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Celebrating accomplishments big & small
Encouraging students to ask for feedback
Encouraging students to ask clarifying questions
Practicing skills that work for the student

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-Teach students how to reflect on their learning.
-Help students understand it's important to struggle/be challenged with learning; that's when connections are being made in the brain.

-Teach students where to find competencies.

-How to ask for help

-Problem solving:  creative solutions; perseverance

-PLP and place to record (portfolios)

-Self assessments

-Time to reflect and look back at previous reflections

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1. Regular self-management check-ins (what do I, the student, have to do today/this week for each class as well as outside of school? Where am I struggling and what do I need to do get on top of things?)

2. Ask a question of the day, whether school related or not, to encourage thought, discussion, and/or expression of some sort

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Review study skills

Identify learner strengths and weaknesses

Identify subjects that will need extra support

Identify resources for support on specific subjects

Grade checking

Creating school/life balance

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-Students being able to communicate what they understand or don't understand
-Feedback on work
-Learning how to manage school and life

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teaching students how to reflect on their learning-effort-etc: start with surveys, move to sentence starters, prompts, eventually ending with open ended questions
*included questions about things affecting their life outside of school

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How to balance and prioritize school work and life.

Teaching the tools to use for self advocacy/reflection and processing of own work, more self independence.

Real life situations or learners perspectives on topics to broaden lens of others to look at things from a different light can help them better reflect on self, surroundings, and their work.

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-What am I learning/understanding?
-Management of self awareness in all aspects. Not just academics.
-Learning to ask for help/clarity when needed.

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-norm setting (what does success look like in a class?)

-goal setting (what do you want to accomplish?)

-time for individual reflection w/ place to record

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Opportunity for teacher guided reflection:
- How you learn best
- How to reflect on Competencies
- Refine skills that can be used in all courses

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Talk about what reflection means, help students identify strengths and areas of focus (things to improve upon). Explore how students learn best, areas of schooling they may feel uncomfortable or anxious, tools or skills they have tried that may or may not have been helpful, thinking "outside the box" of what they think a learner is. Really focusing on strengths, recognizing areas of focus (i.e. "weaknesses")

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-group projects (spend time talking about roles and supporting each other as a team, what is it like to work on a team?)

-planner (or similar) management

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Give language for complex emotions

Sample scenario practice cards - What would you do in this situation?

Encourage positive talk/affirmation/growth mindset speech toward self and others

Deep Breathing

Daily personal/emotional check-ins

Discuss/practice how to demonstrate empathy (walk through examples)

Teach active listening skills

Practice respectfully disagreeing (ask opinionated questions and teach how to politely disagree)

Student interviews/1-on-1 check ins with teacher

We’re Not Really Strangers Game

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-Create responsible decision making and relationship skills through non-academic activities

-Goal setting (what the students need to accomplish during this time and their day in general

-Management skills…

-Making students comfortable in social settings

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Use emotion words frequently, normalize feelings that you AND students feel, create empathy and connections through stories, be vulnerable with others (recognize mistakes), foster relationships by finding connections with similar experiences while recognizing and celebrating differences, creating a safe and brave space within the classroom.

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Week Reflection: "High's & Low's"
Opportunity for conversation
Ask genuine questions

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Conversation etiquette, and how to be part of a group/team environment.

How to stay positive and view situations from different lens' to help process quicker.

Understand one's current state mentally and physically and how that could affect them and others around them through out the day.

Teaching that it is okay to be different from others, its not a bad thing.

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-Back to basics with social/emotional work with kids.
- Role playing/ reflection on situations that may be uncomfortable or new
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-Opportunity to role play social interactions
-Videos with reflections on social situations- what could this person have done
-Tips/skills to manage stress inside and out of school
-Partner and group work opportunities- roles in the group, how to deal with

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Talk about mental health openly

Develop a work/life balance

Develop strategies to decompress

Identify other viewpoints

Encourage sharing feelings

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-Develop awareness of self and others through group work-adults need to model how members can work together (how to handle a group member who's not doing any work or is monopolizing the discussion, etc.)

-Learn how to navigate social interactions (relationship skills, non-verbals, etc.)

-Awareness of emotions and how to manage them. Stress management, practice calming techniques.

