReinforce
By Glen Dunlap, Ph.D., Rose Iovannone, Ph.D., Donald Kincaid, Ed.D., Kelly Wilson, B.S., Kathy Christiansen, M.S., & Phillip S. Strain, Ph.D.
Solve serious behavior challenges in K–8 classrooms with this practical, user-friendly guide to the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) model. Developed by highly respected experts on positive behavior support, this research-proven model gives your school team a step-by-step blueprint for reducing problems unresolved by typical behavior management strategies. You’ll get explicit guidance on implementing all five steps of PTR: 1) teaming and goal-setting, 2) collecting data, 3) conducting a PTR Functional Behavioral Assessment, 4) developing a PTR behavior intervention plan, and 5) monitoring progress and making data-based decisions. Case examples illustrate components of PTR, and the forms (also available online) make implementation simple.
$49.95 | Stock #: 21202-50847 | 2019 | 216 pages | 8 ½ x 11 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-084-7
PreventTeach-Reinforce for Families
By Glen Dunlap, Ph.D., Phillip S. Strain, Ph.D., Janice K. Lee, M.Ed., BCBA, Jaclyn D. Joseph, M.S.W., BCBA, Christopher Vatland, Ph.D., & Lise Fox, Ph.D.
With the Prevent-TeachReinforce for Families (PTR-F) model in this accessible guidebook, you can use the proven PTR approach with families to help them prevent behavior challenges in children ages 2–10, teach proactive communication and social skills, and reinforce positive behavior. You’ll discover how to take on the role of PTR-F facilitator and meet each family’s unique needs through a clear 5-step process, from initiating the process with the family to monitoring behavioral data together. Printable forms and extended case examples guide you through the PTR-F steps and bring the process to life.
$44.95 | Stock #: 21202-79789 | 2017 | 240 pages | 8 ½ x 11 | paperback ISBN 978-1-59857-978-9
