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Teaching Tools to Support Social Emotional Learning
You have the power right now to create a community of support for yourself and those you help through your digital device. During these emotionally fragile times, when we reach out to others we feel more positive, grounded, and supported—and we share these benefits with others, as well. Your virtual connection could be the best part of someone’s day—and it may be the best part of yours, too. For virtual tools to help you support social emotional learning, check out the free read aloud and downloadable resources below.
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While our deeper work is for individuals with social learning challenges (autism spectrum levels 1 and 2, ADHD, twice exceptional, social communication disorders, etc. or no diagnosis) a subset of our work is being adopted into mainstream classrooms and workplaces around the world to improve social-emotional learning for all.
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Social Thinking is proud to provide an extensive collection of free articles devoted to helping individuals build stronger social awareness and social functioning using the Social Thinking Methodology.
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You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition
Boost kids’ observation and clue interpretation skills in social situations. Expanded and revised, this award-winning 2nd edition provides an all-new structured approach to observation, illustrations that reflect a broader range of inclusion and diversity in characters, and lessons for deeper learning.
2-Storybook Set | The Zones of Regulation Series
These two award-winning storybooks provide engaging social scenarios and strategies to help children at developmental ages 5-11 explore how lessons from The Zones of Regulation curriculum book can be used at school and at home. Kids learn along with the characters that they can manage how they feel by using tools to meet their goals.
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Hey Awesome: A Book for Kids About Anxiety, Courage, and Already Being Awesome
‘Hey Awesome’ explains how the same brain that can make children feel anxious sometimes, also comes with amazing strengths. It also includes powerful tips for children on how they can manage their anxiety. First, we let them know how awesome they are, then we give them what they need to feel it for themselves.
Hey Warrior: A Book for Kids About Anxiety
Empower children to manage their anxiety by learning that it comes from a place of protective strength within their brains—the amygdala—a tiny but fierce personal “warrior” that prepares us to fight or flee danger, even when we don’t need or want its protection!
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of the rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learning.
Tenacity in Children: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success
Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life.
The Road to Regulation Poster | The Zones of Regulation Series
Adapted from the colorful layout in The Regulation Station storybook, this 24” x 18” poster is a flexible, real-time reminder of the four steps needed to (1) recognize your feelings, (2) identify your Zone, (3) choose a tool, and (4) use the tool to help regulate your feelings experienced across different situations.
Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Ready to start teaching The Zones of Regulation to children at developmental ages 5-11? This bundle includes The Zones of Regulation curriculum, two brand new storybooks, and a multisensory regulation strategy card deck, which includes over 50 direct instruction tool cards.
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Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series
A choice rich, portable, strategy card deck to help adolescents ages 11+ metacognitively explore and practice over 50 self-regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings.
The Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try for Kids | Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect
A choice rich, portable, strategy card deck to help kids ages 5-10 metacognitively explore and practice over 50 self-regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings.
Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | A Set of 26 Social Thinking® Teaching Frameworks
The social world is vast and complex, kids are complicated, and there’s so much information! Here’s where you’ll find the best of the Social Thinking® Methodology distilled into a two-set collection of our 26 core teaching frameworks for helping social learners unpack and figure out how to navigate the social world in a concrete, visual way.
The Zones of Regulation
A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
We Thinkers! (Ages 4-7)
Our premier social emotional learning series for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop foundational social competencies.
Superflex (Ages 7-10+)
Dive into the foundational products in our Superflex series to teach children the fundamentals of self-regulation and give them a world of characters to make social learning fun.
Tweens & Teens
Help tweens and teens navigate their social worlds, develop strong social competencies, deal with flirting and dating, and manage social anxiety.
Young Adult & Adult
Learn strategies to foster social competencies, relationship development, and independent living skills while helping individuals experience deeper well-being.
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