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-modeling + repetition of executive functioning skills

-encouraging productive struggle

-goal setting

-planner (or similar) management

-time management

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Organization with both things and technology, time management skills, skills to limit technology to a health amount both inside and outside of school, advocacy skills (speaking up, asking for what you need), creating small, learning how to identify and practice small habits to reach larger goals.

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-Use past situations to help guide future decisions.
-A lot of similar situations to SEL

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Get the students who struggle with this to succeed
Show students the pros to using executive functioning
Show students how they already use executive functioning without knowing it

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Teach Skills for Success:

Planning

Organization

Time Management

Task Initiation

Working memory

Attention

Self Control

Perseverance

Flexibility

SMART goals

Mock circumstance cards - what would I do in this situation?

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-Making to-do lists: prioritizing items on list
-Utilizing planner to stay organized
-Information for parents about struggling/failing
-Proper posting protocols for Schoology

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Teach students how to use a planner/calendar

Teach appropriate use of technology

Teach students how to use basic computer functions
(spreadsheets/docs)

Planning study time

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Stick to a schedule
How to create attainable goals
How to function without a device

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Social Media education
- How to be safe/ kind

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-Practice skills, repeatedly; how to use a planner, study for tests, write papers, organize paper and digital assignments-model thought process and consistency.
-Help students understand what 'executive functioning' skills are.

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Let them give a mini presentation to the class on something they care about

Give model questions to ask and practice answering them together

Look around the room - ask a question about something you see, explore the answer as an individual/group/class

Observe a random picture - what do you see?

Play 20 ?s as a class

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Encourage curiosity
Create lessons/activities that encompass choice and what the students are curious about

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-what questions do you have? (ex. 3 Act Math activities)

-pushing the question “why?”

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-Teach kids how to ask, Why? (like when they were little) and ways to find answers.

-Teach them to find supporting evidence for answers they discover.  Is what they read or heard actually accurate?

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-Authentic Research-but using valid resources
-Learning how to ask more in depth questions- not just give me the answer questions
-Time to do inquiry

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Find connections between content, and interests of students

Teach students how to ask good questions

Show students the connections between content knowledge and "the real world"

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Trying new skills, topics, experiences. Explore interests that give students a "spark" and finding other similar topics that might interest them. Hands-on experiences, trying experiments without first "googling" them (just see what happens if...) Hearing talks from or meeting experts in a certain field of interest.

“if you could create a class on ANY topic, what would it be?”

“If school could look differently, what would you want it to look like?”

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-Use middle school “natural inquiry” to guide various activities.
- Use models/games to create new ideas for exploration.
- Let students guide the learning both individually/as a group.

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Work time in like groups according to content area; have students help each other with questions

Have “above and beyond”  worksheets for kids who are looking for something to do

Send kids who need lots of help to focused FLEX times

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Review grades regularly

Set academic goals

Identify challenge subjects

Identify resources for academic help

Teach time management skills to students

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The ability to visit with a teacher they might need additional support from. Coaching on organizing assignments and prioritizing / breaking down assignments into smaller chunks. Assisting in limiting recreational screen time during academic support.

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Looks different for everyone
Play games around skills that students need support with
Feedback and reflection

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-Utilize as needs of individual students.
- Build on strengths and use weaknesses as motivation.
- Give opportunities to explore new topics

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-planner management

-time management

-check your resources (teachers, notes, textbook, peers, etc.)

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Strategies for prioritizing work
Finding a planner/list system that works for them
Prioritizing work for academic success
Letting students help each other
Time management skills

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-Have students create “To Do’ lists or goals for the class/day.

-Teach students ‘how’ to read directions/text and that it’s important to read them more than once.-Have students go through thought process out loud as group.  Practice understanding directions by reading directions about how to play a new game.

-Provide enrichment opportunities.

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How to contact a teacher and get the help you need
How to access IC/ Schoology/ Google Classroom etc..
How to monitor grades
How to keep track of your schedule (Aday/ Bday/ Band/ Electives/ Lunch/ Early release/ etc)
-Set alarms
-reminders
-look for updates
-Read messages

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School-wide surveys
Standardized testing...NWEA MAP

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Equity, identity work

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Counselor Presentations: Career exploration, Internet use/safety, Self assessments, Bullying, Diversity, Mindfulness, etc.